National Botanic Garden (Zimbabwe)

National Botanic Garden of Zimbabwe is situated about 4 km North of Harare City Centre in the suburb of Alexandra Park.

Half of the gardens are devoted to indigenous plants from Zimbabwe's woodlands and include most of the 750 species found in the country.

Other areas contain plants typical to the African continent including rare and endangered species, as well as exotics from South America, India, Australia and the Far East.

[1] The name of the man who set up the Zimbabwe Botanical Garden is Hiram Wild who at the time was the head of the SRGH (Southern Rhodesian Government Herbarium).

At this time the herbarium was an old building that eventually moved to new, custom built premises in the National Gardens (circa 1967).