Southern Cultures Park

Dendrological Park "Southern Cultures" is located in Adler, Sochi. The park was founded in 1910 by Ivan Skrivannik, the author of the park project was a dendrologist and gardener A. E. Regel. The park in landscape style covers an area of 20 hectares, there are more than 1,400 species of various shrubs and trees. Here is the flora of the subtropical belt of the planet: Africa, New Zealand, the Caucasus, China, Japan and so on.

Since 1920, the park has been included in the state farm "Accidental", later renamed "Southern cultures". In the 1930s, a great contribution to the development of the park was made by Professor D. D. Artsybashev, who planted decorative exotic shrubs and trees in the park: kalinas, rhododendrons, Japanese cherries, Japanese toe maples and much more. Since the 1930s, the park has been a major supplier of seeds and cuttings of coniferous and exotic shrubs for the farms of the Black Sea coast and the whole country.

The park has a rich collection of trees and shrubs of coniferous species: cypresses, cedars, fir, fir, fir, pines, tui. Trees and shrubs of hardwoods are represented by maples, magnolias, plane trees, laurels, rhododendrons and others. There are rare breeds of shrubs and trees: ginkgo, araucaria, coffee tree and others. In the park there is a magnificent rose garden, which presents a rich variety of rose varieties. The park is decorated with flower beds framed with boxwood curbs. In the park there are two ponds, as well as an architectural monument - a water tower, built in 1905.