[1] Besides aesthetic purposes, the garden was a ground to experiment with the breeding of plants native to more southern regions.

[2] In 1750, the Küchengarten in Linden (now also part of Hanover) grew produce for the palace, and the Berggarten was turned into a botanical garden.

King Ernest Augustus, who died one year after completion, was interred there with his wife Queen Frederica.

In 1957, further members of the Royal Family of Hanover, including King George I of Great Britain and his parents, were interred in the garden's mausoleum.

The remains of John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, his daughter Anna Sophie (1670–1672), Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Luneburg and his wife Sophia of the Palatinate, their younger son Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany and Princess Charlotte of Clarence (1819–1819), daughter of William IV of the United Kingdom, were interred, while the graves of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick and his wife Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia are in front of the mausoleum.

It housed a tropical landscape containing plants, butterflies and birds, in several themed gardens.