Linnaean Garden, Botanical garden in Uppsala, Sweden.
The Linnaean Garden is a botanical garden in Uppsala, Sweden, laid out in a French style from the 1700s with straight paths and trimmed hedges dividing the space into ordered beds. It holds around 1,300 plant species, each placed according to the classification system developed by Carl Linnaeus.
The garden was founded in 1655 by the botanist Olaus Rudbeck, but much of it was lost in the Uppsala city fire of 1702. Carl Linnaeus took over in 1741 and rebuilt it from the ground up to support his research.
The name Linnaeus is everywhere in Uppsala, and this garden sits at the heart of that connection. The plants are grouped by the same system he used to teach students, so walking the beds feels like following a lesson from the 1700s.
The garden is open from May through September and sits in the old part of Uppsala, within easy walking distance of the city center. The paths are flat and at ground level, so moving around is easy regardless of how much time you have.
The beds follow the arrangement described in Linnaeus's own publication "Hortus Upsaliensis," so the garden reads almost like a physical copy of that book. There is also a small 18th-century orangery on the grounds that still houses potted plants during the colder months.
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