Botanical Garden

Since summer 2018, complex research and development and other works on reconstruction of the Botanical Garden have been carried out. Today, apart from the research and development works materials, there is a project for the restoration of the seeds greenhouse which will soon be implemented. Also, there is a draft (a conception) of the garden territory that proposes future fields of development of the botanical collections and outdoors area exhibitions. Above all, the Botanical Garden is a plant research collection. All the activities of the Garden must take this key target into account. There are two basic types of growing plants — systematic and compositional. They have different planning and can be implemented in different parts of the Garden.

There are collections of live plants cultivated both in greenhouses and in outdoors areas.

Greenhouses

In the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of the University there are the following collections of live plants:

• tropics and subtropics plants
• dry regions plants (succulents)
• aquatic and coastal plants
• systematic collections of conifers and sporophytes

Outdoor area

In the outdoor area there is an arboretum. This is a collection of tree and shrubbery plantings, and a collection of decorative herbs. For a long time in the Garden there have been collections of plants endemic to the North-West region of Russia; a section with systematic planting that illustrated the flora lost in the end of the last century. It is necessary to restore the sections with systematic plants and local plants, as they are the most valuable in teaching students.

Fields of development of the future botanical collections and exhibitions in the outdoor area

• a range of decorative plants that are successfully used in gardening and urban landscaping in the North-West region of Russia
• section with flora of the North-West region (ecological exhibition)
• flora of the Far East and North America that shows the area disjunction effect
• flora exhibitions, including collections of separate generic complexes in compliance with scientific interests of the staff of the Department of Botany
• ecology collections-exhibitions (rockery with tundra and mountains plants, a collection of aquatic and coastal plants and others)
• collections that demonstrate the results of introduction of new plants including adventitious and synanthropic species
• collections that demonstrate methods and results of the selection of food and technical plants
• a collection of medicinal plants
• memorial collections that record the work of scientists who worked at the beginning of the Garden and the Department of Botany, and who developed them up until today