PGRC | Botanic Gardens
Entebbe Botanic Gardens (EBG) was established in 1898 as Uganda’s first agricultural research unit. The Gardens occupy an area of 40.7 hectares spanning a long shore line of approximately 1.5 km of Lake Victoria. The Gardens were established for the purpose of receiving and assembling economically important agricultural commodities like cotton, rubber, cocoa, tea, coffee and spices to test their potential as key drivers of economic transformation. The Gardens currently have a total holding of over 500 plant species including both exotic and indigenous. These plants are categorized into indigenous and exotic fruits, medicinal, beverage, spices, ornamentals, timber, oils and important crop wild relatives, several of these threatened in the wild and agro-ecosystems.
What makes Entebbe Botanic Gardens so pleasantly special?
- Entebbe Botanic Gardens has a total land area of 40 hectares.
- 5 km along Lake Victoria shore line; all of which present a breath-taking scenery.
- A walk along the beach into the haunted forest.
- A rock garden in the Entebbe Botanic Gardens.
- A medicinal garden which sustains a big proportion of the Uganda rural peasant.
The Gardens have a collection of 389 species of higher plants.
Flavors of nature
The diversity of friendly spider types with their 'hi-tech' cobwebs will have already sent you thinking about your creation. The red tailed, the vervet and the beautiful Colobus monkeys soaring high in the branches above the natural, cool, ever flowing forest springs will be going on with their daily duties unbothered by your presence.
Entebbe Botanic Gardens has a total land area of 40 hectares stretching over steep as well as gently indurating hills, large expenses of specious lawn, beautiful tropical natural forest, biodiversity rich wetlands. Entering one of the remnants of a tropical forest, your welcomed by friendly spider types with 'hi-tech' cobwebs.
1.5km along Lake Victoria shore line; all of which present a breathtaking scenery you would never catch anywhere with just one stop. The variety of scenic views is enriched by the great diversity of plant and animals’ life. A walk along the beach and out into the open wood and grasslands will have exposed to your eye not less than 32 different bird types, some of which may have arrived at the same time with the European travelers, only using a different air transport system (gliding along the rift valley).
A range of plant species that enjoy growing in rocky habitats can be viewed.
A wide range of ornamentals, most of which are available for sale, can be found in the nursery. To mention but a few Coconuts palm, Oil palm, Indian lilac, Hores cassia, Canon ball tree, Loquat, Bermuda cedar, Mediterranean cypress. Come, see, enjoy and buy.
The Medicinals which sustain a big proportion of the Uganda rural peasant as well as representing all corners of the globe; the so-called cash crops (such as coffee, tea, rubber and cocoa) which sustain the economies of the developing world; the intriguing orchards of improved varieties of horticultural crops, the indigenous precious timber trees, the indigenous fruits of Uganda. All these are part of over 500 species represented in the Gardens
In addition to offered leisure, the garden also offers opportunities to learn to care for the environment, taking care and conserving useful plants and real-life experiences for students of tourism. By this time all you need is a cool shade and cool refreshment both of which are never in short supply.
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