An area set aside for a rock garden was included in the very first sketches of The Botanical Area, made in 1989. Although at that time, it was undecided how the rock garden should be constructed, and when landscaping of The Botanical Area was first begun in 2006 there were several suggestions under consideration.
Of course, one thing was sure about the rock garden from the start, and that was that this plant of the garden would be planted with alpine plants and for these plants to thrive in Denmark some basic requirements must be met. It was decided, therefore, that the rock garden should be built as a crevice bed.