Empress Botanical Garden - Botanical garden in Pune - Pune, India

Place is absolutely perfect and amazing as greenery. Here we can see multiple plants with species, Specially every plant has it's own QR code to know about the plant. This place is specially for photoshoot of your pre-wedding, Baby shoot, or etc. The things they have maintained was not good and it needs some clean somewhere and hygiene. All over very amazing place. They are taking entry fees per person 20 Rs. For kids 10 and for parking 20 Rs. I have one suggestion as they are taking a money from visitors then they have to maintain it well...

Cinematic, photographers delight and nature at its best. Fortunate enough to capture the flower show which happens for few days in Jan where there were various display of buds, flowers, plants, etc. competing for the winners position. There is kids train ride with a beautiful stream of water as well. Must visit for garden lovers.

The place is fine but there is no variety in here. Upper parts of the park is filled with couples. It kind of become uncomfortable at time if you are with family as they make out. The lower part or shall I say the secrion where entrance is the only place to look for. It has kids are and a garden for old age people. In terms of flower you won't find many. Nonetheless, it is a peaceful and clean park. Be prepared to wear chappals as trails get muddy in rain

Lots of crowd for photoshoots, children parks and couples. Did not have a very good experience or not as expected from a botanical garden theme. There was one whole section where it was not allowed to enter. If you buy plants then only you could enter there. Bit weird. Its good that every tree had QR codes to scan and read more info.

Visited Empress Garden after quite some time again recently. This place seems to be a hotspot for commercial photography as I saw more than 3 groups of commercial photographers with extensive equipment and props along with models with their ornate clothes getting dirty in mud. The trees and very old and form a very dense canopy. There is a small train which takes kids (and sometimes elders) on a tide around the premises. The Empress Garden Nursery is located inside the garden premises. The nursery is vast with quite a lot of variety of plants. However half the plants I asked for were unavailable at the time. The staff is helpful but the person escorting me around albeit polite and helpful, seemed less interested in showing me around (and I got the impression that I was told the plants I was looking for were unavailable just because he wasn't bothered to go and look for them, but I'd like to stay positive and assume it wasn't the case). Nevertheless, there are some rules in the nursery which are needed to be implemented for the nursery to stay serene and calm, the way it is- no loitering and entering without intent of buying plants, bringing foodstuff and eating them inside, and being anti-social in general (all 3 things I saw happening inside). The nursery is cost effective and the quality of the plants is good as well. The soil they come in does not have any contaminants in them and I haven't found any problems with it so far.

Entry charges:20 Parking: 10 for bike Entry part and Bajaj Auditorium is good to visit. Mostly people visit for photo shoot. There is special section for photo shoot. But else place is not good. Other part is mostly for nibba nibbi. They don't have control over non acceptable activities. If you are planning to visit. Visit for only the two things as mention over.

Nice Gardan .Play ground and different activities for children. Paid activities are also available. Different shoot locations. Entry fee 20rupees. Lots of 2w and 4w parking available.

A wonderful green heaven that has not been maintained as it should be. The place is filled with tall trees, shrubs, green setups, a small water stream, swings for kids, benches, etc. The stream was not much clean. The garden is visited by numerous couples. Seems annoying when you see them at every nook and corner of the place except at the kids play zone. The garden is a quite place away from the city hustle bustle, but needs attention in terms of maintenance, cleanliness and a bit monitoring the crowd(couple) activities.