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Botanical Gardens

Empress Botanical Garden

This sprawling oasis of green in the middle of the city has a vast collection of beautiful flora.

Tokyo Metropolitan Medicinal Botanical Garden

Home to a garden of poisonous plants and the only legal cannabis and opium farms in Tokyo.

Naboutini, Fiji

Garden of the Sleeping Giant

This garden boasts a magnificent collection of orchids and a spectacular view of the surrounding valley.

Besh-Ba-Gowah Archaeological Park and Museum

The remains of a large pueblo village constructed by the Salado culture, who occupied the region more than 600 years ago.

Portland, Oregon

Leach Botanical Garden

A 17-acre urban oasis featuring a pollinator garden, heritage trees, and an aerial tree walk.

Hot Springs, Arkansas

Garvan Woodland Gardens

A beautiful botanical garden in the heart of the Natural State.

Christchurch, New Zealand

Flora and Otto

A mosaic armchair and ottoman built from china broken in the Christchurch earthquakes.

Can the famous greenhouse get greener?

botanical gardens

Kew Gardens Is Undergoing a Big, Steamy Change

Fitted PJs, new glasses, and a good drilling will keep this Victorian icon hot.

Daniel Shailer February 20, 2024

Wellington, New Zealand

Moko Tree

This 800-year-old Rimu tree may be the oldest of its kind in the world.

Wellington, New Zealand

Listening and Viewing Device

This kinetic sculpture focuses the sounds of the city when you stand inside.

Orto Botanico di Roma

An oasis of beauty, tranquility and botanical research in the middle of Rome.

Grijpskerke, Netherlands

Middellandse Zeetuin Uilenbroek

A family-run botanical garden with tropical plants, artsy sculptures, and eccentric buildings.

Glasgow, Scotland

Poetry Postbox

A ceramic postbox where visitors can post original poems and creative messages.

Arctic–Alpine Botanic Garden

Tromsø, Norway

Arctic–Alpine Botanic Garden

The world's northernmost botanic garden has 25 collections of plants from arctic and alpine regions.

Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands

Bonaire Botanical Garden

Part home garden, part sculpture field, part pseudo-science experiment, a trip to this place will leave you wondering if sea water isn't actually the elixir of life.

Boothbay, Maine

Guardians of the Seeds Trolls

Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

Detail of a plate illustration of medicinal plants published in the 1930s in a botanical reference book by Éditions Larousse.

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Addressing the Colonial Legacy of the World's Scientific Botanical Collections

Some 70 percent of specimens are located in developed countries with colonial histories. A new project seeks to make them more accessible.

Daniel Park August 14, 2023

Sweden's Oldest Olive Tree

A centuries-old olive tree thrives in a small botanical garden.