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{{Short description|Botanical garden in Dhaka, Bangladesh}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox park
| name = Baldha Garden
| native_name = বলধা গার্ডেন
| native_name_lang = bn
| photo =
Pond of Baldha Garden - 1.jpg
| photo_width =
| photo_caption = Baldha Garden, Dhaka
| type = [[Botanical garden]]
| location = Wari, [[Dhaka]], [[Bangladesh]]
| coords = {{coord|23|43|06|N|90|25|04|E|source:kolossus-eswiki|display=title, inline}}
| map = Bangladesh
| map_label = Balda Garden
| area = {{convert|3.15|acre|m2}}
| created = 1909
| operator = Department of Forestry, [[Ministry of Environment and Forests]].
| visitation_num =
| status =
| open = All year
| embedded = {{Designation/divbox|Old Dhaka}}
}}

'''Baldha Garden''' is a [[botanical garden]] which spans {{convert|3.15|acre|ha}} of land located at Wari in the old part of the city of [[Dhaka]], the capital of [[Bangladesh]]. It has a collection of 672 species of plants.<ref name=Banglapedia>{{cite book
|author=Zia Uddin Ahmed
|chapter=Baldah Garden
|chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Baldah_Garden
|title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |editor=Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]] |year=2012 |edition=Second}}</ref>
The Baldha Garden is now managed as a satellite unit of the [[National Botanical Garden of Bangladesh|National Botanical Garden]] by the Department of Forestry.

Baldha Garden is one of the oldest botanical gardens in Bangladesh. The garden is enriched with rare plant species collected from different parts of the world.

Visitors expressed dismay in July 2024, over a fivefold increase in entry fee to the garden.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visitors outraged as entry fees raised fivefold for six botanical gardens, eco parks |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/351105/visitors-outraged-as-entry-fees-raised-fivefold |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=Dhaka Tribune |language=en}}</ref>

==History==
Baldha Garden is one of the oldest botanical gardens established in this part of Bengal. Narendra Narayan Roy Chaudhury, landlord of the Estate of Balda, began creating it in 1909 and continued to add to it until his death in 1943. He simultaneously built up a museum collection, which was known as the Balda Museum. The museum collections are now housed at the [[Bangladesh National Museum]].<ref>{{citation
|author=SM Humayun Kabir
|chapter=Baldah Museum
|chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Baldah_Museum
|title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |editor=Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]] |year=2012 |edition=Second}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="190" heights="190">
File:Baldha Garden 04.jpg
File:Bottle fly.jpg
File:Ant Fights.jpg
File:BABY AMAZON LILY.jpg
File:Baby red.jpg
File:Beauty Of Flower.jpg
File:Darter 09.jpg
File:Beautiful Plant at Baldha Garden.jpg
File:Araucaria plant at Baldha Garden.jpg
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Christian cemetery, Dhaka|Christian cemetery in Wari]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
{{commons category|Baldha Garden}}
* Muntasir Mamun, Dhaka: Smriti Bismritir Nogory, Volume-2, Pg- 142–143, Annana Publications.
* Cultural Survey of Bangladesh, Asiatek Society, Architecture, Asiatek Society of Bangladesh.

{{Use British English|date=November 2010}}

{{Protected Forests of Bangladesh}}

[[Category:Old Dhaka]]
[[Category:Botanical gardens in Bangladesh]]
[[Category:Parks in Dhaka]]

Baldha Garden - Revision history

RyanQuintana2 at 03:15, 3 March 2025