Botaniska, Gothenburg Botanical Garden
Gothenburg
Full of activities and culture
You can go on guided tours of different parts of the Botanical Garden, see exhibitions on botany and art, join activities for children and attend different cultural events. Follow the small paths, where you’ll pass colourful flower arrangements that integrate with the glistening ponds and rushing waterfalls. Admire the very special aesthetics of the Perennial Garden, the Herb Garden and the Rock Garden as you walk around them. You will also notice different types of art that have nature as their common source of inspiration.
Everything for your garden
There is a wide range of botanical and horticultural products to browse in the Botanical Garden shop. In addition to seeds, bulbs and plants, you’ll find almost everything you need to care for and develop your garden. The restaurant AnyDay is found in the middle of the garden where you can enjoy lunch, sandwiches, coffee and delicious pastries.
Gothenburg Botanical Garden
Gothenburg Botanical Garden houses 16, plant species on hectares and is one of the largest botanical gardens in Europe and even considered one of the best.
The scientific collections are displayed in beautiful garden spaces uniting expertise and beauty. The garden’s first director was the famous explorer and botanist Carl Skottsberg.
The gardens plant collections derive mainly from numerous plant collecting expeditions worldwide. The collection of wild bulbs and tubers are of world class and ablaze with colour in the Bulb Garden, Spring Meadow and in the award-winning Rock Garden during the spring. Whilst most botanical gardens in Europe have been laid out in flat areas in towns, Gothenburg Botanical Garden was created in a nature reserve which is naturally hilly, providing a varied landscape. Here the boundaries between wildlife and the cultivated garden are often diffuse. This is particularly noticeable in the rock garden with its species from around the world. Here you´ll also find an area where you can study Scandinavian plants. One of the main purposes of this collection is to preserve plants in danger of extinction due to environmental chan
Göteborgs Botaniska Trädgård
Göteborgs Botaniska Trädgård, which opened in , has a total area of hectares and is home to around 16, plant species, of which about 4, species are kept in the greenhouses. The park area covers 40 hectares, and the total area also extends over hectares of the adjacent nature reserve Änggårdsbergen.
In this part of the botanical garden there is a scientific collection of trees and shrubs consisting of about different species with about 6, trees and shrubs. The collection is divided into three different sections according to trees and shrubs from America, Asia and Europe and covers an area of 15 hectares.
In addition, on the edge of the nature reserve is the so-called Vitsippsdalen, which is part of the botanical garden and which was once the reason for establishing the botanical garden where it is. This is a piece of preserved western Swedish primeval forest where nature is left to itself. In spring, the ground is covered with the flowers of anemones, the symbol of the botanical garden.
The design of the botanical garden
A particularly impressive example of a successful design within the botanical garden in Gothenburg is the rock garden, which w
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