Woody plants in the Botanical Garden

The collection of broadleaf trees and shrubs is located next to the conifer grove. In addition to the main avenue, it is here that most of the tree-shaped and shrub-shaped ’angiosperms’ grow. Unlike the conifers, these angiosperms bear flowers with an ovary and produce fruit rather than cones.

A total of around 1,500 broadleaf trees and shrubs from around 600 different species grow in the Botanical Garden. Particularly valuable are the numerous trees up to 200 years old, which now also provide a habitat for many other organisms – from rare fungi to various bat species.

In addition to the most important representatives of the European deciduous forests, the Garden also accommodates specialties such as the bottlebrush (group 18) or the hardy date-plum (group 3).