Botanical Gardens of our Department is an ex-situ treasures of
plant diversity concentrated in very limited space. They are considered as
important for the research, conservation and use of bio-diversity combined with
the task of teaching and raising awareness amongst the students & in
general public. Botanical Garden are also treated as public amenity and
important center for education due to rich and diverse plant collection and can
play a very vital role to encourage and to educate the people about the vast
and varied heritage of plant life in complete harmony with nature. The
developing role of botanical gardens in respect of biodiversity conservation,
environmental education and sustainable development provide great opportunities
and responsibilities for institutions throughout the world.
Ever
since the inception of the Department of Botany at this University in 1959, the
necessity for a botanical garden was immensely felt in order to cater to the
needs of teaching and research. Firstly, a nursery was established in order to
serve as a nucleus for the development of the botanical garden. The living
plants or their seeds were collected during various collection trips to the
Tirumala hills, Talakona and other parts of
the country.
Sri Venkateswara University Botanical Gardens
is a living museum, requiring equal parts living plants and aesthetically
pleasing displays. With beauty and plant health at the forefront of our
day-to-day operations, maintenance is a full-time job for the department and
their student volunteers. The water used is non-potable water from Kalyani dam
and University bore wells.
We are the State largest plant conservation
network, open to all. Join us in helping to save the valuble plants. Our
objective of maintaining this live museum is providing an educational
experience for Nature lovers, Students,Common People,Researchers,Social
communities. Our garden has the ability to keep more than 10,000
living spieces focused on providing medicated plants,rare beauty, education and
preservation of the Threatened Plant species in-vivo.
Our
Vision
‘‘While
maintaining botanical and aesthetic activities at higher level to become best
botanical garden in the state of Andhra Pradesh with high sustainable
conservation, cultivating valued medicinal plants, Rare species and native
plants of South India reaching plant resources to the general public through
valuing”.
