The LPKiW Garden is a municipal garden covering an area of 60 ha; admission is free. Currently, 820 species grow here, including 460 species of wild plants. The spatial development concept for the Botanical Garden, developed in 1977 by Prof. Edward Bartman, defined the general principles for the Garden’s construction and program. Its development began in 1980.

The proposed habitat-based concept focuses primarily on the conservation, shaping, and display of native plant communities and species.
Alongside these, non-native plant formations as well as numerous generic collections and thematic exhibits are being created.

The main sections of the Garden are:
1. Plant Communities of Poland
2. Arboretum
3. Conifer Garden
4. Rock Garden
5. Genus Collections
6. Thematic Exhibitions
7. Agrobotanical Garden
8. Botanical Trail for the Blind and Visually Impaired

1. Plant Communities of Poland is the most important and largest section of the Garden. It covers an area of 20 ha. The plant species presented here are displayed in the communities and formations in which they naturally occur. Among the numerous plant communities found on the grounds, the forest communities (oak-hornbeam forests, beech-oak forests, riparian forests, and sycamore forests), aquatic and reedbed vegetation, meadows, and grasslands are particularly noteworthy.

2. The detailed arboretum design prepared by Prof. Stanisław Balcerkiewicz and Dr. Maciej Korczyński in 2001 aims to showcase the dendroflora of selected global forest formations. Among others, the arboretum will feature North American forests, euxine forests, broad-leaved forests, tundra vegetation, trees and shrubs from desert regions, and sclerophyllous vegetation. The arboretum will be complemented by numerous collections and thematic exhibits, including: beeches, maples, roses, heather, legally protected plants, evergreens, and a spring garden.

3. The oldest established collection of trees and shrubs is the conifer garden. Designed by landscape architect Adam Pietrzak, it is an amphitheater-style layout in which shrub species are arranged in bands, from shorter to taller, up to clusters of tall trees. Here you can see numerous species and varieties of firs, spruces, junipers, and cypresses, as well as hemlock, microbiota, and ginkgo. The Conifer Garden is spatially extended by a collection of thuja trees.

4. The most spectacular feature of the Garden is the rock garden. Relative elevations reaching up to 20 meters and the site’s interesting topography allow for the creation of characteristic mountain features: cliffs, ridges, gullies, scree slopes, and ravines. A small mountain lake with a stream and a waterfall has been designed in the center. The plantings in the alpine garden are closely tied to the constructed habitats and the rock material used in their construction. The granite section is dominated by mountain pine and Swiss stone pine. Among the limestone boulders, you can see edelweiss, eight-petaled oak, alpine carnation, and many others.

5. Tree and shrub genera, rich in species and varieties, are arranged in generic collections. Among others, the garden features collections of pines and rhododendrons, lilacs, a garden of flowering cherry and apple trees, magnolias, astilbes, and dogwoods.

6. The thematic displays in the Garden cover various areas of interest, and many of them are also educational in nature. Among the more interesting ones are: the butterfly garden, the vertical distribution of trees in the mountains, hybrids—parents and offspring, and plant sex.

7. A small section dedicated to cultivated plants has been designed in the enclosed part of the Botanical Garden. It features fruit trees of modern varieties as well as those no longer included in current selections. The collection of old apple varieties comes from the village of Chrystkowo and was organized in collaboration with the Lower Vistula Valley Landscape Park. In this part of the garden, along the Agro Trail, visitors can learn about : cereals, including buckwheat, millet, and flat-grain wheat; industrial crops; root crops; and small- and large-seeded legumes. A collection of medicinal plants is being developed in collaboration with the Academy Medical University.

8. The world of plants, arranged systematically, is presented along the botanical trail for the blind and visually impaired. Along a 300-meter-long guide railing, approximately 230 plant taxa have been planted in the ground and raised planters. All plants are labeled with Braille inscriptions.

The Botanical Garden in Myślęcinek

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