Giardino Botanico A. Heller

Botanical Park Lake Garda, Italy

The André Heller Botanical Garden, also known as the A. Hruska Botanical Garden, is a botanical garden located on the grounds of the André Heller Foundation in Gardone Riviera. The garden was founded around 1901 by Arturo Hruska, an Austrian dentist and botanist, who from 1910 to 1971 collected many species on the basis of his villa, organized as a dense bamboo forest, Japanese ponds, streams and waterfalls, so like alpine plants in ravines.

Since 1988 it has been owned by the artist André Heller, and now contains interesting sculptures by Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein and so on, set among more than 500 species including cacti, edelweiss, ferns including Osmunda regalis, magnolias, orchids, water lilies, and trees.