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Botanical Garden of Uzhhorod National University

Botanical Garden of Uzhhorod National University

In Ukraine, a special place is occupied by right of monuments of landscape art under state protection. One of these monuments - the botanical garden of Uzhgorod National University. It was founded immediately after the accession of Transcarpathia in Ukraine in November 1945. Over time, the Botanical Garden has become one of the best in the country.

The entire garden is spread over three terraces, about a third of its area is located above the river (the first and second terrace), the rest falls on the area of ​​the valley. The differential between the terraces is 22 m. When the park was created, its territory already had two fruit garden, where there were apples, pears, cherries, cherry, plum, willow, blackberry, wild rose, walnut and elderberry. By the end of the 40s of the last century garden is filled with new plant species. Here grow the Japanese Sophora, Kuril bamboo, there was a place for balsamic poplar, sugar maple, as well as the edible chestnut.

Accommodation landings performed by geography: in the garden there are areas with Caucasian, Chinese, Far Eastern and American plants. Today botanical garden boasts 3,800 species of ground plants, 1100 species of greenhouse grown plants in the park. The garden grows about 130 species of conifers, and in the arboretum - about 800 species of trees and shrubs. Also presented a mountain flora: alpine slides on 150 species of plants grow, among them a beautiful edelweiss. However, collection of the park would be incomplete without the flora of the tropics and subtropics: in a greenhouse grow banana, papaya, eucalyptus, various kinds of trees and cacti.

In addition to its own gardens, the Botanical Garden has a lovely park and adjacent to the park, the children`s railway, which enjoys Uzhgorod no less popular than a botanical garden.

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