Blue Irises in Botanical Garden Balchik
by Amalia Suruceanu
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Blue Irises in Botanical Garden Balchik
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Amalia Suruceanu
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Almost yearly we visit Queen Maria Palace and the botanical garden in Balchik, Bulgaria, part of an architectural and park complex, which is a piece of heaven and a must-see tourist attraction on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. The Palace is a designated archaeological and constructional monument of culture and a monument of gardening and landscape art.
The botanical garden is an incredibly well-maintained garden in an amazing place, full of multicolour beautiful flowers- roses, tulips, jasmine, narcissi, clematis, irises, peonies, etc, and ancient trees.
In this flower kingdom, Queen Maria gave a name to each garden and alley. Here you can go through the “Walk of wine”, “Walk of Ages”, “Hanging terraces”, “Divine garden”, “English garden”. Some of the most attractive is “The garden with water mirror”, “The Bridge of the palace” and “The Bridge of Sighs”.
One of the biggest attractions is the collection of giant cacti growing outdoors from April to October. This is the second of this kind in Europe after that one in Monaco.
Here you can see rare and exotic trees such as rubber tree, oriental raisin tree, paper mulberry, red juniper, ancient Ginkgo biloba, evergreen magnolia, etc. Of Interest is also the Metasequoia, which was considered extinct until during a scientific expedition in China a Bulgarian scholar found a living plant.
Inside the garden- chapels, yards, fountains and buildings in various styles were built – typical Bulgarian, Transylvanian, Byzantine, Roman, Arabic, Mauritanian.
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December 11th, 2021
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