Nikitsky Botanical Garden is a national park of Crimea. This is a scientific enterprise created with the aim of breeding various plant species, developing the country's crop production and exchanging experience with foreign colleagues.
Where is the Nikitsky Botanical Garden
This wonderful place is located in the village of Nikita in Y alta. Every day, an endless stream of people who want to admire the unusual vegetation is sent here. Even if tourists do not know the exact address, any local resident will tell you where the Nikitsky Botanical Garden is located. How to get to the park is of interest to many vacationers. Buses run here from the center of Y alta. On this transport you can reach your destination in 10-15 minutes. Fixed-route taxis run from the clothing market of Y alta. From anywhere in the Crimea, buses, taxis, trolleybuses will take those who wish here - to the Nikitsky Botanical Garden. You need to go to the stop of the same name, not far from which the main entrance is located. Tourist guides organize a lot of excursions to the Nikitsky Botanical Garden.
History of the park
It was founded in 1812 by the Russian academician ChristianSteven. The Nikitsky Botanical Garden in Crimea was created with the aim of developing agriculture and crop production in the southern part of the country. To enrich domestic agriculture, contacts were established with many countries of America, Europe and Asia. The Nikitsky Botanical Garden was the ancestor of new branches of plant growing, such as viticulture, subtropical and southern fruit growing, tobacco growing, and ornamental gardening.
Garden Plant Diversity
The park has a unique arboretum - arboretum, which includes a collection of woody plants from around the world. Arboretum covers an area of 40 hectares. Walking in the garden gives the impression that they have visited every point on the planet.
A breathtaking sight is one of the best European collections of roses. Garden visitors are always interested in the cactus plantation.
The Nikitsky Botanical Garden has several thousand varieties of various flowering plants. Photos of some of them are in the article. The park is amazing because there are flowers here at any time of the year, even in winter.
The species diversity of the garden is striking in its abundance. There are whole groves of olives, junipers, Lebanese cedar, cork oak, vineyards, flower plantations and many exotic plants.
Despite the hot climate, it is in the park that you can find a cool corner in the shade of trees. The air here is thick and rich, incredibly clean thanks to the continuous work of the "green lungs".
Rare plants
Nikitsky Botanical Garden in Crimea is inhabited by many rare plants. These are figs, feijoa, marzipan, jujube, Lankaran acacia. Of the blooming here, Japanese chaenomeles, male dogwood, ruddy erica, primrose, periwinkle, jasmine turned back, hellebore are always pleasing to the eye.
Foreign colleagues not only willingly share their experience, but also actively adopt it from Russian breeders. So, in England, Y alta saffron is grown.
Tours
In such an amazing place, of course, many excursions are organized. The easiest way to get to one of them is to buy a ticket at the entrance, then wait on the bench until the group is gathered. The duration of the journey through the garden is about one hour. It is impossible to see the entire collection of plants during this time, but in the allotted hour you will be able to see palm alleys, an olive grove, rose plantations, a meadow with yuccas, a bamboo grove. Along the way, a breathtaking view of Mount Ai-Petri, the sea and Y alta opens up. There is a water cascade with blooming magnolias and giant plane trees. A grotto with goldfish and a greenhouse of orchids complete the excursion to the Nikitsky Botanical Garden, the photo of which will become an indispensable decoration of home albums.
In addition, you can get on the tour from anywhere in the Crimea. As groups are completed or on certain days of the week, tourists are brought here in an organized manner.
Just a couple of years ago, it became possible to make a trip to the Nikitsky Botanical Garden by electric car. This small car with a capacity of sixpassenger seats will allow you to explore the beauty of the garden in less time. The idea appeared primarily to facilitate visiting the park for people with disabilities. The price of an electric car tour is slightly higher than the cost of walking.
Flower holidays
The highlight of the park are regularly held flower festivals. Each of them has its own name, for example, "Iris Carnival", "Chrysanthemum Ball", "Tulip Parade". Endless plantations, represented by a full range of rainbow colors, are truly a bewitching sight! During each holiday, a huge number of flowers are exhibited - the heroes of the event. Then, by voting of all comers, the queen or king of the ball is chosen - a certain kind of flowers. At the end of the holiday, you can buy your favorite plants.
Botanical Garden Structure
The park in Nikita is divided into several zones: Upper and Lower parks, Primorsky and Montedor park. The upper park is located in the center of the garden. It was conceived as a place for walking. The lower park is the oldest part of the garden, and the "youngest" is located on the cape of the same name - Montedor.
For the convenience of visitors, there is a cafe, shops with seedlings and seeds. At the entrance to the park there are souvenir shops, book trays with special literature about the park. The botanical garden has special lighting, as well as musical accompaniment.
