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Closed for the off-season, reopening in april 2026.Here you can botanize among books, plants, seeds and other plant-related items. We strive for our products to be locally crafted, fair trade and eco-labelled.Please note that due to the renovation of the greenhouses, a temporary gift shop can be found in the southern part of the garden, close to the entrance from Östervångsvägen. Welcome!
https://www.botan.lu.se/en/cafe-and-giftshop/gift-shop - 2025-12-17
Plants outdoors The greenhouse Art and history Map of the garden
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Thanks to fantastic donors, foundations, Lund University and the Statens Fastighetsverk, several functions will now be improved in Botan. It is mainly the Palm house that will get a new look and the environment will be improved for both employees and visitors. The environment in the Botanical Garden will be upgraded both for employees and visitors when the new higher Palm house and a new entrance
https://www.botan.lu.se/en/renovation-botanical-garden - 2025-12-17
Here, earlier weeds grow next to more conspicuous plants such as St Bernard's lily (Anthericum liliago) and globeflower (Trollius europaeus). This part of the garden is perhaps not the most showy, but all the more interesting because it houses species that are threatened with extinction in Skåne and at risk of disappearing from the landscape.The botanical garden collaborates with the County Admi
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The Canary Islands hold a completely unique flora with many endemic species, meaning that they are only found here. Although many of the species belong to plant families that are also found elsewhere in the world, one can be amazed at how the environmental conditions of the Canary Islands have shaped the flora in a completely different way.For example, plants we know as rather small and herbaceous
https://www.botan.lu.se/en/garden-and-plants/plants-outdoors/plants-canary-islands - 2025-12-17
New garden cultivars are constantly being developed and old ones disappear. In order to preserve older cultivars for the future, the Swedish Programme for Diversity of Cultivated PLants (POM) started in 2002, and the National Gene Bank in Alnarp opened in 2016. In Alnarp, older cultivars grow in large fields.As a back up to the living plant collections, there are local clone archives all around Sw
https://www.botan.lu.se/en/garden-and-plants/plants-outdoors/clone-archive - 2025-12-17
In this part of the garden you can find herbs that have been used by humans for a long time. Deadly poisonous plants, witchcraft plants and daily culinary herbs are grown side by side. But also current medicinal plants and plants that have traditionally been used to cure various symptoms and diseases.In the past, all medicines had a natural origin. Many of the plants bear the specific name offic
https://www.botan.lu.se/en/garden-and-plants/plants-outdoors/spice-and-medicinal-garden - 2025-12-17
Here you find plants that have changed the world! There are plants that are grown to provide food for both humans and animals. Others have fibers that make thread, textile, yarn and paper, or that are used for dyeing to give blue, red and yellow. Together with the Spice and Medicinal garden, the Economic plant garden shows how important plants are to our existence. Among the plants grown here yo
https://www.botan.lu.se/en/garden-and-plants/plants-outdoors/economic-plants - 2025-12-17
Experience the plants with all your senses. The plants growing here can be perceived in many ways. Some leaves are smooth and others are coarse. There are scented flowers and plants with leaves that secrete scents when touched. The plants are grown in a raised bed so that visitors who have difficulty bending over and visitors in wheelchairs can also enjoy the plants. The Swedish common plant nam
https://www.botan.lu.se/en/garden-and-plants/plants-outdoors/fragrance-patch - 2025-12-17
Vines and climbing plants have their own location in the pergola. It stretches in an arc around the pond and levee in the northern part of the garden. Here you can see how different genera and species within selected plant families have evolved different climbing strategies to reach sun light. Climbing plants use various organs, for example tendrils with or without adhesive pads, to get higher. So
https://www.botan.lu.se/en/garden-and-plants/plants-outdoors/pergola - 2025-12-17
Among the ornamental plants are many species and cultivars of flowering garden plants. Focus lies on interesting and decorative plants, and the plantings display both perennial and annual plants. It is therefore a good place to gather ideas for your own garden or balcony!Every year since 1997, Swedish professional growers choose a plant or cultivar with great qualities that is elected "Perennial
The Rock Garden is home to many plants that cannot be grown elsewhere in the garden. With rocks and stones, habitats can be created that differ, for example, in terms of temperature and sun exposure, temperature and soil. Common for them all is the good drainage. Thanks to the the stones, the Rock Garden heats up faster than other parts of the garden, and flowering starts early in the spring. Mo
https://www.botan.lu.se/en/garden-and-plants/plants-outdoors/rock-garden - 2025-12-17
The Systematic Section demonstrates the evolutionary relationships among flowering plants. Around 500 species have been selected to show the variation within and between plant families. When the garden was established at its current location in the 1860s, the plants were placed to represent Jacob Georg Agardh's concept of kinship. Our knowledge of plant evolution and relationships between plants
https://www.botan.lu.se/en/garden-and-plants/plants-outdoors/systematic-section - 2025-12-17
Among the Cottage Garden Flowers are old-time garden plants that were very popular in the old days and particulaly common around old cottages and farms in the southern parts of Sweden.The Cottage Garden Flowers can be used as inspiration by those who want to choose plants suitable for the garden of an old house, or who simply enjoy "old-fashioned" flowers.In the 2025 season, a collection of gerani
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Many species of trees and shrubs thrive in Skåne's mild climate. Representatives of more than 200 genera are planted in the Botanical Garden. They are still arranged according to the founder Jacob Georg Agardh's plant classification from 1858. Some trees are more than 150 years old and were planted at the time when the garden was established. Examples are the tulip trees (Liriodendron) in the c
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A distinct addition to the Botanical Garden are the large pots and plant containers that are placed around the garden during summer. The species that are planted in them mostly come from tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Some of the plants are both old and large. Many display fantastic flowering when they are allowed to move out into the open air. When the temperature decreases in a
https://www.botan.lu.se/en/garden-and-plants/plants-outdoors/pots-and-containers - 2025-12-17
Already in the 18th century, Lund University established its Botanical Garden, and in the mid-19th century, it was relocated to it´s current location. Join us for the guided tours during the month of July, where we blend the history of the garden with botanical knowledge and a plethora of fantastic plants and trees. Tours are available every Tuesday and Thursday from 1:45 pm to 2:15 pm. The tour
https://www.botan.lu.se/en/guided-tours-botanical-garden - 2025-12-17
For a long time, Lund University, donors, and the National Property Board of Sweden have been working to breathe new life into the Botanical Garden’s greenhouses! The renovation will start in the summer 2024, and we calculate it will be finished by autumn 2026. What does this mean?The greenhouses are closed for visitors, while the garden is open as usual. Parts of the garden are closed off to make
https://www.botan.lu.se/en/renovation-our-greenhouses - 2025-12-17
Blackberries are diverse and have an interesting distribution and biology. They belong to the genus Rubus, which also includes raspberries and cloudberries. Blackberries consist of hundreds of so called microspecies that can be difficult to distinguish. These microspecies form seeds without prior fertilization, which means that all individual plants within the microspecies have an identical gene s
https://www.botan.lu.se/en/bramble-patch - 2025-12-17
The Understory garden is a slightly wilder area of the garden. Here you find a selection of plants that thrive in the shade under the various trees of the Rosaceae family growing here. Among other things, you can admire a collection of hellebores (Helleborus) blooming from winter to spring. At the beginning of May, the first peonies (Paeonia) emerge.In this part of the Botanical Garden the plants
https://www.botan.lu.se/en/garden-and-plants/plants-outdoors/understory-garden - 2025-12-17
