Baldha Garden Explained

Baldha Garden
Native Name:বলধা গার্ডেন
Native Name Lang:bn
Type:Botanical garden
Location:Wari, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Coords:23.7183°N 90.4178°W
Map:Bangladesh
Map Label:Balda Garden
Area:3.15acres
Created:1909
Operator:Department of Forestry, Ministry of Environment and Forests.
Open:All year

Baldha Garden is a botanical garden which spans 3.15acres of land located at Wari in the old part of the city of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It has a collection of 672 species of plants.[1] The Baldha Garden is now managed as a satellite unit of the National Botanical Garden by the Department of Forestry.

Baldha Garden is one of the oldest botanical gardens in Bangladesh. The garden is enriched with rare plant species collected from different parts of the world.

History

Baldha Garden is one of the oldest botanical gardens established in this part of Bengal. Narendra Narayan Roy Chaudhury, landlord of the Estate of Balda, began creating it in 1909 and continued to add to it until his death in 1943. He simultaneously built up a museum collection, which was known as the Balda Museum. The museum collections are now housed at the Bangladesh National Museum.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Zia Uddin Ahmed . Baldah Garden. http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Baldah_Garden. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh . Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal . . 2012 . Second.