The Japanese garden
A water garden with bridges.
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At the university's old site in Rotherbaum in the city centre, entirely separate from this garden and about ten kilometres away. Many visitors come to Klein Flottbek expecting tropical plants and do not find them โ if that is your aim, confirm the destination before setting out.
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The University of Hamburg's botanical garden โ formally named for Loki Schmidt, the botanist and environmental campaigner who was Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's wife โ covers some twenty-five hectares in Klein Flottbek west of the city, and entry is entirely free. Its organisation is geographical: sections representing the plants of Europe, Asia, North America and the Mediterranean basin, so you walk through successive plant climates. The Japanese section, with its water garden and bridges, is among the most fully realised parts, and there are gardens of medicinal and of aromatic plants, the latter designed for touching and smelling. Its best-known section is the climate garden: a sequence of spaces showing how plants adapt to extreme environments โ deserts, mountains and marshes. The tropical glasshouses are at the university's old city-centre site rather than here, a point that sometimes confuses visitors. The garden adjoins Jenischpark and the two can be linked on foot.
A water garden with bridges.
Plant adaptation to deserts and mountains.
Hesten 10, 22609 Hamburg