2022 Ukraine Botanic Garden Appeal

M.M. Hryshko National Botanical Garden of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

The M.M. Hryshko National Botanical Garden of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NBG) was founded in 1935 in the historical part of Kyiv. The NBG has the richest collections in Ukraine, it holds historical collections on an area of 130 hectares. Thanks to the unique botanical-geographical principle, plants of some geographical zones of Ukraine and other countries are presented. They are located in the garden areas such as “Forests of the Plain Part of Ukraine”, “Ukrainian Carpathians”, “Crimea”, “Steppes of Ukraine”, “Caucasus”, “Central Asia”. “Altai and Western Siberia”, “Far East”, which not only give an opportunity to imagine the flora of these regions, but also reproduce the typical plant communities and even relief.  

Hryshko Botanic Garden is also maintained by volunteers, who work day by day with its plants, and even help construct irrigation systems. A huge thanks goes out to these incredible volunteers!

Collections at Hryshko Botanical Garden

The Arboretum at Hryshko National Botanical has a unique collection of trees, shrubs and vines. Groves of birches, oaks, nuts, lindens, maples, legumes, Rosaceae and conifers impress with their diversity. The lilac garden is known far beyond Kyiv and Ukraine. In addition to many varieties, species and ornamental hybrids of lilac are fully represented here. Moreover, the garden holds collections for 100 species that are listed in the Red List of Ukraine. 

Activities that the 2022 Ukraine Botanic Garden Appeal will support include:

1. Maintenance of botanical collections: the appeal will fund the time of 10 botanical specialists
2. Development of new excursion routes, in accordance with the conditions of wartime and post-war reconstruction: this appeal will help finance 2 botanical specialists
3. Preparation of informational materials for presentation on the national Botanic Garden website
4. Organisation and realisation of employee training on maintenance of collection and sites of the Garden 

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