If you are looking for an outdoor excursion while in Ukraine and enjoy learning about the flora of the country, you can visit the Seaside Park in Nikita. The park is the most well protected of all thanks to the mountain crests that surround it. The climate in this little corner of Ukraine is mild and the evergreen trees in the garden love the warmth. Additionally, visitors to the park can see cedar, osmantuses, mastic pistachio-tree, various palm-trees, and a wide variety of bright flowered blooming subtropical shrubs. Myrtle, pheyhoa, haerops – also known as palmetto – and orchidaceous trees can also be found at the Seaside Park.
If you start your trip to the gardens in the Upper Park, you will get the opportunity to wander through carefully manicured paths into the plantations, the area of the gardens that contains plant species from the world. Bamboo from China, Silver Fir, Plantain, Evergreen Stone Oak, and gigantic sequoiadrendron can be found here. There are also 500 year old yew trees in this part of the garden, a throwback to the local forests that are long gone.
To the east of the park visitors will find Cape Martyan, and area where rare shrubs, tree, and grasses in over 500 species grow in 120 hectares of dry land reserve of virgin conditions. This area is used by Ukrainian scientists on a regular basis and it is only open during certain times of year.
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