The Batumi Botanical Garden is located on an area of ​​111 hectares, 9 km from Batumi near the Zeleny Mys railway station (in the village of Mtsvane-Kontskhi). It was one of the largest botanical gardens in the USSR.

It was founded by the Russian botanist and geographer Andrei Nikolaevich Krasnov, brother of General P. N. Krasnov, in 1880 and was officially opened on November 3, 1912. Krasnov considered the main task of the garden to be the acclimatization of economically valuable subtropical plants and their introduction into cultivation in the southern regions of Russia.

At the beginning of the 21st century, it consisted of nine floristic divisions: the humid subtropics of Transcaucasia, New Zealand, Australia, Himalayan, East Asian, North American, South American, Mexican and Mediterranean. The collection of living plants includes over 5 thousand species, varieties and forms, including about 2 thousand species of trees and shrubs.