The present landscape of the park consists of picturesque nature ambients and arranged traces of human creativity. The forests of Orlica, riparian vegetation along the waterways and the exceptional vegetation of high dry grasslands are the essential landscape elements of the protected area.

With their persistence and creative power, people have imprinted typical features of land use in the area of today's park. The centuries of human activities have turned Kozjansko into a picturesque cultural landscape.

Steep slopes vegetated with beech forest are interrupted only by single meadows, fields, orchards and distant farm houses. Rare individuals farm in a traditional way. The outstanding castle location adds value and variety to the landscape.

A typical feature of hills and valleys along the Bistrica river is mosaic intertwining; the villages are surrounded by a green belt of grassland orchards, meadows and fields. Here you can find typical medieval squares with churches, chapels and signs on crossroads, vineyards on sun-kissed slopes, fruit tree promenades, woods, single trees and rich architectural heritage of farm houses.

The lowland along the Sotla certainly adds to the landscape diversity of the protected area because of its rich vegetation, numerous animal species and its typical riparian vegetation that forms a spatial division of lowland.

Pišece castle garden The garden was planned in the spirit of English landscape. There are some remains of a formally arranged terrace garden on the southern side. The garden is rich with exotic trees: Catalpa bignonioides, plane tree, tulip tree, Cryptomeria japonica, Gleditsia sp., ginkgo, red beech and three magnificent sequoias. The original forest has almost overgrown the initial park plan.

Monastery gardens in Olimje The mansion, first built by Hans Tattenbach in 1550, was occupied by the Pauline eremite order in 1663. The famous apothecary in the circular tower has an exceptional monumental value. Paulines cultivated the fields, grew wine, caught fish, and they were also practicing healing and pharmacology. The apothecary was functionally bound to both gardens next to the monastery. While the monastery was being rebuilt, a lot of attention was paid to both gardens, too. The vegetable and herbal garden can also be admired on Visher's copper engraving from 1681. The archaeological excavations enlightened the past size of the herbal garden and they proved the existence of a garden wall that used to surround it. These days, the vegetable garden allotment is supported by a massive rock scarp. During the reconstruction, the conservators used plant illustrations from the apothecary and the motifs from the presbytery. They studied the list of herbs and vegetables from St. Gallen monastery whose gardening tradition was passed to subsequent monasteries.