The Botanical Garden in Nizhny Novgorod is located on the street of the same name. Its employees are developing methods for introducing plants, selling seeds and seedlings. On its territory there is a unique collection of rare shrubs, flowers and trees. More than three thousand taxa grow here. There is red maple, narrow-leaved zamia, Tibetan rhododendron, and bear nut.
First meeting
The Botanical Garden in Nizhny Novgorod belongs to the local university named after Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky. It is a platform for scientific work and research. This park is relatively young. He is younger than "Switzerland" and other city squares. During World War II, part of its territory was occupied by crops, but the park did not stop its activity.
Historical reference
The date of foundation of the Botanical Garden in Nizhny Novgorod is considered to be 1933. Organizational moments were assigned to Sergey Sergeyevich Stankov - scientist, florist and botanist. It was he who managed to obtain permission to create an experimental park. Raising the question of the need to create a botanical garden in the city in 1933, he promised to take an active part in the search for tropical and exotic plants for the collection.
Sergey Sergeevich Stankov personally collected rare samples in Azerbaijan and Abkhazia. He managed to equip more than 30 hectares of land located in the zone of mixed coniferous and deciduous forests. Part of this oak grove has been preserved. Today it occupies the eastern and southern extremities of the park.
For decades, employees of the botanical garden cultivated plants that were in danger of complete extinction. They managed to save the rarest botanical species. The scientific activity of the florists of the park has been going on for more than 30 years.
Educational activities
At the moment, the Botanical Garden is an important training center not only for Nizhny Novgorod, but also for the entire Volga region. Future botanists and biologists, ecologists and forestry specialists are trained in it. On its basis, students studying landscape design and architecture are educated.
Ornamental plants and fruit trees are being adapted on its fields for planting in the climatic zone of Nizhny Novgorod. Experienced botanists monitor the growth of two dozen plant species, which are included in the Red Book. The park was given the status of a natural monument of local importance.
Collection
About 1,500 different species of shrubs, flowers and plants, representatives of six dozen botanical families grow in open ground. The starting point of the excursion route is next to the Ericaceae family department. It collected 160 taxa.
Seventy species of exotic flowers and plants grown in the tropics are planted in greenhouses. This is medlar, laurel, banana, fig, avocado, feijoa, aloe, pomegranate. As well as cinnamon, sophora, monstera, agave, myrtle, black pepper, laurel, Kalanchoe.
Relict species growing in the park:
- sciadopitis;
- yew berry;
- Himalayan cedar;
- ginkgo bilobate;
- araucaria;
- eastern biota;
- cycad;
- orcetrus.
Infrastructure
The administration submits a number of objects located on the territory of the garden complex:
- arboretum;
- rose garden;
- greenhouses of tropical flora;
- fruit tree zone;
- natural flora;
- department of herbaceous plants;
- carpological laboratory;
- score.
Near the park are private households. Car parking is not provided. There are no toilets.
Arboretum
The visiting card of the garden is the tropical arboretum. In his collection are samples of southern plants that were brought from various climatic zones and regions. Entrance to the arboretum of the Botanical Garden in Nizhny Novgorod opens at the end of May. Limit inspection of expositions in October.
Greenhouses
Outlandish tropical flowers and shrubs grow in the park. There are samples of the Crimean flora, representatives of traditional Japanese gardens, inhabitants of the Russian taiga. Judging by the reviews of visitors, the park always reigns in order. Numerous photos of the Botanical Garden in Nizhny Novgorod confirm this. It can be seen that the flower beds are regularly looked after. The walking alleys are clean.
Information stands and tablets are set next to the unique trees. They show basic information about the exhibits. The greenhouses of the Botanical Garden in Nizhny Novgorod are open year-round. Next to them is a trading pavilion. Its employees offer to buy seedlings of exotic plants. They say that the prices are affordable, and the choice is great.
timetable
The park is located in Nizhny Novgorod on Botanical Garden Street, Building 1. Entrance to the territory is carried out only as part of organized groups. Greenhouses and the arboretum are open from 09:00 to 17:00. Weekends - holidays, Saturday and Sunday. You can sign up for a group tour by phone or on the spot.
Cost
In winter, only greenhouses and a shop work in the Botanical Garden of Nizhny Novgorod. On average, one and a half hours are allocated for one excursion. An entrance ticket for students of secondary schools, students, persons with disabilities costs about 100 rubles. For all other categories of visitors, the price is 200 rubles.
Range of shopping pavilion
The following types of plants with a closed root system can be purchased at a store operating in the park:
- barberry;
- grapes;
- spruce;
- willow;
- viburnum;
- kirkazon;
- Linden;
- juniper;
- nut;
- cystic fibrosis;
- rhododendron;
- rose flower;
- lilac;
- Pine;
- spirea;
- thuja.
The cost of seedlings varies in the range from 200 to 700 rubles.
List of plants with an open root system:
- quince;
- Birch;
- Weigela
- witch hazel;
- derain;
- oak;
- honeysuckle;
- horse chestnut;
- raspberries;
- Rowan;
- skumpiya;
- spirea;
- lilac;
- Forsythia
- henomeles;
- mocker.
The minimum cost of seedlings in the Botanical Garden in Nizhny Novgorod is 150 rubles, the maximum price is 3 000 rubles.
Visitors reviews
The park is often compared to the arboretum, which is located in Sochi. And the first one not only does not lose, but also surprises with an abundance of exotic plants. Residents of the city highly recommend this place to visit. Especially beautiful in the park during the flowering period of fruit trees. True, tourists complain about the inconvenient location of the park.
Judging by the address, the Botanical Garden in Nizhny Novgorod is located far from the center of the metropolis. Travel time, taking into account traffic jams, exceeds forty minutes. A ride on surface public transport will take even longer. Come to the park is advised in the afternoon. Towards evening, caretakers release guard dogs from the corrals.
In the alleys of the park in the summer and winter, professional photography is carried out. This is a favorite place for newlyweds. On Saturdays, next to the park there is a line of wedding processions. People come here for a walk with the children. Locals have picnics on open lawns. It takes more than three hours to go around all corners of the garden. There are no grocery stores in the park, so you need to take a supply of water and food with you. Park staff regularly treat grass against the reproduction of ticks and other blood-sucking insects. There is no artificial lighting for the alleys.
How to get there
Leading to the Botanical Garden in Nizhny Novgorod Ankudinovskoe highway. On it from the city center shuttle taxi No. T47. The journey takes about 30 minutes. There are thirteen stops from Gorky Square to the Ankudinovskoye Shosse stop. Getting off the bus, you need to go past the private sector houses in the direction of the oak grove. The journey will take approximately four minutes. The Botanical Garden is 340 meters from the stop.
Near the territory of the park there is a boarding school for deaf children, Sanatorium-forest school, Humanitarian Institute, kindergarten No. 465, a post office and a library.
Those who drive to the park by car and move from the center need to follow Pokrovskaya street, then turn onto Gagarin Avenue. After three kilometers, continue along Meditsinskaya Street, then leave for Ankudinovskoye Shosse.