Ulm Botanical garden located on 28 hectares, is one of the largest University gardens Germany. Its creation began not so long ago, in 1981, on the Southeast of the University complex.

In 1986, built the first greenhouse in 1997 two - for tropical plants, where visitors can see and learn many interesting facts about the vegetation of the tropics. With the support of the pharmaceutical company Ratiopharm in 2001 was created the garden of medicinal plants, in which botany specialists, technologists and pharmacists conduct a joint study of medicinal properties of herbs. In 2000, Botanical garden of Ulm supplemented with a so-called "farmer's garden". In it, the scientists work on the development of new and improvement of existing varieties of fruit cultivated plants.

All 30 years of its existence, the Botanical garden of Ulm has grown strikingly diverse collections of plants. She has more than 80 thousand copies of herbs, shrubs and trees from Europe, South and Central America. Among them about 50 thousand species of tropical plants and 20 thousand specimens of mosses and lichens.

Ulm Botanical garden is open to visitors all year round, but particularly beautiful in spring and summer during the active flowering plants in such offices as the rose garden and a garden of lilies. Professional guides conduct a variety of exciting excursions through the garden: or thematic review.