Travel to Crimea!

Nikitsky Botanical Garden, Chrysanthemums exhibition

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When you come to the Crimea don’t miss the opportunity of visiting its Southern coast, which is popular not only because of lots wonderful sightseeing objects, but the unique Crimean flora. To obtain a deeper insight into Crimean flora you must go to the Nikitsky Botanical Garden.

HOW TO GET

The Nikita (small village where the garden is situated) is only 16 km from Yalta. To get the Garden in Nikita (from Simferopol) you can by marshrutka (mini bus) which goes from Simferopol railway station to Yalta, or by trolleybus ( the departure from railway station in Simferopol ), it will take much more longer, the trolleybuses are very slow. You should also remember that the entrance to the Nikitsky Botanical Garden not right at the bus stop, it will take about 20 minutes to reach it. The way back will take even more, when you finish your visit to Nikitsky Botanical Garden, you’ll be almost at the seashore of Black sea. More »

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From April 15th to May 1st, Yalta‘s Nikita Botanical Garden is the site of the Crimea’s finest Spring Flower Parade.

During the two week festivities, over 150 different tulips varieties will bloom. Many of the tulip breeds on display are unique to the gardens, and can be found no where else. The Nikita Botanical Gardens have been growing tulips since its foundation, and modern cultivation and annual tulip selection has been a speciality for more than 50 years.

During the festival’s Tulip Parade, the honorific title of Flower King will be bestowed upon the year’s best tulip breed. Don’t miss the dazzling colors of this year’s Spring Flower Parade.

to read about seasonal flower exhibitions at Nikita Botanical Garden here

The Nikitsky Botanical Garden in Southern Part of Crimea

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exhibition in Nikita (October)

The seasonal exhibitions in the Nikitsky Botanical Garden (Yalta):

1. Tulips exhibition in Crimea - spring long-term bulbous plants. About 140 kinds of tulips are growing on the planet now.  They usually grow in deserts, semideserts and dry steppes of Asia and Europe, from China up to Pyrenees’, and on the Mediterranean coast of Africa. The native land of the most beautiful wild-growing tulips is Central Asia.  Garden tulips were delivered to Europe from Turkey in 16^th century. The beauty of plants has subdued Europeans and especially Dutchs. In the Nikitsky Botanical Garden tulips are raised since time of its foundation. Since 1961г. this  Crimean Garden  has been working on their selection. Crimean tulips possess high decorative qualities, steady against adverse weather conditions on the south of Ukraine. The Crimean exhibition begins with last decade March and up to the middle of May, more than 150 grades of tulips replacing each other, begin to blossom.

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2. Rosarium exhibition in Crimea -  Rose – Queen of flowers. The roses fascinate  the visitors of the Nikitsky Botanical Garden  in Yalta with  the beauty and the aroma not only in the spring and in the summer, but also in autumn. The collection of roses of the Nikitsky Botanical Garden in Crimea is one of the best in the East Europe. It estimates more than thousand grades, kinds and forms of roses from 30 garden groups among which there are roses – dwarfs in height up to 10 cm from group of tiny roses and roses – giants from group of  the plashing roses, 10 m rising on height, there are grades unitary blossoming only in May – June within 10-20 days and there are grades is long pleasing us flowering within 200 days, till the first snow on the Southern Coast of Crimea. The grades of roses which are included to the collection, are created in the best firms the USA, France, Germany, there are  roses  from Russia, Spain, Italy and Holland. Terms of the Crimean exhibition – the second decade of May and up to the end of December. Depending on weather conditions terms  of exibition can be shifted for 7-10 days. More »