There was a time when our continent looked totally different. Take a look around: imagine looking in every direction and seeing nothing but ice.
Under those conditions, even plants try to find more hospitable places to grow. And so it can happen that a plant that is native to the Himalayas can find itself next to a species from the Alps, and discover that it has a double that lives on the other side of the world.
That’s what happened with the Himalayan Edelweiss, which are very similar to ours, the Leontopodium alpinum.
If you are impressed by the red flowers in this rock garden, have a closer look: they are the blooms of Potentilla nepalensis, a plant originally from Nepal and one of the few in this botanical garden to flaunt red flowers.
