Left up. The actual view of the fish pond and part of the botanical garden collection.   

Right up. A close up view of the fish pond with some aquatic plants.

Left down. Two flower buds of a unidentified pendent Masdevallia species.

Right down. A natural hybrid from the collection, made between Masdevallia vargasii and Masdevallia guttulata.

Setting up:

• Summer house. Made of wood with a clay tiled roof. It is a shelter in the midst of the garden.
• Nursery. You can see seeds and plantlets of useful native plants and trees whose are being looked after and protected against the sun until they will be ready to be planted in the garden.
• Apiary. We have hives of native stingless bees what produce a very delicious and nutritive honey.
• Greenhouse. A large growing of plants in pots and slabs such us orchids and aroids.
• Fish pond. We have tilapia fish growing together aquatic plants.
• Collection.

Collection

Our collection is composed for more than 4000 useful plants in its most ornamentals leading by orchids and aroids followed by a considerable number of plants from another families that grow together with: ornamental shrubs; fruit plants; timber trees; aquatic and medicinal plants whose landscape embankments, a small forest and a fish pond.

See Species List

Name's origin: Named in honour to my father (Marco M. Jiménez V.), by his twenty four years of recognized career of work in the research and culture of the Zamora Chinchipe orchids.

Mission

Aid to preserve by means of ex situ conservation, samples of useful native plants of the Zamora-Chinchipe flora, threatened due the deforestation and overcollection in their habitat. Specimens that will be serving as a bank seed from every species for future projects of large scale production, research and addition to contribute through the design and embellish, the recreation and distraction of local and foreign tourists.

Administration

Mr. Marco Marcelo Jiménez León

PRESIDENT

Dr. Marco M. Jiménez V.

VICEPRESIDENT, HORTICULTURE AND DESIGN OF JBMJ

Marianita de J. León. R.

TRUSTEE

Other Important Growers in Southern Ecuador:

A detailed description of other prominent cultivations from Southern Ecuador.

Leonardo Bustamante

Barrio La Tebaida Bajo

Loja, province of Loja

Distinguished orchid researcher and grower from Loja. Leonardo has been growing orchids since 1995 approximately, specializing in pleurothallids and another cool-growing genera. At this moment he is contributing to the Dutch government in a project of the Universidad Técnica de Loja, from which is also teacher. 

Mr. Oswaldo Jiménez

Sevilla de Oro y Avenida del Ejercito

Zamora, Zamora Chinchipe

Oswaldo Jiménez, brother of Marco Jiménez, has been growing orchids since 1990. Since that year he has designed a small garden composed by ornamental plants from several families such us: begonias, anthuriums, African violets and orchids.

Refugio Ecológico “Tzanka”  (see website below)