The Botanischer Garten Augsburg (10 hectares) is a municipal

botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, an ...

located at Dr.-Ziegenspeck-Weg 10,

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. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged. Today the garden contains a large

Japanese garden are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden desi ...

, a medicinal plant garden,

rose A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be ...

garden, and a crop garden. All told, it includes over 3100 species and varieties of perennials, wild herbs,

grass Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns a ...

es, and

fern A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta ) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pteridophytes exce ...

s, with 280 species and varieties of

s, about 1200 species and varieties of plants under glass, and more than one million

onion An onion (''Allium cepa'' L., from Latin ''cepa'' meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus ''Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onio ...

plants. Other points of interest include cacti,

euphorbia ''Euphorbia'' is a very large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge, in the family Euphorbiaceae. "Euphorbia" is sometimes used in ordinary English to collectively refer to all members of Euphorbiaceae (in deference to t ...

, and succulents, as well as a sage garden and climbing plants.

References

Botanischer Garten Augsburg

Garden map

Qype entry

Wikimapia entry
* Mitulla, Roswita, Wißner, Bernd, Liesz, Norbert, ''Botanischer Garten Augsburg'', Wißner-Verlag, Augsburg, 2006. . * ''Gartenführer durch den Botanischen Garten'', Hrsg. Stadt Augsburg, Botanischer Garten. Augsburg, Botanischer Garten Augsburg, Botanischer Garten {{Germany-garden-stub

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