Royal Botanical Gardens (Peradeniya) Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya (Sinhala: රාජකීය උද්භිද උද්යානය, පේරාදෙණිය; Tamil: பேராதனை தாவரவியற் பூங்கா) is one of the botanical gardens in Sri Lanka. The garden is located in Peradeniya, about 6 km to the southwest of the Kandy town. It is considered one of the few classic botanic gardens in the world. History
As suggested by Sir Joseph Banks, a garden named Kew was established in 1810 on a land area of 7 acres in Slave Island, Colombo and William Kerr was appointed as its superintendent (Fernando, 2003). Considering the limit of the land and the flood situation that affected the garden frequently, in 1813, the garden was moved to Uggalbada in Kalutara (Fernando, 2003: Gunawardena, 2003). Kerr died in 1814, and Alexander Moon assumed the duty as the new superintendent in 1817 (Fernando, 2003). It was later realized that Peradeniya has a favourable and better-adapting environment for the proposed botanic establishment and therefore, Moon took the necessary measurements to mov…
