Botanic Garden – Indoor tropical oasis in the city

I am not a person who loves flowers or plants, but I think you don’t need to be in order to love this place! Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden is historically and architecturally a remarkable place to visit. For me personally it is a really calming place to visit.

The Botanical Garden was originally established in the city of Turku during 1678. Over years later in 1829, The Garden moved to its present location at Kaisaniemi in Helsinki in 1829 and opened to the public in 1833.

Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden is an attractive old systematic style garden with several old Empire style buildings from the 1830′s. A small area is displaying a restricted amount of ornamentals. At the end of the year 2000 there were 2,889 plants of different origin.

The oldest and largest part of the greenhouses is the Palm House. The greenhouse collections were totally lost during the World War II when three bombs struck the garden in February 1944 and badly damaged the greenhouses. Only one cypress (most probably Cupressus sempervirens) remained alive. Also the Giant Waterlily (Victoria cruziana) was saved since the seeds remained alive at the bottom of frozen pool.

This Botanic Garden and the entire area is a great spot to visit for lovers and for families with kids.

Finland´s Eurovision song contest 2011 participant Paradise Oscars competition song´s (Da Da Dam) music video was shot here! Watch the music video and enjoy the Finnish music and get to know this beautiful place.