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Greenhouses to visit in Ukraine

The Verrière atlas lists 14 greenhouses in Ukraine, built between 1838 and 1995.

Ukraine's greenhouses belong mostly to university botanical gardens and owe much to the 1970s: Lviv, Dnipro and Chernivtsi, the last two built to the same plans. In Kyiv, the Fomin garden's great orangery, 30 metres tall, rises around a Livistona billed as the country's oldest palm. Odesa University's 1886 orangery reopened thanks to residents' donations after a missile strike in March 2024, while in Lviv century-old trees have come through the winters of war. In Crimea, the winter garden of the Vorontsov Palace at Alupka dates from 1838, and the Nikitsky garden's cactus house from the 1990s.

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1838Oldest — Winter Garden of the Vorontsov Palace (Zimniy sad Vorontsovskogo dvortsa)

1995Newest — Cactus Orangery, Nikitsky Botanical Garden (Kaktusovaya oranzhereya)

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Winter Garden of the Vorontsov Palace (Zimniy sad Vorontsovskogo dvortsa)

🇺🇦 Alupka, Crimea

The only survivor of the original planting, a Ficus repens still climbs the walls of this winter garden created in 1838.

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Historic Orangery, Botanical Garden of Odesa National University

🇺🇦 Odesa, Odesa Oblast

Damaged by a missile attack in March 2024, the 1886 orangery reopened that October thanks to donations from Odesa residents.

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Greenhouses of the Zaporizhzhia City Children's Botanical Garden (Tropicana, Winter Garden, Cactusarium), Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Greenhouses of the Zaporizhzhia City Children's Botanical Garden (Tropicana, Winter Garden, Cactusarium)

🇺🇦 Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Tropicana, a 910 m² glasshouse over 15 m high, welcomed the public in 2024 after the garden had been closed for four years.

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Orangery of VDNH (Expocentre of Ukraine), Pavilion No. 28 'Floriculture and Landscape Gardening', Kyiv

Orangery of VDNH (Expocentre of Ukraine), Pavilion No. 28 'Floriculture and Landscape Gardening'

Opened in 1958 with VDNH as a floriculture pavilion, the orangery still holds palms, mandarins and lemon trees in its three halls.

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Great Orangery, Fomin Botanical Garden

A 30-metre orangery, presented when built as the tallest in Europe, around Ukraine's oldest palm.

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Greenhouse of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Botanical Garden (Оранжерея Ботанічного саду Львівського університету), Lviv

Greenhouse of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Botanical Garden (Оранжерея Ботанічного саду Львівського університету)

Beneath a 24-metre glass roof, a century-old Canary Island date palm and bunya pine have come through the winters of war.

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Orangery of the Chernivtsi National University Botanical Garden (Botanichnyi Sad ChNU)

🇺🇦 Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast

Commissioned in 1974, it has a single twin in Ukraine: the orangery of the Dnipro botanical garden, built to the same plans.

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Exhibition Orangery of the Dnipro National University Botanical Garden (Ekspozytsiina oranzhereia)

🇺🇦 Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Its palms include a Canary Island date palm planted in 1926, half a century before the glasshouse itself came into use.

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Orangery of the Botanical Garden of Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, Poltava, Poltava Oblast

Orangery of the Botanical Garden of Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University

🇺🇦 Poltava, Poltava Oblast

Under the glass of a 1990 university greenhouse, a 40-year-old agave stands among palms, cacti and aloes in central Poltava.

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Cactus Orangery, Nikitsky Botanical Garden (Kaktusovaya oranzhereya), Nikita, near Yalta, Crimea

Cactus Orangery, Nikitsky Botanical Garden (Kaktusovaya oranzhereya)

🇺🇦 Nikita, near Yalta, Crimea

In the 1990s the collection was saved from the cold by wagonloads of coal received as payment for research on mine spoil heaps.

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Orangeries of the Karazin University Botanical Garden (Харківський ботанічний сад), Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast

Orangeries of the Karazin University Botanical Garden (Харківський ботанічний сад)

🇺🇦 Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast

Ukraine's oldest botanical garden (1804) keeps orangeries of about 1,000 m² for some 3,000 tropical and subtropical taxa.

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Orangery Complex and Glass Dome, Hryshko National Botanical Garden, Kyiv (Pechersk)

Orangery Complex and Glass Dome, Hryshko National Botanical Garden

🇺🇦 Kyiv (Pechersk)

Under a glass roof about 30 m high, a tropical collection with national-heritage status, kept warm through the war.

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Orangery of the Botanical Garden of Uzhhorod National University (Botanichnyi sad UzhNU), Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Oblast

Orangery of the Botanical Garden of Uzhhorod National University (Botanichnyi sad UzhNU)

🇺🇦 Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Oblast

In the orangery of Uzhhorod University, renovated since 2000, banana plants touch the ceiling and camellias flower in February.

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Orangery of the Kryvyi Rih Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Orangereia KBS), Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Orangery of the Kryvyi Rih Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Orangereia KBS)

🇺🇦 Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Under a steel-framed glass roof that is costly to heat, the Kryvyi Rih garden brings azaleas and camellias into flower in late winter.

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