Botanical Gardens, located on the shores of Lake Kuyvasyarvi in ​​the northern part of the city, is the scientific basis of the biological faculty of the University of Oulu. There grown many kinds of plants, including exotic, through the exchange of seeds between universities in Western Europe, Russia, Canada and the United States.

The two huge greenhouses built in the form of a glass pyramid, collected only heat-loving plants that grow from the equator to the subtropics. These greenhouses have given a romantic name - Romeo and Juliet. Their design allows you to grow a variety of plants in height, not obscuring each other. Climatic conditions in this polar oasis supported automatically.

In a greenhouse Romeo height of 16 m, it is humid subtropical plants - banana and coconut trees, vines, coffee trees, cacao trees, climbing up the vines and elifity growing on the trees. In chetyrnadtsatimetrovoy Juliet grow Mediterranean citrus, olive, myrtle trees and tasty pineapples. Among the paths and lawns there are amazing Lithops called living stones, and giant sequoias, cedars breeds, some kinds of mahogany, as well as New Zealand ferns and orchids. Just greenhouses represented about 1,000 species of flora.

Greenhouses are surrounded by an arboretum where naturally grow trees and shrubs, grouped according to their geographic origin - Asian, Eurasian, European and American. This is a real theme parks, consisting of 4,000 different copies. A special place reserved for medicinal plants.