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Rapid urbanization is destroying natural ecosystems and damaging the environmental quality of towns (Alberti and Marzluff, 2004). Climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation and the desire to intensify cohabitation with the nature have all enhanced our interest in the ecological trend of the planting design. The interest of landscape architects focuses on the innovative planting design with:  the possibility of cost reduction in planning, establishment and maintenance,  enhancing habitat and food for fauna within extended flowering,  providing multiple ecosystem services. The low-cost planting design, for example pictorial meadow or prairie planting requires only annual mowing once established, with no fertilizers or fungicides, and few if any herbicides (Diboll, 2004). The extended flowering meadow and prairie grasses and flowers create high-quality habitats for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife. The self-sustaining plant communities of planting meadow and prairie provide landscape beauty for decades to come and participate in ecological services: temperature reduction, erosion control on slopes and disturbed ground, stream and riverbank stabilization, excess nutrient absorption in wetlands, soil phytoremediation of contaminated soil, or provides food and/or habitat for wildlife (Iuliana, et al., 2011; Seiter, 2016). The deep-rooted forb plants encourage infiltration of rainwater into the soil, thus reducing stormwater runoff and flooding, and can also serve as buffer strips between maintained turf and wetland areas, such as ponds, waterways, and marshes (Diboll, 2004). The research experience and expertise of innovative planting design must be continuously transformed into lifelong learning and determination for new research. The Interactive Experimental Garden at the Horticulture and Landscape Engineering Faculty of the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra has become an educational and research platform for experiential education, lifelong learning, and self-education within the innovative planting design. The aim of this article is to present the importance of the Interactive Experimental Garden and their website as an opportunity platform for:  comparison of approaches in the innovative low-cost planting design; InTERACTIVE ExPERIMEnTAL GARDEn – A PLATFoRM FoR LIFELonG LEARnInG AnD RESEARCH In InnoVATIVE PLAnTInG DESIGn

Interactive Experimental Garden – a Platform for Lifelong Learning and Research in Innovative Planting Design