15 Locations
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.
In Dahlem, not far from the Botanical Garden, the Königliche Gartenakademie (Royal Garden Academy) is much more than just a plant shop: Here, historic greenhouses meet an English garden school where hobby gardeners and professionals alike can develop their plant knowledge and design sense.
More than just vegetables grow in the Botanical People's Park Blankenfelde-Pankow: The farm gardens in Volkspark Pankow combine community gardening with ecological learning on a historic garden site from 1909. Those who lease a plot here get sustainable cultivation, fresh harvest, and a piece of green deceleration in Berlin's northeast.
The Kienbergpark, named after the Kienberg hill in Berlin-Hellersdorf, is a 60 hectare park with a 1.5 km long cable car.
In Potsdam-Bornim, not far from Sanssouci Palace, lies the cradle of the modern perennial garden: Foerster Stauden combines over 115 years of breeding history with an unparalleled assortment. Anyone looking to buy hardy perennials, grasses, and ferns directly from the producer won't find a closer source anywhere else in Germany.
On the former Prinzessinnengarten site at Moritzplatz in Kreuzberg, a non-commercial, self-organized neighborhood and inclusion garden has been created. Those who garden here do so according to the principles of permaculture - collaboratively, democratically, and open to all.
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!
Since 1720, the extensive grounds of Späth'sche Nurseries in Berlin-Treptow have stood for vibrant garden culture on historic soil. As Germany's oldest tree nursery, it combines one of Berlin's largest plant markets with garden seminars, show gardens, and a guesthouse under trees that you won't soon forget.
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.
Where planes once took off, vegetables now grow: The Allmende Kontor on Tempelhofer Freiheit in Neukölln is Berlin's best-known community garden, an intercultural meeting place, and a green learning space all at once. Spread over 5,000 square meters, it shows how urban gardening truly works in a major city.
Berlin's first intercultural community garden has been located in Köpenick since 2003, directly on the Wuhle hiking trail in Dammvorstadt. On approximately 4,000 square meters, people from over 20 nations garden together, grow vegetables and fruits, and demonstrate that community gardens in Berlin can do more than just produce greenery.
High above the rooftops of Neukölln, on the parking deck of the Neukölln Arcaden, thrives the KlunkerGarten: probably Berlin's highest urban gardening project, run by volunteers, organically cultivated, and with panoramic views over the entire city.
In Wedding, near Humboldthain, more than just vegetables grow on 1,400 square meters: himmelbeet is Berlin's most renowned intercultural community garden, where neighbors sow, harvest, and celebrate together. Old varieties, fresh ideas, and a garden café with stone oven pizza make this place the heart of the neighborhood.
Those in Berlin without a garden who still want to garden can find an opportunity right on their doorstep: the tree pit. Berliners in districts like Mitte, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, or Treptow-Köpenick are transforming the small strips of earth around street trees into blooming miniature gardens - making a tangible contribution to more greenery in the neighborhood.
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.