Botanical Park, Timișoara, Botanical garden in Timișoara, Romania.
The Botanical Park of Timișoara covers about 84,000 m², of which 74,500 m² are lawn and trees and 7,500 m² are alleys. Silvia Grumeza's 1966 design put the main entrance on Gheorghe Dima Street, opening onto a ground-level bed of decorative herbaceous plants that is still there. The central systematic sector has concentric paths around a basin, and a semicircular phytogeographic ring shows the flora of Banat.
The land was initially used for military exercises before the landscaper Árpád Mühle transformed it into a park in the early 1900s. This conversion marked the beginning of a botanical and recreational space for the city.
The garden issues a seed catalogue for exchange with other botanical gardens, a practice begun in 1987 and stopped after 1992. Since 2008 the Asian sector has included a Japanese garden with a traditional teahouse. In summer the park also hosts art activities.
The main entrance is on Gheorghe Dima Street, between the Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn House and the New Clinics. The park lies between Timișoara 700 Square and Mărăști Square, bordered by Gheorghe Dima, Gheorghe Lazăr, Alexandru Ioan Cuza and Pictor Ion Zaicu streets. Paths lead through the sectors, and the garden opened to visitors on 29 June 1986.
The park issued a seed catalogue from 1987 for exchange with other botanical gardens at home and abroad, an activity stopped after 1992. Among its rare trees are Kalopanax pictus, Cercidiphyllum japonicum and Phyllostachys aurea, species found in no other park in the city.
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