Peradeniya Botanical Garden

The botanical garden at peradeniya was formally established in 1843 with plants brought from kew garden slave island colombo and the kalutara garden in kalutara.

Peradeniya botanical garden. Peradeniya botanical garden is picturesquely located adjoining the mahaweli river which is the longest river of sri lanka. You can easily spend the half day there. 10 restaurants within 0 75 miles.

Royal botanical garden peradeniya is one of the best botanical gardens in sri lanka and one of the most beautiful in asia. 72655223 phalaenopsis cultivars orchid in peradeniya botanical garden. In sri lanka both public and private gardens abound and probably the most famous and most visited are the peradeniya botanical gardens at 6 km from kandy with over 59 hectares it is the largest botanical garden in all of sri lanka.

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Conceived originally in 1371 as the queen s pleasure garden it was developed by king kirti sri rajasinhe 1747 1778 where royal visitors were entertained. There is an avenue of coconut palm trees a spice garden giant bamboos rubber trees an orchard collection and a giant javan fig tree which covers 1600 sq metres. Main botanical gardens of the country peradeniya royal botanical gardens 1821 hakgala botanical gardens 1861 henarathgoda botanical gardens gampaha 1876 and forest medicinal herbal botanical garden ganewatte as well as mirijjawila dry zone botanical garden hambantota 2013 wet zone botanical garden avissawella have already been.

We absolutely recommend to. The botanical gardens is huge well organized gardens it is renowned for the collection the variety of orchids and has more than 300 varieties. They are in a loop in the river mahaweli ganga.

There are some 4 000 different species of plants at peradeniya gardens. The river flows along with the hugging the western border of the beautiful garden. The royal botanic garden peradeniya was made more independent and expanded under george gardner as superintendent in 1844.