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The Tres Pins Nursery is located north-west of the mountain of Montjuic, where the land has been used and terraced slopes dedicated to the reproduction of plants for landscaping Barcelona.

In the oldest part there are greenhouses, umbracles spaces and determined, and the new part there are large terraces for plant stocks and plots dedicated to experimentation. The search of grass species with low water requirements and varieties of roses that fit well in the city are examples.

The Tres Pins Nursery plants produce about 225,000 / year shrubs and perennials from cuttings and seeds, such as pittosporum, Crassula, Ivy, Asparagus and Japanese Privet. There are also two tunnels: one for producing plants, and the other to keep stocks.

A nursery garden

The new, more extensive, has a regular and orderly structure that was climbing up the mountain.

A wide road makes zigzags between the terraces storage plant, and topped with very large grass-covered slopes, where trees grow varied species.

The slopes of trees and potted plants that fill the terraces offer a lively and colorful show.

The Garden of Petra Kelly

Towards the middle of the new part is the Garden of Petra Kelly (founder of the German ecologist Greens). Going to the right, there is a small ball with a terracotta female figure embracing it. It was placed here on the Earth Day 1993 behind it and planted the tree, Kelly's favorite one cherry.

Just in front there is a small stone monument dedicated to the sculptor Joseph Beuys, German that incorporate ecological principles in their work. Last monolith there is an oak and next to one of the most valuable trees by age and rarity of the Tres Pins Nursery: a Melaleuca nesophila about 500 years ago.

sustainable irrigation

The water network has been replaced by water from groundwater pumped up from that collection point there at the height of Liceu. The nursery is the point of storage and distribution of water for irrigation of other parks and gardens of Montjuïc.

vegetation

The variety of species is then stored in the huge green spaces intended for Barcelona. It also emphasizes the vegetation "landscaping" the nursery.

In the oldest part there are large Canary Island date palms (Phoenix canariensis) of ailanthus (Ailanthus altissima), mulberry (Morus alba), laurel (Laurus nobilis), acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia), cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) and elm (Ulmus pumila). There are two trees: an Ulmus sieboldii and Rhus typhyna, and its dimensions, a Pittosporum (Pittosporum tobira) downright gigantic.

The trees sloping parterres of the new nursery is a good example of that is the streets of Barcelona, ​​and the parks and gardens of the city. Thus, this part is rich in stone pines (Pinus pinea) and white pines (Pinus halepensis), oaks (Quercus ilex), rosewood (Tipuana types), pagoda trees (Sophora japonica), bananas (Platanus X hispanica), Prunus cerasifera atropurpurea, willows (Salix babylonica), hackberry (Celtis australis), acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia) and Ginkgo biloba, among many others.

history

The Tres Pins Nursery is named for three very old pine trees that were in the area of ​​Montjuïc where there is now the current municipal nursery. In the early twentieth century, this place was a picnic area called the Fountain of Three Pines the fountain that still flows into the viver-, where families gather to spend a day outdoors or celebrate festivals, as the burial of the sardine. Around the 20s it created a space for providing Barcelona plant for the Universal Exhibition of 1929. Later he became the first municipal nursery dedicated to producing plants for the green areas of the city and is currently the sole remaining in Barcelona
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