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Garden designer Gabriella Pape is the founder and director of the Royal Garden Academy in Dahlem, which offers gardening courses.
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Garden Tips and Urban Gardening
Last updated on 06/24/2026
The 10 best garden tips and urban gardening projects in Berlin
With its many parks and gardens, Berlin is a green city, but many Berliners want to do more than just stroll, they want to get their hands dirty. These ten addresses show where you can indulge your green thumb. At the Royal Garden Academy in Dahlem, garden designer Gabriella Pape passes on her knowledge in courses, and in the farm gardens in Volkspark Pankow, whole families make the pilgrimage to their vegetable beds. At the neighbourhood garden at Moritzplatz in Kreuzberg, everyone is welcome to dig, while the Allmende Kontor on Tempelhofer Feld gardens where planes once flew. The himmelbeet in Wedding is one of the younger non-profit projects. Where do you want to try out your green thumb?
Yulia Veksler
For this list, I explored Berlin's green side and looked for places where you can garden and learn for yourself, from the Royal Garden Academy in Dahlem to the neighbourhood garden at Moritzplatz and the Allmende Kontor on Tempelhofer Feld. I paid attention to the variety of offerings, whether course, community project or nursery. Here are my tips for hobby gardeners.
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Visitors to the beautiful Botanical Garden in Volkspark Pankow might be surprised by the fenced-off area with vegetable beds, to which entire families flock.
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For all who want to beautify their garden with hardy perennials and beautiful plants, Foerster Stauden in Potsdam is the institution.
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An S-Bahn station in Berlin was even named after this traditional nursery: Baumschulenweg!
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Gardening where planes once flew - this is possible at Tempelhofer Freiheit, the site of the former Tempelhof airfield.
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himmelbeet is a relatively new, non-profit urban gardening project in Wedding without profit-making.
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Many Berliners with green thumbs take on the sponsorship of a tree pit, ensuring colorful flowers and cheerful hues in the cityscape.
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Twenty years ago, allotments were considered stuffy, but today many allotment gardens and allotment associations can barely keep up with demand and have to create waiting lists.
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