Plants

Marsano ties its bouquets by season rather than by a fixed recipe and has grown part of its flowers on a field of its own outside Berlin since 2019. Around 35 people work in the house south of the Gendarmenmarkt, and beside the floristry there are vintage furniture pieces, an Everlasting Collection and changing shows of young Berlin art.

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.

Blumen- und Gartenkunst on Alt-Moabit puts plants, bouquets and art objects out onto the pavement and sorts the flowers inside by colour. The range is put together afresh each morning. Andreas Tunger and Thomas Tunger-Schnur have run the house for almost thirty years and join floristry to garden design, from a planted courtyard to a roof garden.

At Blumen-Koch Berlin on Westfaelische Strasse, Christian and Brise Koch and their team tie by hand only what they would put on their own table at home. A courier of their own carries the bouquets across Berlin the same day, and overnight they travel across Germany and into several European countries, while the collections change with the seasons.

At the Forum Floranum the focus is on creative, personalised bouquets in stead of mass production.

Blumental at Engeldamm in Kreuzberg is one of the best addresses for vegan-vegetarian food. In a historic brick building, a collective of passionate chefs and restaurateurs serves plant-based cuisine so creative that you truly won't miss the meat.

Grünschnabel in the Bötzowviertel calls itself a neighborhood flower shop and sources its cut flowers from nurseries in Brandenburg, with a seven-day freshness guarantee. Bouquets start at 35 Euros, the shop plants balcony boxes for free (only the contents are paid for), and pots and vases come from their own line.

The flower shop Dornröschen offers floristics of all kinds. Be it for a birthday, a bouquet for your loved one or just some flowers on the go - no matter what the occasion may be, their staff will always come up with an alternative to boring run o'the mill bouquets.

Der Blumenstand grows its own flowers: around 150 varieties on 6,000 square meters, organically grown in Brandenburg, plus about a hundred varieties of potted, balcony, and garden plants and herbs. Sales are made at three locations in Kreuzberg: in its own shop in Chamissokiez, in Markthalle Neun, and at the Ökomarkt (eco-market) on Chamissoplatz.

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.

Flowers Art & Design sees itself as an atelier rather than simply a flower shop: bouquets, arrangements and room decorations are made on Kronenstrasse in Mitte, and beside them stand flower subscriptions for homes and offices, planted balconies and a flower taxi of its own that brings orders to the door within the city. Many of the jobs come from the neighbourhood.

Florale Welten has existed since the late nineties, and in 2008 the house was named flower shop of the year at the Taspo Awards. After spells on Nuernberger Strasse and Rankestrasse the business now sits in Halensee, with a showroom, a workshop counter and a city garden of its own. The flowers are fairly traded and come mostly from the region.

Blumen-Holm has been in Weissensee since 1992, run in the second generation and with seven people on the team, which trains its own florists. The flowers come from the region where possible and otherwise from fair trade, and beside the floristry the shop carries a range of vases, candles and furniture with an antique air.

Flower & Art in Wedding is not a shop to walk into but a workshop that works strictly to order: event flowers for companies, weddings with the whole table decoration and bouquets by advance order. The costing starts from the budget, with the figures split into fresh flowers on one side and service and hire items on the other.

The Great Tropical House in the Dahlem Botanical Garden is a self-supporting hall structure from 1906 and 1907, sixty by thirty meters wide and twenty-three meters high. Inside, a piece of tropical forest grows with giant bamboo, screw pine, and cycads. A day ticket for the entire garden costs 10 Euros, reduced it is 5 Euros.

In Marzahn, where prefabricated buildings meet expansive green spaces, lies Berlin's green world tour: The Gardens of the World combine over 20 international theme gardens across 43 hectares, a hovering cable car over the Kienberg, and open-air concerts for up to 5,000 visitors.

The Berlin Botanical Garden stretches over 43 hectares between Dahlem and Lichterfelde and houses around 20,000 plant species. The complex includes fifteen display greenhouses, among them the Great Tropical House with giant bamboo and palms. To combat a boring Sunday, the order helps: first the outdoor area, then the tropics, and both in any weather.

A piece of jungle is hidden in Steglitz-Zehlendorf: The Great Tropical House in the Botanical Garden Berlin is one of the largest self-supporting greenhouses in the world, exchanging Berlin's winter grey for 25-meter-high tree giants and tropical warmth.

Spanning 90 hectares in southern Neukölln, Britzer Garten offers everything you'd leave Berlin for on a beautiful day, without actually leaving the city: blooming theme gardens, an artificially created lake, expansive sunbathing lawns, and a lively event program that carries through the entire summer.

Blumenhaus Gloeden in Rudow ties classic Biedermeier bouquets and gives a written freshness guarantee of at least a week on cut flowers. Beside the floristry the shop of Nicole Gloeden carries sculptures and figures in cast stone, stucco and metal for the garden, the conservatory and the living room, and regular customers collect loyalty points.

Located in the Nikolaiviertel, just a few minutes' walk from Alexanderplatz, the Hemp Museum Berlin is the only institution of its kind in Germany, dedicating approximately 300 square meters to the cultural history of cannabis. Botany, industrial history, medicine, and prohibition are given equal space here, presented objectively and without moralizing.

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.

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.

In Marzahn-Hellersdorf, the Gardens of the World gather eleven theme gardens and nine garden cabinets, from the Chinese Garden with its teahouse to the Balinese Garden under glass. Berlin's only cable car runs across the grounds up to the Wolkenhain on Kienberg. As a Sunday program, this offers options from a short stroll to a full afternoon.