Zeytinburnu Medicinal Plant Garden

Not what I expected but of course I came here for wrong season but anyway the variety of plants were so low for me.

Zeytinburnu Medicinal Plants Garden is the first active medicinal plant garden in Turkey. Opened in 2005 with contributions of Zeytinburnu Municipality and Merkezefendi Traditional Medicine Association, our garden aims what an academic botanical garden aims. In the garden; we aim to study and cultivate the plants, ensure the growth and spread of new ones, to protect those under risk, to contribute to biodiversity, to encourage people to recognize medicinal plants and make them a part of the culture, and to train people on cultivation, and efficient and safe use of medicinal plants by benefiting from medical flora. Currently, around 700 medical and aromatic plant species are cultivated in the garden. In selection of plants, those endemic to Anatolia have priority. We work to ensure the adaptation of the seeds and seedlings obtained from nature, reliable institutions and horticulturists, or through donations, flora excursions organized to collect plant species and learn about ethnobotany, and seed exchange festivals, to the climate and soil conditions in the Garden. We contribute to survival of local seeds with seed exchange festivals organized or participated by ZEYTİNBURNU MEDİCİNAL PLANTS GARDEN.nnHow do you provide the habitat in Zeytinburnu Medicinal Plants Garden where 700 plants are cultivated? Could you inform us about the activities of the Garden?nnIn our garden, each plant is grown in the most suitable island-parcel. Plants from tropical and subtropical climates are in the large greenhouse. There is also a production greenhouse. In addition to island-parcels, there is a site for bulbous plants, a low tunnel, a rock garden, a vegetable garden, and nursery. We do not use synthetic fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides in the garden; plant matter is utilized as natural fertilizer, and we apply natural solutions against pests. We use drip and sprinkler irrigation methods. Parts of plants used for medical purposes are harvested, dried, kept in freezer and preserved in drug lockers by our personnel. The plants collected while in bloom are dried, fixed on special cardboards, kept in freezer, and take their place in the herbarium (dried plants collection). In addition, the morphology and anatomy of plants are studied in the laboratory, essential and fixed oils are obtained. Tinctures, ointments, creams, perfumes, colognes, and soaps are produced as well as kefir, and saps are processed against plant pests. Our personnel, interns and trainees can benefit from the herbarium and laboratory.nnWith seminar halls, specialization library, sundial and nature calendar which are original structures that explain the natural cycle, especially the small animal shelter that makes it easier for children to perceive nature as an ecosystem, Garden is an educational institute for all ages. Visitors distinguish the plants by labels, and learn which parts of the plant are medicinal and can be used for other purposes. Every year, tens of university students from related disciplines make their internship in our garden. We also carry out a voluntary gardening program. In this context, Garden also offers those who have never had a chance to closely know the soil and plants, the opportunity to be close to the nature as well as equipping them with agricultural knowledge and practical skills. Some of our volunteers start growing medicinal plants in their fields, gardens or balconies.

Good to get Information about plant , can see some tropical plant also

A fresh breath in a chaotic metropolis. One remembers how simple life supposed to be and how complicated we all made.nChildren can enjoy the small zoo at the back. Seed and plants can be purchased.

It has so many things to see the plants the clock too