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The Tallinn Zoo has really beautiful roof covers at the snow leopards’ enclosure. The shelters are covered with turf and stonecrop with bright yellow flowers that catch the eye from far away, coming up from the goats’ enclosures. The common or biting stonecrop (Sedum acre) is a great plant for dry places, a favourite in rock gardens, suitable on a green roof. In nature it is abundant on alvar-type limestone areas and sandy soils. The stonecrop flowers everywhere in nature now, before its taller relatives. The best-known of these, the orpine, starts flowering only in the second half of summer.

The anniversary of the Tallinn Zoo will also be celebrated in the later half of summer but one star event of the jubilee year – the completion of the snow leopards’ enclosure – already attracts people to the zoo. Besides the snow leopards their neighbours the mountain goats are worth a visit too. It is summertime, with baby animals everywhere, goat kids sheltering behind their mothers...