Changes in lifestyle, economy, and urbanization drastically modify the way of planning and selecting the species in rural gardens. More and more people are, due to work, related to the cities. That leads to the abandonment of the villages as places of residence and results with neglecting rural gardens or planting plants that do not require too much care because most people come to the country only on weekends. Due to declining number of the older population, there is a growing possibility of the disappearance of old-fashioned plant species as well as forgetfulness vintage titles. The owners of rural tourism farms are still trying to keep the traditional values of their region and present them to the guests. Due to ignorance of the tradition or the failure to recognize the importance of landscaping, selection of plant species are commonly wrong, or the phenomenon of kitsch is occurring, which results in the wrong way of representing the place. The objectives of this study were: to determine the flower species which were traditionally used in rural gardens in the area Petrovsko (Krapina - Zagorje); inventoried the plant species in the complex of the rural estate for tourist Petrovskog; propose a plant species for the rural complex tourist industry in the traditional manner. With the fieldwork research of gardens, plant species which are used. Also, their taxonomic affiliation is determined. With the interviewing method, it is found that a larger number of utilitarian plant species was used in the past while with the inventory of gardens, a greater number of ornamental species was determined today. Those results lead to the conclusion that more and more young people devote less time to treatment soil and cultivate the utilitarian plants.