Tartu Botanic Garden

The Botanical Garden of the University of Tartu was founded in 1803, near what is now the Old house of Theater Vanemuine .

In 1806 the garden was moved to more appropriate place on the ruins of the old city wall and fortifications near the river and ponds. The first director of the garden was Prof. Gottfried Albrecht Germann and the first chief gardener in duty was Johann Anton Weinmann.

The first master plan of the garden was created by Weinmann and serves until today. I

n 1811 Prof. Carl Friedrich Ledebour was nominated the Director. Under his active leadership, the collections of the garden was enriched with many new species, collected from Siberia and other unexplored regions of the Russian Empire, and first described by Ledebour. Most of them reached Western Europe through our garden. Many other famous botanists as Trautvetter, Maximovicz, Bunge, Russow, Kuznetsov, Lippmaa have contributed to the development of this beautiful garden. The garden contains several monuments grateful revive the memory of our predecessors contribution.

The Botanical Garden maintains its main function to be reseach base for  students, visitors who are insterested in and garden botany, horticulture and nature.

Introduces the new garden of ornamental plants. Strong emphasis is placed on garde decoration techniques, in order to make a viable and attractive horticulture home and hobbies.

Botanic Garden new aim is to focus on collecting and reproducing rare and protected plants, and the scientific and plant a seed organization and implementation of the work of cultural value.