Orman Garden

The Orman Garden at Giza, Cairo is one of the most famous Botanical gardens in Egypt. It was founded in 1875 during the reign of Khedive Isma'il Pasha. He established the garden on a larger site than it presently occupies as part of the Palace of the Khedive. A great lover of gardens, the Khedive entrusted the design of the garden to the French landscaper Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps. It became a public botanical garden in 1910/1917 and put under the Ministry of Agriculture management. The garden covers about 28 acres. Today, the garden contains a rock garden, a rose garden, cactus gardens, and probably the most notable feature, the lotus pond. Orman Garden is west of the River Nile and east of Cairo University in the Giza Governorate. "Orman" is a Turkish word, which means "the forest". A small botanical museum attached to the garden shelters herbaria dating from the Ismail khedive and furniture from the king Farouk.

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