


Garden designer Gabriella Pape is the founder and director of the Royal Garden Academy in Dahlem, which offers gardening courses.
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Green fingered Berliners know where to find garden supplies, from balcony pots to full plot kit. For an allotment or a windowsill, garden supplies here cover tools, seeds, plants and soil. This overview gathers Berlin locations for growing things.
Garden centres and nurseries around the outer districts stock plants, tools and outdoor furniture, while hardware stores and markets add seeds, compost and pots. Specialist shops focus on urban gardening, herbs and houseplants for smaller spaces, and some offer advice for the city's many balcony growers. Spring is the busiest season.
Browse the addresses below to find garden supplies across Berlin, from big centres to urban plant shops.



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.


A garden in the middle of the city for everyone to dig around, a garden café for sunny summer days, flea markets, concerts and workshops - the offer of Kreuzberg's Prinzessinengärten is nothing short of really diverse!


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






At Späth'sche Baumschulen, Germany's oldest tree nursery, guests can expect a Christmas market with Santa Claus, angels, and a forest of fir trees.

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.

Mörchenpark is an established urban gardening project in Berlin and part of the Holzmarkt project in Berlin-Friedrichshain.


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.