Botanichecky Gardens St. Petersburg - one of the most northerly botanic gardens in the world.
It is the former Imperial Botanic Garden , established in 1823godu , is one of the oldest botanical gardens in Russia. It is located on the island of Apothecary .Occupies an area between the Little Neva embankment Aptekarskaya , waterfront Karpovka Aptekarsky prospectus and Professor Popov street .
The ground served as the Garden of Pharmaceutical Garden , founded by Peter I in 1714 for the cultivation of medicinal herbs, as well as rare and interesting plants overseas .In the years 1823-1824 were built square greenhouses layout that mostly kept to this day. At the same time created the park. By 1913, became the center of the domestic garden of botanical science , and one of the largest botanical institutions in the world .
administratively to the Botanical Garden Botanical Institute named after VLKomarova , as his department, and is , thus, the structure of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The local collection comprises more than 80 000 samples.
They were placed in greenhouses and in the park. In greenhouses , covering an area of about 1 hectare , while the total length of 1 km, collections of living plants , with more than 7.5 thousandplant species, including the most remote and exotic corners of the planet. Greenhouses affect the abundance and variety of plants. Here you can see the hanging gardens of epiphytes, living high on the branches of tropical trees could be seen immediately lacy leaves of ferns.
In greenhouses fruit mangoes, cocoa , coffee, flakurtiya (tropical plum ), bananas , citrus fruits (lemon , mandarin, orange ), Japanese loquat , fig, pineapple guava, pomegranate and other plants.
Here, starting from February bloom profusely Australian acacia kallistemony , palm trees , jasmine .Particularly interesting collection of heather , delicate winter feast for the eyes , Eric, and azaleas bloom in spring , turning into a blooming garden conservatory .
In the park , arboretum collected and exhibited the collection of woody and herbaceous plants of open ground , which are the pride of the garden.
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