


Garden designer Gabriella Pape is the founder and director of the Royal Garden Academy in Dahlem, which offers gardening courses.
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Good garden tips make all the difference, and Berlin's nurseries and community projects are full of them. From balcony growing to allotment planning, the right garden tips help city dwellers make the most of limited space. This overview gathers Berlin locations for green inspiration.
Garden centres and plant shops across the city offer advice alongside their stock, while community gardens and urban farming projects share hands on knowledge. Workshops cover everything from composting to container growing, and seasonal markets bring seeds and seedlings. Even a small balcony can flourish with the right guidance.
Browse the venues below for garden tips across Berlin, from nurseries to community plots.



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.




The Kienbergpark, named after the Kienberg hill in Berlin-Hellersdorf, is a 60 hectare park with a 1.5 km long cable car.


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.