The Botanical Garden, located on the shores of Lake Kuivasjärvi in the northern part of the city, is the research base of the Faculty of Biology at the University of Oulu. Many different plants, including exotic ones, are grown here thanks to seed exchanges between universities in Western Europe, Russia, Canada and the USA.
The Botanical Garden has two enormous greenhouses, which are built in two huge greenhouses.
In two huge glass pyramid greenhouses, only heat-loving plants from the equator to the subtropics are collected. These greenhouses have been given the romantic name Romeo and Juliet. Their design allows you to grow plants of different heights without overshadowing each other. The climatic conditions in this polar oasis are automatically maintained.
Romeo's greenhouse, 16 metres high, contains plants of the humid subtropics - banana and coconut palms, lianas, coffee trees, cocoa trees, climbing vines and eliphytes growing on trees. The fourteen metre Juliet has Mediterranean citrus trees, olive trees, myrtle trees and delicious pineapples. Among the paths and lawns are amazing lithops, called living stones, as well as giant sequoias, ornamental cedars, some mahogany, and New Zealand ferns and orchids. In all, there are about 1,000 varieties of flora represented in the greenhouses.
The greenhouses are surrounded by an arboretum where trees and shrubs, grouped by their geographical origin - Asian, Eurasian, European and American - grow in natural conditions. These are real theme parks, consisting of 4,000 different specimens. A special place is reserved for medicinal plants.
