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Akureyri Botanical Garden
Akureyri Botanical Garden (Lystigarður Akureyrar), Iceland's first public park (1912) with a botanic section added 1957; about 3.6 ha near the Arctic Circle in Akureyri, holding 430 native species and 6,600 alien taxa, free entry year round.
Botanical gardens in the Nordic countries
Botanical gardens in the Nordic countries are the scientific plant collections of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, linked since 2024 by the Nordic Network of Botanic Gardens.
Gothenburg Botanical Garden
Gothenburg Botanical Garden (Göteborgs botaniska trädgården, Botaniska), a 175-hectare botanical garden in Gothenburg, Sweden, opened 1919–1923, led by Carl Skottsberg; 20,000 species, Michelin-listed rock garden, Sweden's largest orchid collection.
Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden
Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden (Kaisaniemen kasvitieteellinen puutarha), University of Helsinki botanic garden in central Helsinki since 1829, founded in Turku 1678, with 10 greenhouses, the 1889 Palm House, and Finland's national living plant collection.
Kumpula Botanic Garden
Kumpula Botanic Garden (Kumpulan kasvitieteellinen puutarha) is a six-hectare Luomus garden in Helsinki on Kumpula Manor grounds, founded 1987, opened 2009, with cultivated-plant and geobotanical collections; closed until spring 2027.
Linnés Orangeriträdgård
Linnés Orangeriträdgård, Linnaeus's Orangery Garden at Möckelsnäs, Sweden, is a reconstruction of an 18th-century Linnaeus garden with an orangery, four themed plant quarters, and orange trees up to 200 years old.
The Acidophillic Beds
The Acidophillic Beds (Surbundsbedene) are acid-soil garden beds in the Aarhus Botanical Gardens, Denmark, planted for ericaceous plants such as rhododendron, saved by volunteers after a 2011 closure plan.
The Botanical Garden of the University of Turku
The Botanical Garden of the University of Turku (Turun yliopiston kasvitieteellinen puutarha), on Ruissalo island, Turku, Finland: founded 1924 at Iso-Heikkilä, moved to Ruissalo 1956; six greenhouses and a 23-hectare outdoor garden with over 5,000 plant taxa.
The garden of the senses
The garden of the senses (Aistien puutarha, Sinnenas trädgård) is a sensory garden name shared by the 2017 Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden sensory garden in Helsinki and Stockholm's therapeutic Sinnenas trädgård, designed for touch, smell, taste, and accessibility.
The lichen garden
The lichen garden (Jäkäläpuutarha, Lavträdgården) is a 2016 lichen display at Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden, Helsinki, built from salvaged lichens, stones, and benches; similar lichen gardens exist in Australia, Scotland, and India.
The Oslo Ridge
The Oslo Ridge (Osloryggen) is a themed conservation bed in the University Botanical Garden at Tøyen, Oslo, created in 2000 for the city's millennium, growing about 100 native inner-Oslofjord species including several threatened ones.
University Botanical Garden
The University Botanical Garden (Botanisk hage), Norway's oldest botanical garden, was established in 1814 at Tøyen in Oslo and is part of the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum.
Uppsala University Botanical Garden
The Uppsala University Botanical Garden is Sweden's oldest botanical garden, founded in 1655, directed by Carl Linnaeus from 1741, and moved to its present 13-hectare site below Uppsala Castle in 1807.