Botanical Gardens to Visit Around the World

1.Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

London, England

The world's most famous botanical institution and a UNESCO site, with 50,000+ plant species, the Victorian Palm House and Temperate House, and globally pivotal conservation science.

2.Singapore Botanic Gardens

Singapore

The only tropical botanic garden inscribed by UNESCO, founded 1859, with the dazzling National Orchid Garden holding over 1,000 species and 2,000 hybrids in the heart of the city.

3.New York Botanical Garden

Bronx, New York

A 250-acre National Historic Landmark with over a million plants, old-growth forest, and the landmark Enid Haupt Conservatory, anchoring American botanical science and exhibitions.

4.Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

Cape Town, South Africa

Set against Table Mountain, this 1913 garden showcases South Africa's astonishing fynbos and Cape flora, widely rated among the planet's most beautiful botanical settings.

5.Longwood Gardens

Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Du Pont's grand horticultural estate with spectacular fountains, conservatories, and meticulous displays, repeatedly named the best botanical garden in the United States.

6.Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Melbourne, Australia

One of the world's great heritage gardens, 94 acres beside the Yarra River with 8,500 species, lakes, and ornithology, a benchmark of Southern Hemisphere horticulture.

7.Gardens by the Bay

Singapore

A 21st-century icon of futuristic horticulture, with towering Supertrees, the Cloud Forest, and Flower Dome conservatories drawing millions to its waterfront spectacle.

8.Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Edinburgh, Scotland

Founded 1670, a world-leading research garden famed for its rock garden, Chinese hillside, and Victorian glasshouses, holding one of the richest living plant collections anywhere.

9.Missouri Botanical Garden

St. Louis, Missouri

America's oldest botanical garden in continuous operation (1859), a global research powerhouse with the geodesic Climatron and a celebrated Japanese garden.

10.Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney

Sydney, Australia

A spectacular harbourside garden beside the Opera House, founded 1816, blending world-class collections with one of the most photographed settings on Earth.

11.Orto Botanico di Padova

Padua, Italy

The world's oldest academic botanical garden still in its original 1545 location, a UNESCO site honored as the origin of all botanical gardens worldwide.

12.Jardin des Plantes

Paris, France

France's main botanical garden, founded 1626, the historic heart of European plant science alongside the Natural History Museum and its grand glasshouses.

13.Claude Monet's Garden at Giverny

Giverny, France

The water-lily garden that inspired Impressionism, drawing half a million visitors yearly to the most famous artist's garden in the world.

14.Bogor Botanical Gardens

Bogor, Indonesia

A historic 1817 tropical garden of over 13,000 trees and 3,000+ species, ranked among the world's top ten and central to Southeast Asian botany.

15.Chicago Botanic Garden

Glencoe, Illinois

A 385-acre garden across 27 islands with 2.7 million plants, a leading conservation and research center and one of America's most-visited gardens.

16.Keukenhof

Lisse, Netherlands

The 'Garden of Europe,' planting seven million bulbs each spring for an eight-week tulip spectacle that is the world's most famous flower display.

17.Huntington Botanical Gardens

San Marino, California

Twelve themed gardens including a renowned desert garden and classical Chinese and Japanese gardens, set within a world-class art and research estate.

18.Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Miami, Florida

America's premier tropical botanical garden, renowned for palms, cycads, and rare tropical flora, and a leading center for tropical plant conservation.

19.Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden

Pattaya, Thailand

Southeast Asia's largest garden at 500 acres, consistently ranked among the world's most beautiful for its lavish themed landscapes and world-class cycad collection.

20.Royal Botanic Gardens Peradeniya

Kandy, Sri Lanka

A magnificent 147-acre garden with 4,000+ species and a legendary orchid house, one of Asia's grandest, drawing some two million visitors annually.

21.Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden

Howrah, India

Founded 1787, home to the Great Banyan Tree spanning 14,500 square meters, and one of the world's most significant historic tropical plant collections.

22.Botanical Garden of São Paulo

São Paulo, Brazil

A major Atlantic Forest garden and research institute preserving remnant native rainforest, springs, and orchid collections within Brazil's largest city.

23.Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Founded 1808, famed for its towering avenue of royal palms, giant Amazon water lilies, and lush setting beneath Christ the Redeemer.

24.Villa d'Este

Tivoli, Italy

A UNESCO Renaissance masterpiece of more than 500 fountains and water features, the most inventive water garden ever created and a model for Europe.

25.Generalife Gardens (Alhambra)

Granada, Spain

The finest surviving Moorish garden, a 13th-century Islamic paradise of water channels, fountains, and cypress within the UNESCO Alhambra complex.

26.Berlin Botanical Garden

Berlin, Germany

One of the world's largest and most species-rich gardens, 43 hectares with 20,000 species and the immense Great Pavilion tropical glasshouse.

27.Hortus Botanicus Leiden

Leiden, Netherlands

Founded 1590, the Netherlands' oldest botanical garden where Clusius first cultivated tulips in Europe, a cradle of Western botanical science.

28.Atlanta Botanical Garden

Atlanta, Georgia

A celebrated 30-acre garden famed for its orchid center, canopy walk, and blockbuster sculpture and light exhibitions in the heart of Midtown.

29.Denver Botanic Gardens

Denver, Colorado

A 24-acre garden internationally recognized for its steppe and alpine collections, Japanese garden, and innovative water-smart horticulture.

