Batumi Botanical Garden looks like a veritable Garden of Eden, descended from the pages of the Bible. And how else can you call this stunning piece of paradise, where in one place are gathered samples of the rarest, strange and beautiful plants from around the world! On the vast territory of the garden (over 110 acres) there is a collection of more than two thousand units of wood.
However, only a small part – 104 of them – grows in the Caucasus. The rest were brought from different corners of the planet and surprisingly coexist next to each other: The Japanese Sakura, Canary date palm, cactuses, bamboos, palm trees, magnolias and cypresses. In addition to the trees in the garden are well represented subtropical shrubs and plants. Overall, in the garden of more than five thousand plants of various kinds and forms.
The world importance unique botanical garden is located nine miles from north of Batumi in the vicinity of Green Cape resort. Batumi Botanical Garden was laid out on the beautiful slopes of Green Cape in 1880. For the public garden where now grow rare species of tropical and subtropical plants, it was opened in 1912 and each year receives thousands of tourists and visitors.
Quiet shady alleys of the Botanical Garden became the final resting place of the founder – a prominent Russian geographer and botanist Andrei Krasnov. The brainchild of botany Krasnov, which began with seedlings brought from their two-headed major expeditions of Southeast Asia, stepped over the 100-year anniversary and has become one of the most visited tourist attraction in Ajara.