Upper Park
In this part of the park are locatedadministrative buildings - scientific departments and laboratories. Bamboo grove, evergreen holm oak - such plants greet visitors to the Nikitsky Botanical Garden in the central part. Here, as well as in other areas of the park, plantings from all continents are represented. Bamboo, for example, comes from China, and holm oak grows on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It has adapted very well to this area, so entire alleys of these trees adorn the Crimea. The Nikitsky Botanical Garden is also represented by other magnificent tree giants. These are plane trees, firs, giant sequoiadendrons. The latter are also called mammoth trees. They came here from America.
Since the park was planted on the site of an old garden, representatives of local vegetation are found here - fluffy oak, blunt pistachio, small-fruited strawberry. These trees are much older than their exotic counterparts. For example, yew berry has 500 years from the beginning of planting. This most beautiful coniferous tree is very typical for a city like Y alta. The Nikitsky Botanical Garden is the owner of a wonderful rose garden, in which such varieties of flowers as the Red Poppy, Star Sister, Clementine, the Bakhchisarai Fountain and others grow.
Not only rare varieties of plants impress tourists. Walking in the garden, one cannot fail to notice how breathtaking views of Y alta open up here and there.
Lower Park
The olive grove is a long-liver in the lower part of the garden. It is thermophilic, drought-resistant and interesting in a practical sense. This is an evergreen mediterraneanculture. Oak, plane tree, pine, cypress - such powerful trees can be found walking through the Lower Park. Shrubs grow along skillfully decorated alleys: Crimean ivy, Pontic needle, Crimean rockrose. Thanks to them, the park acquires an elegant and finished look. Shrubs such as bougainvillea, oleander, crimson bloom beautifully.
The exotic flora of the Lower Park is represented by: cork oak, which is considered to be the birthplace of Portugal, Chinese bilobed ginkgo, banana brought from Japan, Mediterranean laurel, large-flowered magnolia. The garden is inhabited by representatives of the Red Book. Among them is the strawberry tree. This tree can be up to 1000 years old. The strawberry tree is often used to decorate parks and gardens, it is interesting for its purple color of the bark.
There are such heat-loving plants here as persimmon, figs, medlar. An interesting giant pine tree with the name of the Aztec leader - Montezuma.
Seaside Park
A little more than a hundred years ago, a truly paradise was opened in the garden - Seaside Park, covering an area of 20 hectares. The warmest part of the garden is reserved mainly for eastern heat-loving vegetation. Palm trees, citruses, agaves, dracaenas, acacias, araucarias and many others have found their place here. The seaside park is decorated in Japanese-Chinese style.
After a break in work, the renovated section of the botanical garden has started working again. Landscape designers, who have worked hard to create an updated project, have made changes to the style of the park, adding a littlemodernity.
The "chip" of the Seaside Park is the eastern gods of happiness. In fact, these are plants cut in such a way that they take the form of a person, beast, or some kind of mythical creature. Sitting in the gazebo, you can talk with one of the gods or turn to several at once. Each of them is "responsible" for a certain area of human life. These are Daikoku, Fukurokuju, Hotei-osho, Ebisu, Benzai, Bishamon and Jurojin.
According to the ancient Japanese tradition, every god promises a person happiness, but not money. So, Daikoku patronizes the peasants, gives food and protects the kitchen. Fukurokuju are asked for long life and prosperity. Hotei-osho is depicted with a bag, from which he distributes the most necessary to all those in need. Ebisu patronizes workers of various professions. Benzai is the goddess who helps to master the arts - singing, drawing, literature, as well as wisdom. Bishamonu pray for the protection of the warrior. Jurojin is depicted with a scroll in which the secret of a happy life is written.
Montedor
The youngest park is located on Cape Montedor and is a little over fifty years old, maybe that's why it is visited a little less often than others. Pitsunda pine grows here, which now remains only on the southern coast of Crimea. Fluffy oak, juniper - one of the few coniferous "inhabitants" of Montedor. The metasequoia is considered to be a relic plant of the park. Long considered an extinct species, it was discovered in China in the 20th century by scientists. Metasequoia has soft needles that fall in winter.
Amazingbeauty of a grove of old mammoth trees, plantations of Mexican cypress and gutta-percha tree.
In closing
Nikitsky Botanical Garden of 2014 is a grandiose in scale and breathtaking in terms of entertainment place of the Crimean peninsula. People from all over the world come to see the beauty of the park. Gaining impressions, learning a lot of new things or acquiring an unusual plant - this is a small part of the functions that the Nikitsky Botanical Garden performs today. The park's website - nbgnsc.com - will allow you to learn more about the plant species of interest, the scientific works of the enterprise, and the schedule of exhibitions.
