Old postcards Old postcards Nikita Botanical Garden

The Nikita Botanical Garden dates from 1812: in March the naturalist Christian Steven was appointed director of the new Imperial garden on the South Coast of Crimea, and the first plantings followed that September. It lies between the village of Nikita and the sea, next to Cape Martyan.

These Soviet postcards of the Nikita Botanical Garden all belong to a single 1986 set that tours the grounds park by park. The Upper Park gives the display rose garden, a chrysanthemum show, exotic conifers and the colonnade of the Summer Theatre. The Lower Park has the palm avenue, a grove of Lebanon cedars, a gazebo, the entrance and a pool for aquatic plants. The Seaside Park is represented by palms and a Greek strawberry tree (Arbutus andrachne), and the Montedor park by a corner view and more water-plant pools.

Two cards turn to the Cape Martyan nature reserve, set up in 1973 on the garden’s land: the sea boundary between the Seaside Park and the reserve, and a corner of the reserve itself; another shows the garden and its laboratory building from the water.

Because most captions name a particular plant or part of the grounds, the set also suits collectors of botanical subjects.

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