The garden was established in 1974 and currently contains about 6000 species, with a focus on plants of temperate climates. Its outdoor gardens are organized as follows:

Geographic gardens – alpine garden, Central Europe, Caucasus, Northeast Asia, Japan, China, North America, and South America.

Ecological gardens – heath, moor, pine forest, fruit trees, and wild flowers.

Other gardens – systematic garden, medicinal garden, crops, cottage garden, conifers, summer flowers, plants of volcanic soils, morphology, endangered species, and carnivorous plants.

The garden also contains a greenhouse complex including:
Central dome – about 400 species from the Mediterranean region and Canary Islands, and also from Australia, New Zealand, Asia, South Africa, Chile, and California.

Orangery – overwintering of plants from Mediterranean regions, conifers from the southern hemisphere, and Pyrophytes from Australia and South Africa.

South Africa house – South African steppe vegetation.