The botanical garden of the Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics at the University in Zagreb was established in 1889 by the botanist Antun Heinz and the gardener-supervisor Viteslav Durchanek, on a space of about 4.7 ha. The main integral part of the garden is an arboretum which consists of free groups of trees and bushes which are ordered by phylogenetic and systematic relationship.
Plant and geographic group is in the west part of the garden. The central part is occupied by hothouses to which a flowery parterre is added, and from the west side of the parterre are the basins with water plants. Hot houses occupy a space of 837 m2, ten hot houses and an adequate number of sprouting patches serve for cultivating and spending the winter of some plants; a separate hot house serves for experiments.
Hot houses and sprouting patches are not public. In the south-west part of the garden there is a systematic field and along the big part of the southern frontier there is a nursery - garden. In this garden a great number of plant taxa is cultivated - about 10.000, out of which about 1.200 in the hot house, about 800 in the arboretum, about 1.000 in the plant and geographic groups, and the rest in the systematic field, sprouting patches and so on.