The TU Delft Botanical Garden was founded in 1917 in its present location. During the first decades the garden was involved mainly in education of students who specialized for positions in tropical countries, especially Indonesia, which then was the Dutch East Indies.

The Botanical Garden of the TU Delft is a public-oriented garden as well as a research garden. Together with the university gardens of Leiden and Utrecht, the Delft Garden participates in the scientific botanical network of the Netherlands. Delft particularly specialises in applied technological education and also in technological plant research.

The ‘Applied Botanical Garden’ has expanded its collection over the years and currently covers over 6000 taxa. Nowadays, the garden still retains applied plants as a major topic and many applied research programs are based on the plant collection.

Tip
Using your TU Delft campus card, you can always enter the garden for free! You can use the garden for reading your books or have a rest after a long day of study!

Sources
TU Delft Botanic Garden. (n.d.). Botanic Gardens Conservation International. https://tools.bgci.org/garden.php?id=68

Hortus botanicus. (n.d.). TU Delft. https://www.tudelft.nl/botanischetuin