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Peter the Great Botanical Garden

Afanasovich · CC BY-SA 4.0

20% trees around it and 201 species recorded.

34Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km20%
  • wild within 10 km45%
  • species recorded201

The forest around

20% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 16%Water 12%Cropland 0%Built-up 72%Trees 21%Grassland 1%Water 12%Cropland 1%Built-up 66%Trees 29%Grassland 3%Water 8%Cropland 1%Built-up 60%Trees 26%Grassland 4%Wetland 0%Water 17%Bare ground 1%Cropland 2%Built-up 49%20%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km16%
  • 1–3 km21%
  • 3–6 km29%
  • 6–10 km26%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees21%
  • Grassland1%
  • Water12%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up66%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

201 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Shrubby Cinquefoil
Shrubby CinquefoilDasiphora fruticosa14 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Disc mayweed
Disc mayweedMatricaria discoidea12 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata12 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spring fumewort
Spring fumewortCorydalis solida11 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Corydalis bracteata
Corydalis bracteataCorydalis bracteata11 recordsKor!An (Андрей Корзун) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Purpleflowering raspberry
Purpleflowering raspberryRubus odoratus9 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Sten assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria9 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Silverweed
SilverweedArgentina anserina9 recordsKyle Nessen · CC0
Chenopodium album
Chenopodium albumChenopodium album8 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Creeping Thistle
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense8 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Common dandelion
Common dandelionTaraxacum officinale8 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus7 recordsИгоревич · Public domain

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

34out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 20%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 45%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 201Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking in June.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-7°-12°49 mm
  2. Feb-5°-11°41 mm
  3. Mar0°-6°43 mm
  4. Apr8°0°52 mm
  5. May15°6°69 mm
  6. Jun19°11°90 mm
  7. Jul22°14°98 mm
  8. Aug20°13°98 mm
  9. Sep15°8°63 mm
  10. Oct7°2°72 mm
  11. Nov0°-3°66 mm
  12. Dec-4°-8°58 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Peter the Great Botanical Garden.

Oldest botanical garden in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Peter the Great Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Russia.

Seen from space, 20% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 45% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

201 species have been recorded around it: 107 plants, 29 fungi, 65 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Shrubby Cinquefoil, Disc mayweed and Garlic Mustard.

The best time to walk is in June.

Greenhouse 28. Victor Greenhouse
Afanasovich · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Peter the Great Botanical Garden seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1marked trails within 5 km
  • 31named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 8picnic sites within 4 km
  • 55shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 35viewpoints within 5 kmСтрелка Васильевского острова, Невская панорама, Арка Новой Голландии and 32 more
  • 12visitor centres within 6 kmКассы, Городское туристско-информационное бюро, Информационно-туристский центр Ленинградской области and 9 more
  • 795car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmAurora, Нева, Елизар
  • 1,243places to stay within 10 kmСтарый город, Астери, Le Vashoff Hotel and 1,240 more
  • 830restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Peter the Great Botanical Garden.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Pulkovo Mountain74 m · 22 km
Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Lakhtinsky Razliv0.9 km² · 8.7 kmShuvalovsky Quarry0.3 km² · 9.2 kmOkhta Reservoir0.3 km² · 9.4 kmIvanovsky Quarry0.3 km² · 12 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
Saint Petersburg PlanetariumBortle 9 · 1.9 kmThe Voeikov Main Geophysical ObservatoryBortle 9 · 2.8 kmObservatory of Kunstkamera, Saint PetersburgBortle 9 · 3.4 kmPulkovo ObservatoryBortle 8 · 22 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Botanical research laboratory, Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden
Dolly442 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Allium moly, Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden Northern Yard
Dolly442 · CC BY-SA 3.0
0583Ga. St. Petersburg. Peter the Great Botanical Garden in Autumn
Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Peter the Great Botanical Garden

Russia

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 20%Trees
  • 45%Wild
  • 201Species

Kovalevsky Forest

Russia · 13 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 173Species

See the guide

Shuvalovsky Park

Russia · 12 km

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 343Species

See the guide

Alexander Garden

Russia · 4 km

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 8%Trees
  • 44%Wild
  • 892Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1990013) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species3,726 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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