Supervisor: Kamila Rakowska-Szlązkiewicz, M.Sc.

General Data:
Number of taxa: 790
Area: 1.3 hectares

The Perennial Collection brings together more than 788 taxa, or species and varieties of both botanical and garden ground ornamental plants. In the central part, a meandering lawn highlights compositions of perennials growing in irregular beds against a background of interesting species and varieties of ornamental trees and shrubs. The perennial species planted here are plants that bloom from early summer to late autumn. These include groups of asters (Aster) and divans (Helenium). Rock garden plants are presented on a rocky hill. These include spring-flowering perennials such as heart-shaped bergenia (Bergenia cordifolia), spring lovage (Adonis vernalis), rock tarsier (Alyssum saxatile), garden sailfish (Aubrieta deltoidea). Stone walls and a wooden palisade form terraces on the slope intended for semi-shade plants. The most numerous group here are species and varieties of funkia (Hosta). Currently, about 80 of their species and varieties are growing in the collection.

The reservoirs and connecting watercourses are home to typically aquatic species, while plants of wet and swampy sites grow along their banks.

On a rocky hill with mountain plants, water flows into two small ponds. In one of them grows four-leaf marseilles (Marsilea quadrifolia). It is an aquatic fern with leaves resembling four-leaf clovers. The species is no longer found in natural conditions in Poland. Its last stand was in Silesia, on the shores of Lake Goczałkowice.

Near Marseilles grows a full-flowered variety of marsh marigold (Caltha palustris 'Multiplex') with a multiplied number of petals. Walking along the stone path through the middle of the large reservoir or over the bridge of the second smaller one, or going around the lower reservoir, we can admire plants with floating leaves (such as white water lily - 'White Mushroom'. Nymphaea alba, yellow watercress - Nuphar lutea, water mushroom - Nymphoides peltata), underwater plants (e.g., Canadian soak -. Elodea canadensis, rigid horn - Ceratophyllum demersum), or rush plants (e.g., broadleaf scabious -. Typha latifolia, calamus - Acorus calamus).

Two separate expositions displaying the varietal richness of lilies and peonies are adjacent to each other in the central part of the Botanical Garden. The basis of the lily collection is about 150 garden varieties of hybrid origin. In contrast, a small collection of peonies presents 44 varieties of Chinese peony (Paeonia lactiflora) and three varieties of peony (Paeonia officinalis).