Peradeniya
Royal Botanical Garden, Peradeniya is one of the best botanical gardens in Sri Lanka, and one of the most beautiful in Asia. It is located just 6 km from Kandy, the second largest city in Sri Lanka. The botanical gardens is huge & well-organized gardens, It is renowned for the collection the variety of Orchids, and has more than 300 varieties of Orchids, spices, medicinal plants and palms trees attach it is the National Herbarium. Total land mass of the botanical garden is 147 acres; it is managed by the Division of National Botanic Gardens of the Department of Agriculture. The origins of the Botanic Gardens date as far back. The Classical Avenue of Palms is located in this Garden. One tree with a significant history is the Cannon ball Tree planted by King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary in 1901. The tree is bent with their fruit which looks like Cannon Ball, which is how it came to be named.
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| Peradeniya Botanical Gardens - Sri Lanka |
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| Peradeniya Botanical Gardens - Sri Lanka |
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| Peradeniya Botanical Gardens - Sri Lanka |
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| Peradeniya Botanical Gardens - Sri Lanka |
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| Peradeniya Botanical Gardens - Sri Lanka |
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| Peradeniya Botanical Gardens - Sri Lanka |
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| Peradeniya Botanical Gardens - Sri Lanka |
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| Peradeniya Botanical Gardens - Sri Lanka |
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| Peradeniya Botanical Gardens - Sri Lanka |
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| Peradeniya Botanical Gardens - Sri Lanka |
Hakgala
Hakgala Botanical Garden is the second largest garden in Sri Lanka. The garden is contiguous to Hakgala Strict Nature Reserve. Is situated on the Nuwara Eliya-Badulla main road, 16 km from Nuwara Eliya. The garden has a cool temperate climate because of altitude is 5,400 feet above the sea level. The mean annual temperature ranges between 16°C to 30°C during course of a year. From December to February it has a cold climate, while the warm climate persists from April to August. The Garden established in 1861 as an experimental cultivation of Cinchona, a commercial crop thriving at the time. Once after the Tea replace the Cinchona, it was turned into an experimental Tea cultivation. In 1884 it transformed to a garden since then many sub-tropical and some temperate plants were planted in the gardens. In the folklores, it says Sri Lankan demon King Ravana after abducting Sita, kept her hidden in this area and area was offered to Sita as a pleasure garden, the place finds mention in the Ramayana as Ashok Vatika. The area was named as "Sita Eliya" and "Sita Amman Temple" was built on the site. There are over 10,000 species of flora planted here and during the Spring season in Nuwara Eliya thousands of visitors come to see the blooms here. Number of annual visitors is around 500,000. The garden is famous for number of species of Orchids and Roses are planted there.
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| Hakgala Botanical Garden - Sri Lanka |
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| Hakgala Botanical Garden - Sri Lanka |
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| Hakgala Botanical Garden - Sri Lanka |
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| Hakgala Botanical Garden - Sri Lanka |
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| Hakgala Botanical Garden - Sri Lanka |
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| Hakgala Botanical Garden - Sri Lanka |
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| Hakgala Botanical Garden - Sri Lanka |
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| Hakgala Botanical Garden - Sri Lanka |
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| Hakgala Botanical Garden - Sri Lanka |
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| Hakgala Botanical Garden - Sri Lanka |
