The Jardí Botànic, like all public and private spaces in our country, has been managed in an exceptional way, taking on only a very specific list of jobs and tasks and reducing maintenance to a minimum.

As the director Jaime Güemes tells us about the activity that has been maintained inside, the usual staff of 15 gardeners who work every day to have the Jardí Botànic as we know it, has been reduced at certain times to just four people in charge of work such as watering, maintenance of enclosed spaces such as nurseries or greenhouses, or the supervision of possible breakdowns not located or specific problems in the collections, such as the breakage of a glass or a branch. We have also continued with the pest prevention program, which is being developed in collaboration with the Universitat Politècnica de València.

But we also wanted to maintain an outward activity, to tell everything that was happening in the Jardí, giving, besides information, a kind of narrative about the nature that awaits us all in Quart Street when everything is over, and that can be a hope and a reason for illusion. In this sense, not only have all the social networks been active and the Espores magazine has continued to be updated, but the public has also been helped to identify all those plants that have accompanied them in this confinement at home or on the balconies, and which they are now finding on their first walks, through the initiative #lesplantespelseunom in which our botanists and botanists give a name to the vegetation that the followers send us a photo of. In addition, #UnaFinestraAlBotanic has been opened and each day is being dedicated to an outstanding species that symbolize the spring that has made its way into the Jardí. At the Jardí Botànic collections of plants from all over the world are displayed, maintaining a canopy, arranging the species to offer a scientific and informative discourse, and all this means being present for our idea of a continuous garden. An abandonment would mean that nature would advance at its own pace, the collections most adapted to our climate, such as the Mediterranean or the Canary Islands, would take time to be altered, but the most sensitive ones, such as the tropical, carnivorous, ferns or orchids would begin to suffer deterioration processes that, with the usual maintenance, can be avoided.

Everything is being prepared to see the corridors, benches and greenhouses once again occupied by people enjoying a unique university space.