A plan of the garden is always only a snapshot, because gardens change their face continuously. The changes occur cyclically over time according to phenology and linearly with the addition or removal of garden elements; the same applies in particular to large and thus characteristic trees or groups of trees that enrich every garden and are a constituent garden element: They follow a species-typical cycle other than the annual vegetation cycle. Some trees hardly live to be a hundred, some even several hundred years old, such as lime trees.
The garden plan shown here roughly depicts the design of the 2,000m² area of the school and research garden at the current time (2015). This was based on the local conditions as well as on the requirements of an ecological teaching, learning and research garden. Conditions were, for example, existing large trees that form the middle, forest-like area of the garden: Field, Norway and sycamore maple as well as summer lime and silver willow divide the southern "dry grassland area" from the northern "scattered fruit area", which was created in 2014 and complements the row of scattered fruit trees already planted in 2011.
Infrastructural garden facilities required for work, such as a tool shed, composting facility and green classroom, are intended to facilitate work in the garden: they are connected to each other and to the biotope elements via paths. You can find more information on the individual biotope elements and especially on the greenhouse in the corresponding menu items.
