Botanischer Garten Krefeld

The Botanischer Garten Krefeld is a plant collection spread across roughly 4 hectares with thousands of species from different climates and regions. The grounds have open garden areas with grouped plant collections and glassed structures for plants that need warmth, such as palms and tropical varieties.

The site was founded in 1927 as a small teaching facility and expanded systematically over the following decades into a large plant museum. This growth followed the international movement to establish scientific plant collections in urban spaces.

The garden shows visitors how plants connect to daily life, food, and healing traditions from different parts of the world. You can see how ordinary people in various regions have used plants for medicine and farming through the organized plant sections.

The open garden areas are accessible during daylight hours, but the glassed structures have limited opening times on weekdays. The best time to visit is spring and summer when most plants are flowering or actively growing.

The garden includes an apothecary section with medicinal plants from around the world that shows which wild and cultivated plants were traditionally used for healing. Another area recreates the vegetable gardens and flower beds of the Lower Rhine region with their distinctive geometric layout.