Located at the place called Mtsvane Kontskhi ("The Green Cape") on the Black Sea shore, it is one of the largest botanical gardens in the former Soviet Union.

He was aided by two skilled gardeners and decorators: the French D’Alphonse and the Georgian Yason Gordeziani.

[2] Under the Soviet Union, the garden was further expanded and developed, since 1925, into a principal institution for the study of Caucasian maritime subtropical cultures.

Currently, the garden consists of nine floristic sectors, those of Caucasian humid subtropics, East Asia, New Zealand, South America, the Himalayas, Mexico, Australia, and of the Mediterranean.

The garden collection comprises 2037 taxonomic units of woody plants, including 104 of Caucasian origin.