Botanical Garden | Page 3

Enjoying the garden

According to Pak Wayan, a tour guide for the visitors of the botanical garden, the botanical garden is recommended for people to come so that they have a better understanding of the plant life in Bali and to see the rare plants that are only available in Bali. He says that for him, the botanical garden is a very positive one. He says that the botanical garden provides a very good opportunities for people of all ages to learn more about nature and their surrounding environments. He also says that the botanical garden helps to not only educate people, but also benefits the plants by helping to conserve them. He also says that he thinks that people enjoy going to the garden because of the many plants there, including several endangered species and to experience learning about the local plants in Bali in a beautiful and relaxing setting. This fact can be proven by the number of visitor the garden has in a year, with an enormous number of 450,000 visitors.

Maintaining the garden

It turns out that the garden is actually quite difficult to maintain because of the abundance of staff needed to care for the plants in the garden, which is enormous and it can actually be a challenge to keep the plants healthy and safe from disease, rotting or dying because of the temperature a certain species needs. Pak Wayan says that it can be a challenge to find staff for the In order to keep the plants healthy, the gardeners in the botanical garden need to be feed and water the plants based on the amount of water or fertiliser the plant needs. Pak Wayan says that the garden only uses the best natural fertiliser for their plants and makes sure they are healthy.

Pak Wayan, the wise tour guide informs the students about many plant and conservation facts.