Just a stones throw from the central station lies the Garden Society of Gothenburg. This is one of the best preserved 19th century parks in Europe, and is honoured by the Michelin Guide.
Every day is an experience
The Garden Society has plenty to offer for all the family - daily walks in the park, concerts, traditional festivities and theatre for the youngest members of the family.
The Horticultural Gardens
In the middle of the 19th Century, gardening became more and more popular in Europe. Many new species were introduced from other parts of the world and plant breeding developed strongly. Horticultural associations were formed in many places in Sweden. The Garden Society of Gothenburg was founded in 1842 and is today one of the best preserved 19th Century parks in Sweden. It was declared a building monument in 1992.
The purpose of founding the gardens had two main objectives: to promote the spreading of horticulture and to create a popular meeting place. The Garden Society was one of Sweden’s leading plant nurseries at that time and, in order to promote social life, there were a number of bandstands, Schweizerei (a café licensed to sell wines and spirits) and other small houses.
Horticulture and bringing people together are just as important today. Here, you will find a very diverse range of plants with among other things, a Rose Garden, exotic plants in the Palmhouse, an impressive collection of trees, perennials and annuals, as well as an agave and a cactus planting. Restaurants and cafés, musical arrangements, theatrical performances, seminars, seasonal parties and many other things make the park hustle and bustle throughout the year.
The Rose gardens
Come and experience the captivating scent of thousands of roses. Our Rose gardens have been awarded no fewer than three stars in the Michelin Guide!
With some 2,000 roses of 1,400 different species and cultivars, the Rose gardens can compete with any in the world. They contain roses from all over the world, arranged systematically in groups according to historical development and description. The roses are maintained organically.
The best time of the year to study roses in bloom is generally in the beginning of July, and at the second major blooming at the end of August. But even into the beginning of November one can see roses in bloom. Our roses are maintained organically.
The Palm house
The Palmhouse appeared in Gothenburg in 1878 like a gigantic puzzle made of cast iron and glass. In this splendid building of almost 1,000 m
² you will be bewitched by natural beauty from all corners of the world. The Palmhouse building contains five sections with different climates: the Camellia house, the Mediterranean house, the Palmhouse, the Tropical house and the Water house which contains the Giant Water Lily, grown from seed each year, and a fine collection of bromeliads.