Rosarium or the amazing roses brought together here, at Botanical Garden Bucharest in 1976. These roses are kings and queens here on almost 1000 square meters. They assure an overwhelming view from summer to late autumn. There are 130 kind of roses, different shapes, colors and names at the Botanical Garden Bucharest. As we are living in Bucharest, we can tell you that the garden is worth visiting. We have been been here many times and, during summer is a pleasure to walk on the alleys. Avoid week-ends because it is crowded and if you want peace…but let’s see what you can see.

RARE ROSES AT BOTANICAL GARDEN BUCHAREST

You will find the awesome Floribunda with a lot of flowers but also lonely or soft roses. Scholars called them Super Star, Rapsody in Blue, Brandenburg. Others are Maria Callas, Chrysler Imperial or Queen Elisabeth. The Botanical Garden Bucharest is a cultural institution, part of Bucharest University. The lord Alexandru Ioan Cuza founded it in 1860, near COTROCENI PALACE. At the Botanical Garden in Bucharest you can see a lot of flowers and interesting trees. There is also an inside botanical garden with non-native trees and plants. 

BUCHAREST BOTANICAL GARDEN TIMETABLE AND FEES

Botanical Garden Bucharest can be visited from March to October, daily, from 8 AM to 8 PM. From October to March, the timetable is from 9 AM to 3 PM. 

One of the most interesting part of the garden is the greenhouse. You can visit it on Tuesday, Thursdays, Friday from 10 AM to 3 PM, while on Saturdays and Sundays from 9 AM to 1 PM. You are also welcomed in the tropical forest in this journey. 

FEES IN 2025

If you want to walk in the Botanical Garden Bucharest, you can buy tickets online from HERE. 

• • Adult ticket 10 RON = 2 Euros only for open gardens

• Adult ticket for Botanical Museum 10 RON = 2 Euros

Adult ticket for Greenhouse and tropical garden 10 RON = 2 Euros

For the Museum and the Greenhouse, you can buy tickets at the entrance, you would give you a piece of advice and have cash with you to pay. 

WHY IS THE BOTANICAL GARDEN BUCHAREST CALLED DIMITRIE BRANDZA?

There are more than 300,000 plants in the Botanical Garden Bucharest. It all started in 1855. A French doctor, Carol Davila who made the emergency system in the Romanian Country later, asked the lord Barbu Stirbey to built a botanical garden in the city. This Carol Davila was a friend of the ruler. He came from France in 1853 after he helped the French authorities get rid of the cholera epidemy. Davila was to stay in the Romanian country for only 3 years, but he remained here until his death in 1884. 

CAROL DAVILA, DIMITRIE BRANDZA AND THE BOTANICAL GARDEN BUCHAREST 

Carol Davila came in the Romanian country because lord Barbu Stirbey asked him to. He asked for a botanical garden in 1855 and in 1860, the new lord of Romania and Moldavia, Alexandru Ioan Cuza signed the act for it to be built. The first manager was Ulrich Hoffmann, a biologist who discovered in Romania more than 400 new plants. In 1874, authorities moved the Botanical Garden Bucharest in the center of the city. Right on a land that belonged to a boyar or landowner named Sutu. It is where, nowadays, you can visit Sutu Museum or The Museum of Bucharest. In 1874, the University of Bucharest, one of the oldest in the country took the Botanical  Garden into custody. 

 BOTANICAL GARDEN BUCHAREST 

Professor Dimitrie Brandza was the manager of the Botanical Garden when it was still in the nowadays University Square. He put pressure on authorities and in 1884 he got money for his project. Dimitrie Brandza also got a new land to arrange the garden we can visit today near Cotroceni Palace. It is interesting that the entire structure was made following the Botanical Garden in Liege design. In the memory of Dimitrie Brandza, biologists called new plants after his name, like Iris Brandzae, Verbascum Brandzae or Sapindus Brandzai. A Botanical Research Institute and a Botanical Museum were founded here and worked until April 4, 1944. In that moment the Botanical Garden in Bucharest had to face one of most devastating bombardments in World War II.

MODERN HISTORY OF THE GARDEN

You can see here the first trees that the project manager planted more than 150  years ago. In 1954, they built more greenhouses and many of them are still sources for new plants. The Botanical Institute in Bucharest started to work and here scientists in micro-biology and genetics used to come to their job.

WHAT TO SEE AT BOTANICAL GARDEN IN BUCHAREST

You can see the great exhibition, where there are tropical plants, huge palm or banana trees, awesome members of the orchids family and gigantic decorative trees. There are also wild ferns. In the greenhouses you need only one hour, or one hour and half to see all plants and trees and make free amazing pictures.
The Decorative Sector is at the entrance in the Botanical Garden. Here you can find more than 500 plants that assure all over the year a great view. The flowers, Tullipa collection, Paeonia and not only, are cultivated in large groups. It was arranged in 1956.

RARE PLANTS SECTOR IN BUCHAREST BOTANICAL GARDEN

Rare Plants Sector is the home of rare, special plants that need protection in Europe. They found it here and many of them would have been gone for a long time now if this area of the Botanical Garden hadn’t been arranged in 1962. There are plants from Dobrogea or southern Muntenia but no only. So, while you travel to Bucharest, you can visit the rare plants sector. Pay attention, here scientists have a lot of work to do, taking care of plants in Paeonia family, Salvia transilvanica or Fritillaria orientalis. If you love nature and also reptiles, do not forget to visit REPTILAND BUCHAREST THE LIVE REPTILES EXHIBITION. 

THE MEDITERANEAN SECTOR IN BOTANICAL GARDEN BUCHAREST

The Mediteranean Sector is a special area of the Botanical Garden. You can find here more than 100 species of plants with Mediteranean origin but which appeared spontaneously in Romania, in the southern part of the country. An explosion of colours and smells given by Hyacinthus, Bituminaria, Calendula or Melissa oficinalis is waiting for you in this area. Children are always happy here. If you want to show them something even more interesting, go to TOYS MUSEUM BUCHAREST! Show them how children played in the past. It is an awesome lesson. 

WHAT TO SEE AT BOTANICAL GARDEN BUCHAREST

The Italian Garden Sector is geometrically arranged near the Botanical Institute and near the old greenhouse. In the middle of the area there is a basin perfect for water plants like Nymphaea alba. This space is the best option when you need to have a break after a visiting tour around Cotroceni area or other part of Bucharest. If you plan to visit Bucharest in October, the weather is just fine.

Carpathian Mountains Sector is something you must not miss. This area is the entire Carpathian flora in only a few square meters. And the Carpathian Mountains are an amazing place for tourists all over the world. You will find in this sector Fagus sylvatica, spread all over the forests in Romania, Carpinus betulus, also found in Romanian mountains or Betula pendula. A special area is that of fir trees: Abies alba, Picea abies or Pinus sylvestris. It will be for sure a travel inside an area with lot of fresh air. Beautiful flowers and trees are also to be seen at CIRCUS PARK BUCHAREST.

 See more information on the BOTANICAL GARDEN BUCHAREST WEBSITE.

The garden has 17.000 square meters, can be the perfect place for a relaxing walk, or the start for a walking tour in Cotroceni area to SCHOOL OF WAR,  OPERA and University.