SCHOOL BOTANICAL GARDEN IN KASTEL LUKSIC

School botanical garden occupies the space around the school building "Vjeko Butir" which is beside the highway Split - Trogir, on a space of 2.3 ha. This garden was established according to merit and voluntary working of pupils and teaching staff, right after their moving into the new school building in 1976. On the above mentioned space plant groupings were formed according to their geographic and ecological belonging and purposes. Some more important spatial totalities are grouped into the following plant groups:

- Mediterranean autochtonous plants

- swampy plants

- medicinal plants

- subtropics and tropic plants on protected locations

- arboretum

Such conception gives some neatness to the garden and it stresses educational importance.

Olive plantation with its 13 sorts of olive trees into which besides native species are included French, Italian and Spanish, presents a special value of the garden. These species of olive trees were sent as a present to this school by the world organization FAO.

There are more than 800 taxa into this garden which belong to 122 families, and they are represented by over 15.000 specimen of seedlings. So, this garden together with those in Trsteno and Lokrum is a rich and qualitative horticultural object of our east Adriatic seaside. This school botanical garden has been put under the protection in 1986 as a horticultural monument - botanical garden.