Plant Gardens 101

There are different types of gardens everywhere around us for ex. Public garden, private garden, botanical gardens etc. In such places different types of plants are cultivated and conserved. In public and private gardens we give more importance for their aesthetic value because the main purpose of these gardens is recreation. But in botanical garden apart from the aesthetic value more importance is given to its educational value as well as their utilities. Botanical gardens play an important role in maintaining the ecological balance. This is why botanical gardens are different from other types of gardens. Role of botanical garden:

The botanical gardens mainly serve the education purpose. Here characteristics of the plants are improved for the taxonomic and horticulture studies.

Due to increasing quantity of industries and residential zone, the natural plantation is decreasing day by day. This decrease results in different types of environmental pollutions like water pollution, soil pollution, air pollution etc. Due to the increasing pollution levels, there is ecological imbalance and adversely affects the animals as well as plants. The botanical gardens can take place of the natural plantation and serve as the places for pollution control and other ecological problems.

In the botanical gardens the plant species which are rare and biologically important are conserved. (more…)