Where to Find Botanical Beauty in Buenos Aires
There’s no need to search, botanical beauty in Buenos Aires is abundant. Evident in the city’s outdoor green spaces and the numerous plant stores throughout, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the flora of Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires Botanical Garden “Jardin Botánico Charles Thays”
Considered the most admired gardener in Argentina, French-American landscape architect Charles Thays designed and built hundreds of public and private green spaces in the city of Buenos Aires and other cities throughout the country. Following Charles’ death in 1934, his pet project the Botanical Garden of Buenos Aires continues to bring fresh air to the city through the seven acres it spans.
The gardens are home to more native and non-native Argentine aromatic plants, trees, herbs, and cacti. You’ll find a Butterfly Garden full of the flying beauties and hummingbirds. There’s also five different greenhouses, but note they are reserved for private educational activities and generally not open on public visits. Entry to the garden is free.
Rose Garden “Paseo El Rosedal”
This was by far one of the most beautiful rose gardens I’ve ever seen. There are several points of entry for the garden – we walked in the back way close to the Sivori Museum where you can also cross over a beautiful white bridge and people watch the paddle boats. The park is well-manicured and scenic, with statues of famous poets throughout. The sprawling rose gardens are color-blocked, adding a nice sense of direction as your meander the gravel paths.
Vivero Potit
Almost every apartment building with terraces are exploding with green plants. There are hundreds of garden stores and nurseries in Buenos Aires, so supply is clearly keeping up with demand.
We strolled by this one store Vivero Potit in Palermo and found they had a diverse supply of indoor/outdoor plants along with cutesy garden gifts. Most of the stores stocked plants and flowers found in California, further showing us how similar the micro-climates of Argentina are to our home state.
As we’re just passing through Buenos Aires we didn’t purchase any plants, but did our fare share of window shopping and recommend you do the same on your travel through.
Finally, one of the most accessible places to find botanical beauty in Buenos Aires are it’s restaurants. Out of those we visited, these boasted the best green spaces: