Botanical garden of Düsseldorf

The Botanischer Garten Düsseldorf is a beautiful garden that covers 8 hectares and is cared for by the University of Düsseldorf. You can find it at Universitätsstraße 1 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The garden is open every day during the warmer months, and you can visit it for free.

The garden was created in 1974 and now has about 6,000 different kinds of plants. It especially shows plants that grow well in cooler parts of the world, called temperate climates. The outdoor areas are organized into special sections. These include gardens that show plants from certain places like alpine garden, Central Europe, Caucasus, Northeast Asia, Japan, China, North America, and South America.

There are also gardens that show plants that grow in certain kinds of environments, like heath, moor, and areas with pine trees, fruit trees, and wild flowers. Other special gardens include a systematic garden, a garden for plants that help people, a garden for crops, a cottage garden, a garden for conifers, and areas for summer flowers, plants that grow on volcanic soils, and plants that are in danger of disappearing.

The garden also has a large greenhouse area. One big dome covers about 1,000 square meters and is 18 meters tall. It shows around 400 kinds of plants from warm places such as the Mediterranean region, the Canary Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, South Africa, Chile, and California. There is also an Orangery that opened in 2004, covering 300 square meters and reaching 13 meters high. It helps protect plants from cold weather, especially those from warm parts of the Southern Hemisphere, and some special plants called Pyrophytes from Australia and South Africa. Another house, called the South Africa house, opened in 2008 and covers 330 square meters. It shows plants from the steppe areas of South Africa.