"Welcome to the Jungle..."

For the last day of my trip we went to Botania (Botanic Garden of the University of Eastern Finland). I never had visited botanical garden so it was exciting to see some exotic plants (and imagine to be in the jungle).



I'm used to see mailboxes near shops or other buildings so this one seemed so out of place and sad standing alone in the heaps of snow.



Tropical part of Botanias greenhouse.





Took some photos outside and thanks to drastic temperature change my pictures looked for a while like I was in sauna.



Lots and lots of coffee


I was so excited to see some cocoa beans.
(Think I love chocolate little too much.)

In the summer Botania has freely flying butterflies but middle of February there were only some cocoons to remind of them.





If you look closely there's few grapefruits hiding among the lemons.



Mother-in-Law's Cushion (Have always wondered who named it.)




One of the few blooming flowers in the garden was Bougainvillea.


Botanias oldest plant 1972 sowed Opuntia ficus-indica.

Even though there weren't butterflies and just a few blooming flowers to look at it was fun to spend a day with Sanna taking pictures and goofing around. Evening was spend, surprise surprise, eating junkfood and watching Supernatural (overdosed with 30 something episodes we watched during the week :D ).