"Batumi Botanical Garden" in Batumi

One of the largest botanical gardens in the world, a unique place where the rarest and most beautiful representatives of fauna are gathered. It was founded in 1880 by the Russian scientist Andrei Krasnov, and first opened to visitors in 1912.

Today in the garden on an area of 110 hectares there are more than 5 thousand species of plants: Japanese sakura, Canarian date palm, cacti, bamboo, palm trees, magnolias, eucalyptus, cypress and many others.

Batumi Garden was created on the principle of the legendary gardens of Semiramis and tiers descend from the top of the mountains to the Black Sea. At the very top is the zone of plants of the Himalayas (pines, cypresses, rhododendrons, barberry), at the foot - Mediterranean flora (palms, oleanders, beeches, laurels). Between them there are New Zealand, Australian, North American departments, as well as the Japanese Garden, the Mexican Hill, the subtropical department of Transcaucasia.