The Batumi Botanical Garden

One of things one should do when staying in Batumi is to go to the botanical garden. It is located about 9 km to the north of Batumi directly at the coast. There are two city bus lines from Batumi to the garden, one ends at an entrance at sea level and one passes an entrance at the topmost point of the garden.

As I wrote the weather was bad but I didn't want to miss the garden. In fact, when I arrived there the fog didn't allow to look more than 50 meters in advance. Fortunately the fog level decreased a bit with every minute so that it was possible to see the highlights of the park.

In summer this park must be very beautiful and also a point to refresh a bit from the heat. Its climate is very special. Many trees have bryophyte at their bark because of the high humidity. The park is located at a cliff of the coast and it covers also a valley behind the cliff. So there are basically three areas within the park (cliff, down the valley, up the valley) and even in March one can see the differences in the micro climate. Only the plants at the cliff are evergreen ones.
However, I am not an expert with plants so just watch the photos:

The upper entrance with buildings of the Batumi university.

Heavy fog but somehow nice.

The Camellia Japonica trees already had blossoms.

The garden is very proud of its bamboo trees.
These are trees of the type phyllostachys pubescens.

 

The spring has begun.
 

This is colchian boxwood which can reaches ages of 500 years.
It is one of the plants that naturally grows here (in the Colchis).

The garden has some nice picnic spot.

The small river of the mentioned valley.

This is the former railway station of the garden.
It is only used for special events like weddings.

 
 

A tree fallen over a small river.
You can use it as a bridge, but look closer...

It is the mother of many "trees". If you can't see the fallen
tree one would think that this is just a bunch of normal trees.

It is amazing what mother nature can do.

Here too.

I didn't know that one can cut some types
of trees and they renew themselves like this.

View at the coast line to the north.
 

Another view.