The Botanical Garden

The Botanical Garden of BAS is a specialist academic entity tasked with the upkeep of recorded collections of living plants for educational and experimental botany purposes. The Garden’s public role is connected to the challenges of biodiversity study and conservation, as well as the distribution of information about it among the broadest social strata, with the goal of developing an attitude toward the sustainable management of biodiversity.

Tropical and subtropical

The tropical and subtropical plant collection is world-class, and it is the richest on the Balkan Peninsula. It contains over 3,000 taxonas (2,300 species and over 600 variations and forms) from 156 plant families. This represents 0.7 percent of the world’s higher plant species diversity. There are plants from every tropical zone represented. Demonstrates the adaptation of various living forms and devices to a range of ecological circumstances. Dignity is the existence of some of the most ancient plant species and groupings, such as the Cikas. It is housed in 12 greenhouses with a total size of 2200 square meters.

m. It has been gathered for almost a century. The earliest specimens inherited from the Royal Botanic Garden came from gardens in Austria and Germany, or they were acquired from European florist firms. More than 80 plant species have been saved, including mature cicassi, palm trees, darts, and around 30 orchid species (vanda, venikin slippers). The majority of other plants are cultivated from seeds or cuttings purchased via foreign trade. Approximately 10% of the specimens are contributed by other botanical gardens, horticultural firms, and people.

Succulent plant collections, orchid collections, Snake (aroids), Gesnerium collections, and begonia collections are the most numerous. Food (banana, citrus, fine palm, olive, manioc, avocado, Japanese mishmuhl, coffee); aromatic (myrtle, laurel tree, black pepper, cinnamon, vanilla, lemongrass); medicinal (rauvolfia, camphor tree, catarantus); technical (jojoba, sisal, bamboo, papyrus) and many more are cultivated. Darts, alamandi, tunbergs, aristolochs, passiflora, and water lilies are among the original hues available to beauty connoisseurs. Popular plants include leafy begons, croons, and gorgeously flowered adales, camellias, bougainvilleas, and gardenias.

Dendrological collections

The open-air collection of trees and plants consists mostly of species native to the Northern Hemisphere’s temperate zone (Europe, Asia, North America). It is made up of over 1000 species and over 40 families. It was mostly established via international exchange and has a number of species that are not growing in the country’s parks. Unfortunately, because to BG building issues, a big portion of them is housed in nurseries and uterines and is inaccessible to tourists. The development of the Exhibition Complex “Asia” began 30 years ago, and visitors may witness some of the diversity of woody plants in the regions surrounding the greenhouses, as well as in the grounds around the greenhouses.

The Families of Rossoflower (the cotoneaster, Apple, Hawthorn, Spirea, etc.), Olive, Legumes, and Cypress have the most examples. Ginkgo, metasecvoya, mamont tree, cedars, and other old (relict) plants are included.

The focus in recent years has been on enrichment with popular decorative tree species. Among them are Japanese maples, magnificent magnolias, and coniferous plant species such as tui, false money, and juniper. Hybrids of various gene materials are uncommon in woody plants. Kupressus x Chamaecyparis and Chilopsis x Catalpa are two examples of hybrid gene materials in the collection.

Thematic collections

Thematic presentations – flowers, rockeries, blooming shrubs, fragrant and medicinal plants – are among the botanical gardens’ most appealing features. The once-rich flower collections of the Botanical Garden have been utterly destroyed in consecutive locations.

With the establishment of the Rosarium in 1991, a new era began.