Hatanpää Arboretum (officially called Hatanpää Park Arboretum) is an

arboretum An arboretum (plural: arboreta) in a general sense is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees of a variety of species. Originally mostly created as a section in a larger garden or park for specimens of mostly non-local species, man ...

and

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 in

Hatanpää Hatanpää () is a district in Tampere, Finland, located in the southern part of the city center on the shores of Lake Pyhäjärvi. Hatanpää is actually a peninsula that protrudes towards the lake, leaving the waters of Viinikanlahti Bay to th ...

Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

, and was founded in the 1970s on the lands of the former

Hatanpää Manor Hatanpää Manor ( fi, Hatanpään kartano) was a manor in the area of the current city of Tampere on the shores of Lake Pyhäjärvi in Pirkanmaa, Finland. It was founded in the 1690s, but the current main building of Hatanpää Manor, designed b ...

. The park area is planted with several different species of trees, shrubs and flowers and is provided with nameplates to facilitate identification. The arboretum is a popular recreation area and the

rose garden A rose garden or rosarium is a garden or park, often open to the public, used to present and grow various types of garden roses, and sometimes rose species. Most often it is a section of a larger garden. Designs vary tremendously and roses m ...

with its many

rose species There is significant disagreement over the number of true rose species. Some species are so similar that they could easily be considered variations of a single species, while other species show enough variation that they could easily be considered ...

is an attraction.Hatanpää Arboretum
(in Finnish)

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References

External links

(in Finnish)
Hatanpään Arboretum - Visit Tampere
(in Finnish)
Hatanpää Arboretum - VirtualTampere.com
(in Finnish)
Eila Siitarinen: ''Tampereen puistot 125 v''; p. 14; Tampereen kaupungin puistoyksikkö, 1999
(in Finnish) Arboreta in Finland Parks in Tampere Botanical gardens Rose gardens {{WesternFinland-geo-stub