Haggala Botanical Garden

     Haggala  Botanical Garden  is one of the  five botanical garden in Sri lanka.  It is the second  largest garden in Srilanka . 

Hakgala Botanical Garden - Wikipedia 

Also Haggala Botanical Garden  is situated in the Nuwara Eliya . The garden  has a cool climate because  of  attitude is 5400 feet above the see level . The mean annual temperature ranges between 16 c -30 c during course of the year. From December to february it has a cold climate  while the warm climate presists from April to Augest  The garden was established  in 1861, under George Henry Kendrick the waites as an experimental cultivation of cinchona a commercial crop thriving at the time 

 

Hakgala Botanical Garden | Best Botanical Garden In Sri Lanka

Also there are over 10,000 species of flora planted here and during the spring seoson in Nuwara eliya   thousands of visitors come to see the bloom here. Number of annual visitors are around 500,000. The garden is famous for number of  species of orchid and roses are planted here.

written by MINULA 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                          

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