Botanická zahrada Univerzity Palackého, University botanical garden in Olomouc, Czech Republic

The Botanical Garden of Palacký University occupies 0.56 hectares on U botanické zahrady street near Smetanovy sady. It is divided into three parts: a park section with tall trees, a winding pond and a model of a dead arm of the Litovelské Pomoraví; a central section with regularly arranged beds; and a border strip along the railway. About 1,500 plant species grow here, including 250 woody plants and roughly 50 moss species.

The garden was first mentioned in writing in 1787, when the Olomouc Lyceum intended to found one. A garden was then actually created at the Dominican monastery of St. Michael for medical and surgical studies, but it was closed in 1874 after the school ceased. The present garden was begun in 1901 by the Botanischer Verein in Olmütz on the site of today's Smetanovy sady; in 1958 it passed to Palacký University, which has owned it since 1959.

Students visit this space to study plants in their organized settings and observe how different species coexist in designed sections. The garden functions as a place where people connect botanical knowledge with the living plants around them.

The garden welcomes visitors from April through October with varying hours depending on the season, opening at 8 AM with closing times at 4 PM in spring and fall or 6 PM during summer months. Free admission means you can spend as much or as little time here as you wish without any cost.

The garden's oldest tree is a hundred-year-old English oak (Quercus robur) named after the Moravian naturalist Heinrich Laus; in 2025 it became the first tree on university land to receive state protection. The garden also holds about 50 species of bryophytes.