Botanical Garden Zurich is one of the most popular tourist attractions. The lush green garden is a visual treat for all. This garden in Zurich is the most desired green spot amidst the quintessential urban civilization. Not only the tourists but the local people also visit the cool shadowy Botanical Garden in Zurich. It is a place worth visiting at any time of the year.
Botanical Garden Zurich is also known as Botanischer Garten. It is a part of the Zurich University. The gar-den preserves a large number of rare plants, as many as a variety of 15,000 species. Some uncommon sam-ples from other places like Southwest Africa and New Caledonia have also found their places in the Zurich Botanical Garden.
The Botanischer Garten der Universität displays greenhouses, which are open everyday from 9.30 to 11.30 in the morning and 1 to 4 in the afternoon. The Zurich botanical park is open for the visitors from 7 in the morning to 7 in the evening in the months of March to September. Only on the Saturdays and Sundays the timings are from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. During October to February, the park is open from 8am - 6pm on week-days and on weekends, the timings are from 8am -5pm.
Apart from being a leisure and recreational park, the botanical garden also plays the role of an educational institution for the botany students of the University of Zurich.
The address of the Zurich Botanicher Garten der Universität is as follows:
Zollikerstrasse 107,
CH-8000 Zurich,
Switzerland.
