Annual meeting of plant lovers takes place for the 13th time at the Botanic Garden on Saturday, 3 June from 10 am to 3 pm.

This year’s Garden Day is dedicated to the Botanic Garden’s 220th anniversary.

You can discover fascinating plants and buy your own favourites. Any gardening enthusiast can find something to add to their garden at the Botanic Garden.

Spring gardening season is here and it’s a good time to check out exciting plant trends, ask for gardening advice and find new plant residents for your garden. During the event, you can learn about the local varieties growing in your garden, get advice from plant collectors and breeders on growing different plants and choosing a variety, and buy seedlings of local and foreign varieties.

On the garden day at 11.30 am, visitors will also have the opportunity to attend a lecture by gardener Riho Teras. “From the gooseberry to the heather, not forgetting the tundra heather – exciting heather flowers for the home garden”.. R. Teras will give instructions and tips on what to look out for when buying seedlings and how to grow heather in the home garden.

On the garden day, plants will be sold by a number of growers. On this occasion:
Anne Kähr-Haller, Asu Farm, Ellen Rajatalu, Elise Garden, Enno Farm, Haideaed,
Helga Nursery, Helle Treier, Kaevandi Garden, Karin Haav, Leanne Garden and Home,
Järvselja Nursery, Mädapea Manor, Nõo Garden Nursery, Nõrga Farm, Rebase Farm Nursery,
Riho Teras, Risttee Farm, Signe Lilled, Sommerista Garden, Sulev Savisaar, Valgeanso Farm, Vanaema Garden, Viktors Goba.
The University of Tartu Botanical Garden will also be exhibiting a selection of plants that you can buy to take home.

Admission to the garden day is free. You can also visit the botanic garden’s greenhouses and see the new exhibition dedicated to the 220th anniversary of the botanic garden.
A Botanic Gardens ticket is required to visit the greenhouses and the exhibition.

More information: University of Tartu Botanic Garden
Tartu University of Tartu Botanical Garden tel +372 737 6180 botaed@ut.ee
https://natmuseum.ut.ee/