Arktisch-Alpiner Pflanzengarten und Alpine Staudengärtnerei

Leisnig, Germany, Germany

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The Arktisch-Alpiner Pflanzengarten und Alpine Staudengärtnerei is a private botanical garden in OT Gorschmitz, Leisnig, Saxony, Germany, specializing in arctic and alpine plants and maintained by Danilo Geißler as an adjunct to his commercial nursery, which he took over from his parents in 2007 after they founded it in 1990.

The garden contains about 2,000 specimens of arctic and alpine plants organized into four geographic sections representing the European Dolomites mountains, the Canadian Rockies, the South Island of New Zealand, and Arctic regions from Finland to Murmansk. It also features a large collection of dwarf willow (Salix) species and ongoing experimental plantings.

The commercial nursery operates on 2,000 square meters with 22,000 plants in over 900 different species, specializing in alpine plants, Shortia, dwarf willows from around the world, rare Himalayan woody plants, and generally rare dwarf shrubs. The garden is open several days per week during warmer months without charge, while plant sales occur only by appointment at the nursery with no shipping available.