Denmark has several huge parks and gardens, and one of them is unique – Geographical Garden in Kolding. Nowadays it is an adventure park of 14 hectares and a botanic garden with 2000 various trees, plants, bushes, and animals. All of it started with an idea of enthusiast Aksel Olsen. He studied in the nurseries of Germany and Austria and was interested in insufficiently explored plants, trees, and flowers.
Firstly, there was a forest in place of the garden, in 1917 – a forest nursery. That year, Olsen bought a 14-acres land in the nursery to collect rare plants from Siberia and Middle Asia.
Later Olsen decided to organize a garden, where the plants would be placed according to the place of their geographical origin: South-Eastern Asia, Northern and Southern America, China, Japan, Korea, Middle Asia, and Siberia.
Besides, Geographical Garden has a collection of big and small gardens as well as thematic ones: Rose Garden, medicinal herbs and Bamboo Groove. You can also visit orangeries and animal yards and a 100-years garden with trees, sculptural bushes, and perennial plants and herbs.
Rosenhave is an area in the garden with more than 500 roses sorts and rosarium, and Sivadalen is a place with caves and streams. The garden also has its city - Kolding Miniby, a collection of 400 miniature houses, illustrating the urban atmosphere for 1860-1870 years.
In 1985, in honor of Aksel Olsen, the government installed a memorial stone in the garden.