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Stavropol Botanical Garden

A few years ago the aquatic royal beauty took up residence in the orangery of Stavropol’s V. V. Skripchinskiy Botanical Garden.

One of the world’s largest aquatic plants, it can be quite demanding- it requires particular water temperatures, light and humidity. However, the conditions created in the state capital’s botanical garden are so comfortable that it blooms by both night and day, enabling residents and visitors alike to feast their eyes.

Victoria amazonica is not the garden’s only delight. Here hasbeen gathered a truly unparallelled collection of plants from every corner of the world.

This ecological paradise on Stavropolian soil can look back on more than half a century of history. In 1959 41.28 hectares of land in the Krai’s centre were allocated for the preservation and enrichment of Stavropol’s flora, and the chairman of the regional branch of the All-Union Botanical Society, Vasiliy Scripchinskiy, was appointed Director of the newly-created garden. During the first 5-7 years an orangery, laboratory building and fence appeared on the desigated site, and the first scientific research got under way. Valuable plant species were collected during field expeditions to the Caucasus foothills, the Caucasus itself and the European part of Russia. Stavropol’s colleagues in other Russian botanical gardens also shared their collections.

Over the past 50 years of the Stavropol garden’s existence its employees have managed to collect 60,000 different seeds, and its territory has expanded to 185 hectares- an area without equal amongst collections in the South of Russia. Flowers, bushes, trees, perennial and annual grasses, and exotic plants from entirely different parts of the world peacefully coexist in this ecological oasis. The staff’s focused scientific research work has enabled it to grow its own original plants. These riches are eagerly shared with the residents of Stavropol Krai. The Botanical Garden is always open to visitors, and many examples of its unique greenery decorate the city’s recreation zones and private dachas and allotments throughout the Krai.