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