Botanical garden in Cluj Napoca

Description:

The Botanical Garden of Babes Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca was founded in 1920 by Professor Alexandru Boza. The classification of plants and phytogeography prevails in organizing its scientific concept, harmoniously combined with artistic refinement which offers an extremely charming and picturesque view.

The Garden occupies an area of 14 hectares of hilly land that is suitable to successfully cultivate highly diverse collections of plants, coming from every corner of the Earth, collections totalling about 10,000 taxons. The area is divided into several sectors: ornamental, phytogeographic, systematic, economic and medical, each with its specific features. The flora and vegetation of our country is well represented by the Plain of Transylvania, the Carpathian Mountains, the Banat and Oltenia Region, the maritime dunes, etc.

A suggestive planning is represented by the Romanian Garden, dominated by the statue of Ceres goddess and other artefacts discovered in archaeological researches in the Roman city of Napoca, populated with crop plants, vegetables and flowers growing in Roman gardens, which are still planted in the Romanian peasants'gardens nowadays.

How to get there?

It is located in the south of the city, Republicii street nr. 42, Cluj County Phone: 0040 64 192 152, Fax: 0040 64 431 858, e-mail: grbot@grbot.ubbcluj.ro

Some of the attractions:

• The ornamental- there are dozens of species with hundreds of varieties of wood and herbaceous plants that delight the visitors' eyes from the melting of the snow until the first frost of autumn.
• The Japanese Garden - The Asian flora lies around the lovely Japanese Garden, designed in the intermediate gyo-no-niwa traditional style, with many specific elements of Landscape Architecture;
• The Greenhouse-complex consists of six greenhouses in which we can find equatorial plants, tropical and subtropical, such as the famous water lily of the Amazons, impressive palm trees, Australian and Mediterranean plants, succulent plants, orchids and tropical ferns;
• The Systematic Sector- one of the most important sectors of the Botanical Garden, is a living book of botany, in which species are grouped in relation to their families and these in orders and classes, arranged in phylogenetic order.

When you can visit Botanical Garden?     

Open: 09:00-18:00, 19:00
Greenhouses: 09:00-18:00 - summer
                     10:00-17:00 - winter

Price: 3-5 RON (~1,2 Euro)