Kyiv National Botanical Garden
Hillside botanical garden with a famed lilac collection, orchid greenhouses and river panoramas.
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This guide to the Hryshko National Botanical Garden in Kyiv follows Valentina Zhogoleva, a horticulturist who worked among its lilacs in a field run almost entirely by men. It moves through the post-war planting of this hillside above the Dnipro and the breeders who began naming blossoms after Cossacks, novel heroes and poets. Best heard in the lilac garden in late spring, facing the river and the Vydubychi Monastery.
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