The Tivoli park's glasshouse, located in the immediate vicinity of the park's fish pond, has been abandoned until recently.

Earlier this year it was made available for use by the Ljubljana Botanic Garden, which will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2010. The glasshouse has been altered to some extent and made suitable for housing an exhibition of tropical and carnivorous plants open to visitors to the Tivoli park free of charge. The glasshouse reinstatement project found favour with Ljubljana Tourism, which provided financial support.

The Tivoli's glasshouse is a good choice for those wishing to get to know some of the plants from the warm, particularly tropical parts of the world and some of those thriving in poor soil. The latter are mainly carnivorous plants. Despite what their name may suggest, they are not frightening at all; they are simply delicate plants compensating for the lack of nutrients in the soil by using their varying traps to catch an insect from time to time, secrete digestive juices into their traps, digest the insect and slowly absorb the nutrients missing from the soil.

The plants displayed in the glasshouse include several tropical plants which people normally know how to use but do not know what they look like, such as pineapple, the plants from the pepper family, coffee, and vanilla orchids. Apart from pineapple, visitors are also able to see a variety of other bromeliads, some of which have extremely attractive flowers. Also on view are yellow oleander, medinilla, a number of plants with brightly coloured foliage flourishing in the undergrowth, and some of the plants interesting because of the way they collect water in their bracts.

Admission to the glasshouse is free. Opening hours are from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays.

Plans have been made for the glasshouse to run a varied programme of activities, including collaboration with the organizers of the project "Library under Trees", workshops for all ages of people interested in plants and gardening, and exhibitions related to horticulture. Some of the plants grown in the glasshouse are available for purchase.

The total glasshouse renovation cost of €27,000 was split between the Ljubljana Botanic Garden (€17,000) and Tourism Ljubljana (€10,000).