Garden Features
Garden Size
3551
m2
Number of Plants
102000
Plants
Number of Guests
4000
Annually
Number of Species
430
Plant species
ABOUT THE FRAGRANCE GARDEN
Lošinj is an island with an especially beautiful fragrance! The Fragrance Island Garden showcases Lošinj's fragrant wealth in one place
3551
m2
The Garden is designed after the fragrant paradisiacal landscapes of the island. Over 250 native fragrant plant species grow in the Garden, scenting the Lošinj-Cres archipelago. Besides the Adriatic, Lošinj is also an island washed by every sea in the world, thanks to the famous Lošinj seafarers who brought back unknown plants from distant overseas voyages.
More than 100 of these non-native plant species complete the fragrant garden picture. The garden's plant habitats are framed by dry stone walls – "gromače" – built in the tradition of island folk architecture. From the garden's rest and relaxation spots, a wonderful view stretches all the way to the majestic Velebit mountain.
GARDEN, ISLAND, PARADISE
Since Genesis, the GARDEN has been a sacred place simulating heavenly Paradise within an earthly setting. In the garden, as in an untouched natural landscape, the harmony of shapes and colors soothes our senses. And if the plants also smell sweetly fragrant, are we not in the antechamber of Paradise!? Every Adriatic island is a garden bounded by the sea. If the Island is a Garden, and the Garden is the antechamber of Paradise, then the island of LOŠINJ is the fragrant antechamber of Paradise.
102000
Plants
GARDEN CHRONICLE
The idea of a fragrance garden was conceived subconsciously back in girlhood. It budded on 15.12.2003, when the restoration began of neglected, littered land in the Bukovica area, above my family home. It blossomed in July 2005, when the Fragrance Island Garden opened, an oasis of native and cultivated fragrant island plants. Since then, it has flourished every summer with more than
4000
Visitors annually
OTHERS ABOUT US AND WITH US
The Fragrance Island Garden has received awards and numerous accolades from Croatia and abroad. Media outlets - from specialist magazines to leading TV and radio stations - have covered the Garden and its events. However, the Garden's success would not be complete without the wholehearted support of our fragrant helpers and partners: the Mali Lošinj Tourist Board and the hotel company "Jadranka" as well as friends such as the eco-association Blue World.
430
Plant species
Fragrance Features
The Fragrance Island Garden is not an ordinary botanical garden, nor a garden of medicinal herbs. As its name says, it is a garden of fragrant island plants: from native species like sage (locally called "kuš") or immortelle (locally called "magriž"), to naturalized plants like aloe or lavender, brought long ago from distant shores by the famous Lošinj seafarers.
More than two hundred plant species, mostly fragrant: from creepers and climbers to small shrubs, bushes, and trees.
Native species are displayed growing in conditions similar to those of their wild, often sparse island habitats, and in the same naturally-selected harmony with one another. Traditional island fruit trees (olive, fig, grapevine) are planted in a characteristic orchard arrangement, with fragrant naturalized plants as found in Lošinj gardens. Garden sections include: a typical Lošinj coastal landscape, old and young olive groves, a fig grove, a citrus grove, rocky terrain, a lavender plantation, and a vegetable garden of fragrant island vegetables.
Fragrance Features
The garden cottage imitates the traditional Lošinj suburban style of small agricultural buildings from the early last century. The garden sections are delicately bordered by dry stone walls. Many stone and wooden installations complete the fragrant diversity.
Garden Residents: Karli and Friends
Spending time amid the fragrant abundance of Lošinj plants, spiced with the winds of the Adriatic Sea, is loved not only by people but by other creatures too. Goldfinches and turtledoves, geckos and tortoises, butterflies and bees, bumblebees and crickets often visit the Garden, and many have made their home here. The best known and most beloved permanent residents are the little donkey Karli and his friend.
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