VILAR (botanical garden): green corner in the center of the megalopolis

On the territory of the Moscow district of Butovothere is an amazing oasis of medicinal plants and aromatic herbs - VILAR - Botanical Garden. A research institute with a garden was located in the former manor of the famous patron and pharmacist Ferrain in the distant 1931. Such a huge area - more than 45 hectares - no more gardens can boast!

A bit of history of the birth of botanical gardens

About the unique healing properties of medicinalHerbs were known in ancient times, and in the Middle Ages, monks broke up small gardens at monasteries. The first persons of the state tried to promote the development of “pharmaceutical gardens”, encouraged the importation of plants from other countries and even continents - green treasures were supplied from the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula and the black continent. Later, the “pharmaceutical gardens” have grown to the size of botanical gardens.

Experimental fields

Botanical garden VILAR (Butovo) is famous for the wholethe world with its experimental fields, plants and seeds, which the institute exchanges with more than fifty gardens on the globe. On its vast lands, students of agricultural high schools learn the basics of botany and carry out scientific work by renowned professors.

Virtual walk through VILAR - Botanical Garden

At the entrance to the botanical garden we are met by a plotwith plants divided by pharmacological characteristics. Plants that have a tonic effect on the body grow first. Among them are the famous and popular among the people Eleutherococcus, lemongrass, golden root. Behind them there are plants of a calming spectrum of action: motherwort, Marien root, valerian ... On this pharmacopic part of the garden you can find medicinal plants of the whole range of effects on the human body, there are more than two hundred of them.

The whole territory of VILAR (botanical garden is verylarge, we recall), is divided into several botanical and geographical zones: the Caucasus, Siberia, the Far East, Central Asia, the Crimea, European Russia, North America and Europe. Here grow wild plants inherent in a particular territorial zone. Preference is given to edificators - plants that are a kind of "calling card" of the region, and medicinal plants of scientific value. Total trees, bushes and grasses in the garden, there are about one and a half thousand.

VILAR - botanical garden, which has its own greenhouse with tropical and subtropical plants. In the greenhouse complex carefully grown five hundred heat-loving plants.

Man-made ponds

At the site of the former ravines and tributary of the river Bittsa inIn the second half of the 20th century, three man-made ponds were comfortably located. In some places springs still beat - so the little river makes itself felt. Locals have long loved the VILAR Botanical Garden. Fishing is a particularly popular activity in ponds, and lovers of “quiet hunting” come here from other parts of the capital.

Scientific and educational work

VILAR - Botanical Garden, which is activelydraws the attention of schoolchildren to environmental issues, conducting educational tours throughout the year: in the winter in the greenhouse complex, in the summer in the garden. There are special directions for the disabled and retirees. Experimental fields are used to study the beneficial properties of herbs by pharmacist students and students of landscape design colleges.

This green island of nature invariably attracts people who are tired of the crazy city rhythm and want to enjoy the cleanliness and freshness of a wild corner.