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The University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana was established as a Garden of native flora and has been taking care of the protection of domestic flora from the very beginning. In the cases of some species, we consider their cultivation in ex-situ conditions from the very beginning of the garden. Just as individual leaders and their gardeners discovered the species in the wild, they were then brought into the garden. Their successful cultivation in ex-situ conditions then led these species to exchanges with gardens across Europe. First, exchanges were made with personal correspondence between the gardens, and later with a printed list of seeds - Index seminum. By following the lists of seeds of these gardens, we can find out in a few years how successful they were in growing plants ordered in Ljubljana. The species that originated in Ljubljana appeared in the lists of garden seeds in Europe a few years later. The University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana, with its species Pastinaca sativa var. fleischmanni known for the fact that the species has been preserved only in the University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana, has disappeared in nature. In 2011, we successfully reintroduced it to Castle Hill. It also appears that from some specimens growing in the wild, populations of plants have emerged in the garden whose original populations have disappeared in the wild.
