Outdoor gardens and landscapes

Gardens and designed landscapes

• Arboretum: 5 ha outdoor space planted with trees from all over the world. Included is a Collection of rare and native fruit varieties.
• Alpine garden: divided into geograpical and ecological areas indluding an alpine greenhouse.
• Rhododendron-valley: Woody plants from Asia and North America. Along the stream further highlights: Primrose valley and farn gorge.
• Heath area
• Steppe: Asian and North American shrubs.
• Swabian Alb: Landscape of natural habitats of the Swabian Alb with many, in nature, already endangered species (Conservation).
• Systematic department (Link to old website in German)
• Ecological area
• Apothecary garden
• Cottage garden
• vineyard
• Ornamental shurbs and fuchsias
• Exhibition pavillion
• Moss trail
• Station for wild bees

Further descriptions of the variouse areas are available on our old website (last updated in 2008, pages are in German)

Detailed information on the various plant families in the Botanical Garden (last updated in 2008) can also be found on the old website, link above.