The Botanical Garden was founded in 1803 by Professor G. Herman. He was also his first manager. Construction work and planning involved Garden head gardener IA Weinmann. In 1811, a professor of natural sciences KF Ledebour was elected director of the botanical garden, he faithfully fulfilled his duties for 25 years. Thanks to his efforts and enthusiasm of the garden grew and today it has reached a size of 3, 5 hectares. Memorial plates, as well as monuments in the park keep the memory of the famous botanist working for the benefit of the Botanical Garden.

Before greenhouses located Department of Plant Taxonomy, created in 1870. This collection helps students to comprehend the basics of botany and plant lovers to have a wonderful opportunity to get acquainted with rare species.

To the right of the main entrance is the garden of monocots in which the plants are arranged according to the principle of region of origin. The collection of about 300 species of monocots, including many bulbs and tubers, flowering in spring and early summer.

Before the palm conservatory system botanist Adolf Engler planted dicotyledons. For this universally-recognized system that is used by many botanical gardens to this day, characterized by the fact that plants are represented through their evolution. In this collection of about 800 species of plants. Here are both annual and perennial crops. Among the dicotyledons, it is possible to see such unfamiliar Estonia crop plants such as lentils, artichokes, buckwheat, flax, tobacco and others.

Park Botanical Gardens occupies a large part of it. It is divided into 3 sections: Europe, North America and East Asia. Valuable item in the European part of the park is the most "fat" Maple Estonia. In the East Asian Department of growing old hazel and Amur cork, and different kinds of maple. Under the tree crops are growing herbaceous plants of the same natural area. By the same principle established Minneotskaya grove in the North American part of the park.

The park is a collection of perennial ornamentals. On the southern slope grow such rare plants for Estonia as ginkgo biloba and Liriodendron tulipifera. Over the ramparts is a collection of irises, represented more than 60 varieties. In the other half of the garden is a large, consisting of 250 varieties, the collection of peonies. This garden of peonies, blooming from mid-June until the end of July, was established in 2004.

From the river Emajõgi garden grow clematis, flowering from late July to frost the most. The color scheme of the collection varies from white to dark red. Species diversity of plant flower beds varies annually. Each year, they try to decorate flower beds with new and more rare species of plants. The biggest bed located on the left side of the palm greenhouse. At the center of the garden in a hollow on the slopes of the former bastion of St. George is a rock garden. Most of the plants native to the upper boundary of the forest zone and alpine mountain meadows.

In the eastern corner of the garden is the rose garden, which grows about 250 species of roses. This corner of the garden during the mass flowering roses attracts visitors with its colorful and varied palette of colors and attracts a wonderful bouquet of flavors. In the western part of the botanical garden plants presented the Estonian flora.

The Palm House is growing 58 species of palms. The oldest is 90-year-old Canary Island date palm. Washington is the highest thread-like, with a height of 20 meters. In the right corner of the bananas grow under them is a pool in which float fish and aquatic turtles. In addition, in the conservatory live budgerigar, nimfovy and Senegalese.

The subtropical greenhouse plants collected from all over the subtropical zone. There are plants from Australia, Africa, New Zealand, Japan, America and other. Countries. In the tropical greenhouse consist principally of plants brought from America

In the greenhouse of succulents, which occupies an area of ​​100 square meters, there are about 600 species of plants. Here are the different types of aloe, aeonium and Jade. Also grow plants from the family of cactus and agave. The oldest and the biggest cactus greenhouse is ECHINOCACTUS GRUSONII called by the people "Teschin chair."