The most beautiful places of Georgia in Adjara are the Botanical Garden in Batumi.
The National Batumi Botanical Garden is part of the Colchis Nature Reserve. If you walk it along the coast, the path will be 1 km. One of the most beautiful places in Georgia, the garden has everything for tourists to relax. A ticket to costs 15 lari.
Visit the Botanical garden in Batumi⬇️
Botanical Garden cities of Batumi It is located in the western region of Georgia – Adjara, 9 km from the city of park. From a geographical point of view, the park is located in a very favorable place – between two rivers: Chakvistskali and the Green Cape. This location creates a unique microclimate of the park, which allows you to grow plants that need a tropical and subtropical climate.. National Garden of Batumi it stretches along the coast for 1 km .
Batumi Garden is distinguished by its richness of vegetation of various species, it is one of the most extensive Botanical Parks in Georgia, its area is 111 hectares – this area is comparable to the area of hundreds of football fields! The territory of the park is huge, but it is very difficult to get lost here, because there are diagrams and signs at every corner, and when you buy a ticket you get a map of the park.
The history of the Batumi Garden began in 1912. According to the original plan, the park was supposed to contain various floral sketches with plants from all over the world, and the park was also part of the national reserve "Colchis".
A wide variety of flora attracts not only lovers of botany, but also tourists who prefer outdoor recreation.
The National Batumi Botanical Park is unique. There are no analogues of parks of this kind in the world, because not only plants sprouting in Georgia, endemic trees and red book flowers are concentrated here, but there are also plants native to temperate, equatorial and even tropical climatic zones, here they coexist, forming a unique natural landscape. If you love nature and its amazing beauty, then there is definitely something for you in the national park view in Georgia.
Dendroflora
The terrain of the Batumi Botanical Park is mountainous, the soil is rich in mineral and nutrient elements, especially humus, mainly red earth and brown earth.
Arboretums are a specialized area reserved for the cultivation and cultivation of various representatives of woody plants. There are three sections of the arboretum in the reserve, they are divided into nine departments, each of which belongs to a specific climatic zone. The collection of plants is collected from the most remote countries of the world: North and South America, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia and many others. Now in the floristic department you can count more than 5000 varieties of plants. Arboretums perform not only a decorative function, there scientists study the properties of plants and apply knowledge in their research and breeding activities.
Sights of Georgia they differ not only in their beauty, but also in their uniqueness. The arboretum in the National Botanical Garden of Batumi is no exception. Here you can find rare plant species collected from all over the world. For example, the Southern Cordillera, Nepalese evergreen alder or evergreen century-old oaks, various types (about 15) of magnolia and palm maple.
History
Декоративный garden in Georgia created by Mieczyslaw D'alfons. In 1881, he brought new plant species to Batumi and began to introduce styles of front garden decoration. The initiator of the global import of plants to the Black Sea coast was the eminent geographer and talented botanist Pavel Tatarinov, who with his own hands in 1882 created a park containing plants from various climatogeographic zones, now this park is called "Upper Park".
The creation of the botanical garden in Batumi is inextricably linked with the name of Professor Andrei Krasnov: on November 3, 1912, he began work on the organization of the garden.
The Botanical Park is not only a decorative value, but also a scientific one, on its basis research is carried out in the field of agronomy, agriculture and biology. Scientists keep in touch and cooperate with more than 140 countries, whose universities are engaged in the study of the flora of the globe. The Garden of Batumi has signed an international agreement on cooperation in the project "Memoranda". In recent years, several international meetings have been held on the territory of the arboretum between leading researchers of research activities in the field of botany and agronomy.
In addition to a rich collection of representatives of woody plants, the park houses a large herbarium collection and an extensive scientific library, where you can even find bibliographic rarities. The staff of the Batumi Arboretum regularly publish scientific, research and general education literature, which has earned them authority in the international community of botanists. In 2012, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Batumi National Park was celebrated.
The combination of rare plant species, well-developed infrastructure and unusual picturesque compositions of plants rightfully ranks the garden territory among the most beautiful places of Georgia. The Botanical Garden is well equipped to relax between walks: there are a large number of benches and gazebos. You can gather with the whole family for a picnic, and if you want to feel like a real traveler, then spend the night in a tent. The park administration only welcomes such an initiative, in order to get permission to be in the park at night, you need to pay a special ticket at the ticket office of the garden. It will cost 20 GEL for one night.
There are three ways to get inside the national park: the main entrance is located on the side of Cape Verde, additional gates are located on the side of the coastal village of Chakvi and the former Institute of Agriculture.
How to get
Get to the Botanical Garden easy, it is located just a few minutes drive from the city. Shuttle buses run here every 10 minutes, for example, a trip by bus No. 31 will cost only 1 GEL (23 rubles), it drives up just to the main entrance. The entrance to the garden is not free, to see the beauty of living plants from all over the globe, you will have to pay a symbolic amount – 15 lari (350 rubles), and you can walk around the park all day. Those who want to take a ride with the breeze on the territory of the garden can rent an electric car here for 30 lari.
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