Botanical Garden (Gatchina)

The Botanical Garden in Gatchina, located in the Palace Park, was created in 1793–1798 according to the design of architect Vincenzo Brenna and garden master F. Helmholtz. The garden is divided into the Upper and Lower parts, where geometric bosquets of regular shape are bounded by packed roads one to two sazhens wide. A stone greenhouse was used for exotic southern plants that decorated the flower hill, and in the 19th century yews, elms, and beeches were replaced with lindens and oaks, more suitable for the local climate. On the garden territory, two identical round ponds from the Kurakin period have been preserved, as well as the foundations of the wooden house of Peter I's sister, Natalia Alekseevna.