The school garden can primarily be seen as a space that needs to be designed so that it can be used for upbringing and education. The establishment of a school garden, ie its arrangement, shapes the outdoor classroom, and the inclusion of certain facilities such as experimental beds, greenhouses and other facilities expands the possibilities that can serve as a teacher's aid for visual training. Every school garden is special, some are smaller, some are bigger, some have fewer facilities, some more, and yet each of them fulfills the same purpose, and that is upbringing and education. The main goal of this paper was to present the historical development, ie the function of school gardens and provide the most necessary information related to the arrangement of school gardens, and examine the current state of the same in the City of Zagreb. The theoretical part of the paper presents the history and appearance of school gardens, and the empirical part presents data collected by research. The last chapter gives examples of three school gardens in the City of Zagreb, Davorin Trstenjak Elementary School, Jordanovac Elementary School and Granešina Elementary School. The research was conducted on a sample of 80 primary schools in the City of Zagreb. Data were collected by telephone questionnaire. The results of the research showed that in 42.50 % of schools there is a school garden while in 57.50 % there is none. There has been an increase in the establishment of school gardens in the last five years. However, the data obtained from the research do not confirm that there is an interest in establishing them in schools that do not have them. The three most common objective obstacles stand out as the reason for the non-existence of the school garden, namely: lack of space for the school garden within the school yard, lack of financial resources and lack of time in the teacher's curriculum.