Botanic gardens · London
Britain's botanic gardens tour
Six great public collections from Cornwall to Edinburgh.
Britain's botanic gardens — Kew, Wakehurst, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Cambridge University Botanic Garden, the Eden Project's biomes, the Lost Gardens of Heligan — combine scientific collection with landscape design. Together they preserve over 70,000 plant species, more than any other country relative to its size.
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★ Iconic📷 10Botanic gardens · London
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The world's most celebrated botanic garden — UNESCO, 50,000 plants, 1759.
★ Iconic📷 3Botanic gardens · Central Scotland
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Founded 1670, Edinburgh's 70-acre garden — world's largest rhododendron collection.
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Wakehurst
Wakehurst — house and botanic gardens in Ardingly, West Sussex, England, UK.
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The Eden Project
Cornish biomes housing the world's largest covered rainforest.
★ Iconic📷 10Gardens · South West England
Lost Gardens of Heligan
Cornwall's WWI-abandoned-then-restored garden — the Mud Maid, the Jungle, the Productive Gardens.
★ Iconic📷 10Botanic gardens · London
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The world's most celebrated botanic garden — UNESCO, 50,000 plants, 1759.
★ Iconic📷 3Botanic gardens · Central Scotland
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Founded 1670, Edinburgh's 70-acre garden — world's largest rhododendron collection.
★ Iconic📷 10Botanic gardens · South East England
University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Britain's oldest botanic garden, founded 1621 — Tolkien, Pullman, Carroll all wrote about it.
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Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Cambridge's 40-acre teaching botanic garden — taxonomic beds, Henslow's 1846 founding.
Flagship📷 10Botanic gardens · South East England
Wakehurst
Kew's 535-acre Sussex sister garden — home of the Millennium Seed Bank.