Garden Tips and Urban Gardening

Garden designer Gabriella Pape is the founder and director of the Royal Garden Academy in Dahlem, which offers gardening courses.

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.

For all who want to beautify their garden with hardy perennials and beautiful plants, Foerster Stauden in Potsdam is the institution.

An S-Bahn station in Berlin was even named after this traditional nursery: Baumschulenweg!

Gardening where planes once flew - this is possible at Tempelhofer Freiheit, the site of the former Tempelhof airfield.

himmelbeet is a relatively new, non-profit urban gardening project in Wedding without profit-making.

Many Berliners with green thumbs take on the sponsorship of a tree pit, ensuring colorful flowers and cheerful hues in the cityscape.

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.





















