Kremenets Botanical Garden
botanical garden in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine
Kremenets Botanical Garden (Ukrainian: Кременецький ботанічний сад) is located in the city of Kremenets in the Ternopil Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. The garden was founded in 1806, making it one of the oldest botanical gardens in the country.
Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine from October 12, 1992 declared the Kremenets Botanical Garden as a protected area of national importance, which aims are to preserve, study, acclimate rare and common flora.
Description
Botanical Garden's area has 200 hectares, most of which – natural landscapes of complex topography with a height difference of 150 meters (maximum absolute height ois the territory of 399 meters, minimum – 255 m). 170 hectares of the territory consist of artificial and natural forest plantations, herbaceous and rock communities. The slopes of the garden covered with hornbeam, oak – hornbeam, larch, pine, pine-birch, ash-maple forests of artificial and natural origin.
History
During 1806-1809, project of Kremenets'kiy Botanical Garden had been formed by famous Irish master of landscape architecture Dionysius Mc Klyer. According to this project garden area was 4.5 hectares. It consisted of the park, rose garden, three orangeries, greenhouses and pharmacist garden. Collected by D. Mc Klyerom collection of living plants totaled 480 species of local flora and 760 exotic plants.
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