National Botanical Garden of the name of M. Gryshko - the perfect place for a stroll in any season. On the territory of established special geographical and natural areas, which not only reconstruct the vegetation of these edges, but also relief and some typical landscapes. It created a unique floristic complexes Forests plain part of Ukraine, "Ukrainian Carpathians", "Steppes of Ukraine, Crimea, the Caucasus," Central Asia ", the Altai and Western Siberia, the Far East." National Botanical Garden of the name of M. Gryshko on a variety of collections of living plants, the extent of territory, the level of research, is one of the leading places among the largest botanical gardens in Europe. National Botanic Garden was founded in 1935. It is the largest botanical gardens in Kyiv - it covers an area of 130 hectares. Here you can come just for a walk (especially the lovely garden in spring, when many flowering lilac bushes), or visit the tour in a greenhouse (exposure of plants in the tropics, a collection of orchids, azaleas and camellias). Real decoration of the Botanical Garden is an arboretum. An area of 30 hectares of the unique collection of trees, shrubs and lianas. A collection of lilacs, magnolias have become not only a hallmark botanical garden, but the city of Kiev. In the botanical garden, unique collections of tropical and subtropical plants, which are placed in greenhouses with total area of 5000 square meters. One of the biggest is a collection of tropical orchids, which employs more than 350 native species and varieties, which belong to 150 genera. The area where the Botanical Gardens, popularly called holy mountains. That there was "Kiev Athos" - a place where for centuries gone by "peace and bustle of the" hermit monks. It was here in 1860 to substantiate his reclusive home famous seer and healer monk Jonah, who later opened a men's Holy Trinity Monastery, which is now located in the center of the garden. A botanical garden terraces with unforgettable views of the Dnieper River, the left-bank part of Kiev, and another ancient monastery - Vydubytskyi.