Vilnius University (VU) Botanic Garden was founded in 1781. Historical circumstances led to the Botanic Garden several times moved from one place to another. The Garden owns the land in two last historical areas (in Vingis Park and Kairėnai) at present. Modern Botanic Garden is not only the largest in Lithuania (the total area of 199 hectares) but also have the richest collections of plants: here grown about 9,000 taxa of plants belonging to 190 families, 886 genera. Richest ...