Through 130 million years of flowering plants, the co-evolution with pollinating insects has been the main reason for the great variation in colours, forms and scents that we find in flowering plants today. In the Systemic Garden, you can see some of the results of this continuous evolution. 

The Systematic Garden consists of 50 'rooms', each containing one or a few closely related plant families. The way the rooms are organized, and the passages linking them, illustrates the relationships between different groups of plants. The further apart the rooms are placed, the less related are the plants within them.

The Systematic Garden contains about a thousand species. In addition to the rich variation of flowers, this section also offers a wonderful opportunity to study other adaptations in plants, like different types of fruits, and seed dispersal mechanisms.