Vegetables and fruit, even bananas and citrus fruits, cultivated and tended by experienced gardeners, were once supplied from the kitchen garden to the Grand Duke’s kitchen.  Surrounded by a brick wall and with one heated and one cold greenhouse to hold delicate plants in winter, this garden was well protected and – according to the requirements of the period – well equipped.  At the 2009 German Federal Horticultural Exhibition in Schwerin the Kitchen Garden will be restored to its original function, even if its content is all very new.

Here there will be displays showing the latest breeding techniques for agricultural crops.  Vegetables, herbs and vines will be found alongside berry-bearing bushes and fruit trees, climbing roses and plants growing in tubs.

In addition, the Kitchen Garden will accommodate the magnet for the general public at any garden show – the indoor displays, of which there will be a total of 20 to admire in magnificent glass halls.  The design of the outdoor areas will span everything from the past to the present, which already offers us a glimpse into the future. During the 2009 German Federal Horticultural Exhibition in Schwerin the Kitchen Garden as designed and used over 100 years ago will embrace its modern counterpart, combining the beautiful with the serviceable.

The Seven Gardens

Map of Gardens