Visited: August 2019
Written: September 2019
Updated: April 2020
3 hectares with 10,000 plants of 4500 different species, how does that sound? Awesome right! Then let me show you the Botanical Gardens of the Leipzig University.
Do you like plants?
Of course you do, or you wouldn't be here right now.
I do too, as you might have noticed. In fact, I love all that is nature. City trips, on the other hand, are not my thing. I often try to skip cities when traveling. However, sometimes you can’t, and for whatever reason you do end up in the city.
Whenever I end up in a city on my travels I try to make the best of my time there by looking for nature in the city: Zoos, parks, natural history museums, bird watching and, I think you could have guessed this one: Botanical gardens!
In the summers of 2018 and 2019, I ended up in the German city of Leipzig. This gave me the chance to visit the city’s Natural history museum, the zoo and the botanical gardens of the Leipzig University. In this post, I will take you on a quick tour through the greenhouse of the botanical gardens in 11 photos.
Leipzig for the nature enthusiast
Come back soon for a post on the wild side of Leipzig. I am currently writing one about Leipzig for the Nature enthousiast traveler. For now, check out this great post about the Parks of Leipzig in this great post by Marion Kutter on the Culture Trip.Botanical gardens are the place to go if you have an interest in nature, plants or flowers, or if you just enjoy a stroll in the park. They are also great for photography, as you can see below.
As the name might suggest, a botanical garden is a garden displaying things that are botanical, a.k.a. plants. They often house plant species from all over the world. Like the botanical gardens of the Leipzig University, many have a greenhouse where their tropical plants are housed.
3 hectares with 10,000 plants of 4500 species1, how does that sound? The botanical gardens of the Leipzig University are one of the oldest of Europe, founded between 1542 and 1580 when as the medicinal garden of a monastery. These days, the gardens house all kinds of species, from orchids to waterlilies, bamboos to evergreens, and from cacti to palms. See the table below for some more practical information about the Leipzig Botanical Gardens, or quickly skip the table to get to the photographs.
Wait! I almost forgot: They have butterflies in the greenhouse!
The Leipzig Botanical Garden in a glance
| Where | Leipzig, Germany |
| Costs | Terrain: Free Greenhouse: €4,00 |
| Best time to visit | Spring and summer |
| Duration of visit | ±3 hours |
| Website | English German |
| Accomodations in Leipzig | Check on Booking.com!* |
| Other things to do in Leipzig | The best things to see and do in Leipzig by Evelyn Smallwood on the Culture Trip, Get a good impression of Leipzig in this guide about Leipzig, the German city you never really think of visiting by Yaya and Lloyd from Hand luggage Only. |
Pseuderanthemum alatum
Dichorisandra sp.
Episcia lilacina
Euryale ferox
Coleus sp.
Cassia alata
Crassula perforata
Fittonia sp.
Costus barbatus
Dioon edule palm
Echinocactus grusonii cactus
Fun fact: The last one, the cactus with the huge spines, we call that one 'Mother in law's chair' in Dutch...
Kinda makes me glad I'm never going to be anybody's mother in law...
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So, next time you go citytripping, don't forget to check out the botanical gardens, no matter which city you're in!
Further reading
- A great post about all the Parks of Leipzig by Marion Kutter on the Culture Trip.
- Coming soon on All around the Earth: a post about the wild side of Leipzig, Leipzig for the nature enthousiast traveler.
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Sources
- Universität Leipzig. (2019, October 23). Botanical Garden. Universität Leipzig. Retrieved from https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en/university/structure/museums-and-collections/botanical-garden/.
It’s so beautiful! I especially love the prickly water lily! It just looks so peaceful!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kari! I really loved that water lily too. A bit sad it wasn't in bloom when I was in Leipzig though... Imagine how beautiful that must have been!
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