Royal Botanical garden, Peradeniya is one of the most beautiful places on the island. It lies approximately 5, 5 km West of the city of Kandy in the Central province of Sri Lanka and attracts 1 2 million visitors annually. The garden is famous for its diverse collection of plants, which includes more than 300 species of orchids, spices, medicinal plants and palm trees. The total area of the Botanical garden is 147 acres (0, 59 square kilometers). It is administered by the Department of National Botanical gardens Department of agriculture of Sri Lanka.

The origins of the Botanic gardens date back to the distant year 1371, when the king Wickramabahu III ascended the throne and moved his court in the Peradeniya near the Mahaweli river. He was followed by king Kirti Sri and the King of Rajadhi Rajasinghe. The Church on the site was built by king Vimala Dharma, but he was destroyed by the British, after they had gained control of the Kingdom of Kandy. After that the basis for the Botanical garden was laid by Alexander moon in 1821. Botanical garden in Peradeniya was formally established in 1843 with plants brought from Kew garden, island of Slaves, Colombo, and Kalutara garden in Kalutara. In 1844 when George Gardner garden grew and acquired great fame. In 1912, the garden came under the guardianship of the Department of agriculture of Sri Lanka.

The garden is also the Avenue of palms. There grows the wonderful tree, planted by king of the United Kingdom George V and Queen Mary in 1901. Tree branches bent down under the weight of fruits, which look like cannonballs.

During the Second world war, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme commander of allied forces in South Asia, used the Botanical garden as the headquarters of the General command of the South-East Asia.