Jesperhus Flower Park

Jesperhus started as a market garden and grew into what is generally described as the largest flower park in northern Europe, with something like half a million bedding plants set out each year across formal beds, themed gardens and topiary figures, most of it replanted annually to a new design. Around the planting the site has expanded into a general family attraction with a butterfly house, an aquarium, a small zoo with birds and reptiles, a minigolf course, an indoor water park and a large holiday village of cabins, so it functions as much as a holiday resort as a garden. The flower displays peak from June to August, and the site puts on illuminated evenings in late summer.

What you actually see

• Half a million bedding plants - replanted to a new scheme every year.
• Topiary figures - clipped and planted forms through the gardens.
• The butterfly house - tropical species under glass.
• The small zoo and aquarium - birds, reptiles and tanks on the same ticket.

When to go

May to September, with the flower display at its best from late June to August. Half a day. Danish school holidays are the busiest weeks. Illuminated evenings run in late summer.

Honest expectations

It is a commercial family attraction rather than a botanical garden, and the planting is bedding schemes rather than a collection. Ticket prices are high. The added attractions vary in quality. Outside the flowering season much of the point is lost.

Nearby

Hanklit is north; Nykobing Mors and the Limfjord are south.