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Bergius Botanical Garden in Norra Djurgården near Stockholm
An oasis beside a busy traffic artery
The Bergius Botanical Garden is located on Brunnsviken in Stockholm and is a popular recreation area for the people of Stockholm all year round. The garden features laid out paths, flat rocks and places to sit by the waterside enjoying the natural surroundings and taking inspiration from the wonderful flora. In the winter skaters make their way to Brunnsviken.
The purpose of the garden is twofold: research and education, and providing garden experiences, knowledge and inspiration to the general public. The garden is also part of Stockholm's National City Park.
The Bergius brothers
The garden was originally an eighteenth century country estate, Bergielund, which lay between Karlbergsvägen, Vasaparken and the Sabbattsbergs hospital and was owned by brothers Bengt and Peter Jonas Bergius. In 1791 the garden was bequeathed to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to be run as a horticultural college and research facility for "the public good".
Garden moves out of the city
In 1885 the professor in charge of the garden at the time, Veit Brecher Wittrock, moved the garden to Frescati in Norra Djurgården. The new Bergius Botanical Garden was designed as a botanical garden, with plants organised by species and geographical origin. The topography of the site was put to good use with winding paths, steps and terraces. Pools were dug out in marshy ground and open spaces were divided systematically into separate areas.
Two large greenhouses and plants for sale
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Bergius Foundation owned and managed the garden until 1969, when the state took over the running of the majority of the site. The Bergius Botanical Garden has seen several changes over the past century. The foundation no longer sells plants and the horticultural college no longer exists but parts of Wittrock's garden are still preserved in today's garden. Today the Bergius Foundation runs Edvard Anderson's greenhouse, opened in 1995. The foundation also includes a research institution.
Stockholm University runs the outdoor gardens, the Victoria greenhouse and the tropical areas in Edvard Anderson's greenhouse.
External link
- Bergianska trädgården (in Swedish)
In brief
- Address: Frescati, Stockholm
- Manager: Ulrika Nylander, National Property Board, Phone +46 8 696 72 86, E-mail ulrika.nylander@sfv.se
- Christina Olsson, landscape architect, National Property Board, Phone +46 8 696 70 84, E-mail christina.olsson@sfv.se
Photo: Lena Gårder
The Italian terrace overlooking Brunnsviken was built in 1900.
Photo: Lena Gårder
Part of the Bergius Botanical Garden with the tower in the background.
Photo: Kjell Söderbaum AB
The Victoria greenhouse, over a hundred years old, glimpsed through the trees.
Photo: Kjell Söderbaum AB
The Victoria greenhouse from inside. Plants include the world's largest water lily, the Victoria water lily.
Photo: Lena Gårder
The Bergius Botanical Garden is part of the National City Park and forms a section of a long-distance path running along the shore of Brunnsviken bay and Ålkistan canal in Stockholm and Solna.
How to find your way
- Eniros map (in Swedish)