30.Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Brooklyn, New York

A beloved 52-acre garden famed for its cherry esplanade, Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, and one of America's finest bonsai collections.

31.Butchart Gardens

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

A National Historic Site transformed from a quarry into 55 acres of dazzling year-round blooms, drawing nearly a million visitors annually.

32.Wakehurst

Haywards Heath, United Kingdom

Kew's 'wild botanic garden' in Sussex, home to the Millennium Seed Bank, the world's largest wild-plant seed conservation project, plus stunning woodland.

33.Eden Project

Cornwall, United Kingdom

Giant biomes housing the world's largest indoor rainforest, built in a former clay pit, an icon of botanical architecture and sustainability.

34.Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden

Dallas, Texas

A 66-acre lakeside garden renowned for seasonal floral festivals and its acclaimed Rory Meyers Children's Adventure Garden, among America's most visited.

35.Desert Botanical Garden

Phoenix, Arizona

The world's premier desert garden, displaying 50,000 plants and one of the finest cactus and succulent collections anywhere in the Sonoran setting.

36.Meise Botanic Garden

Meise, Belgium

One of the world's largest gardens, 92 hectares with the vast Plant Palace glasshouse complex and a globally important herbarium and seed collection.

37.San Francisco Botanical Garden

San Francisco, California

A 55-acre garden in Golden Gate Park whose unique fog-cooled climate supports an exceptional cloud-forest and Mediterranean plant collection.

38.Munich Botanical Garden Nymphenburg

Munich, Germany

Among the world's most important gardens, cultivating 16,000+ species across 21 hectares with renowned alpine, arboretum, and tropical glasshouse displays.

39.Lost Gardens of Heligan

Cornwall, United Kingdom

A 200-acre Victorian estate famously lost to brambles and dramatically restored, now one of Britain's most romantic and celebrated gardens.

40.Schönbrunn Palace Gardens

Vienna, Austria

The imperial Habsburg gardens, a UNESCO site featuring grand Baroque parterres, the Gloriette, the world's oldest zoo, and a historic palm house.

41.VanDusen Botanical Garden

Vancouver, Canada

A 55-acre garden with 7,500 plant taxa, a famed Elizabethan hedge maze, and an award-winning sustainable visitor centre in a striking mountain city.

42.Jardin Botanique de Montréal

Montreal, Canada

Among the world's greatest gardens, 75 hectares with renowned Chinese and Japanese gardens, vast greenhouses, and the celebrated Gardens of Light festival.

43.Powerscourt Gardens

Enniskerry, Ireland

Ranked by National Geographic among the world's top ten gardens, with sweeping Italianate terraces set against the dramatic Wicklow Mountains.

44.Sissinghurst Castle Garden

Cranbrook, United Kingdom

Vita Sackville-West's iconic garden rooms, including the legendary White Garden, the most influential and beloved English garden of the 20th century.

45.US Botanic Garden

Washington, D.C.

The nation's oldest continually operating botanic garden, anchored by a historic glass conservatory on the National Mall beside the Capitol.

46.Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Thailand's foremost botanic garden and research center, famed for its glasshouse complex and the Flying Draco canopy skywalk over rainforest.

47.Lalbagh Botanical Garden

Bangalore, India

A 240-acre 18th-century garden begun by Hyder Ali, home to a famous glass house and a renowned biannual flower show drawing huge crowds.

48.Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden

Tokyo, Japan

A 144-acre former imperial garden blending French formal, English landscape, and traditional Japanese styles, Tokyo's premier cherry-blossom destination.

49.Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

Grand Rapids, Michigan

A 158-acre garden and major sculpture park with a five-story tropical conservatory and world-class outdoor art, among America's most visited.

50.Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

Boston, Massachusetts

North America's oldest public arboretum, designed by Olmsted, a Harvard research jewel with 16,000 woody plants on 281 historic acres.

51.Royal Botanic Garden Madrid

Madrid, Spain

Founded 1755, an elegant historic garden in the heart of Madrid with 5,000+ species and one of Europe's most important botanical herbaria.

52.Bok Tower Gardens

Lake Wales, Florida

A National Historic Landmark designed by Olmsted Jr., crowned by a 205-foot singing carillon tower amid sublime contemplative landscape gardens.

53.Mainau Island Garden

Lake Constance, Germany

The 'Flower Island,' a 45-hectare lake island of spectacular seasonal displays, a vast butterfly house, and Mediterranean and arboretum collections.

54.Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Founded 1714 by Peter the Great and once the world's second largest after Kew, holding historic glasshouses and a renowned scientific herbarium.

55.Trauttmansdorff Castle Gardens

Merano, Italy

An award-winning Alpine amphitheater garden of 80 botanical worlds rising up a mountainside, repeatedly honored among Europe's most beautiful gardens.

56.Jardín Botánico de Medellín

Medellin, Colombia

A beloved 13-hectare garden with 1,000+ species and the striking Orquideorama wood canopy, centerpiece of Medellín's famous annual Flower Festival.

57.Koishikawa Botanical Garden

Tokyo, Japan

Japan's oldest botanical garden, founded 1684 and run by the University of Tokyo, a historic center of Japanese plant science and conservation.

58.Filoli Historic House & Garden

Woodside, California

A 16-acre English Renaissance estate garden of formal terraces and rose displays, a beloved National Trust property south of San Francisco.

59.Olbrich Botanical Gardens

Madison, Wisconsin

A 16-acre garden famed for its glittering gold-leafed Thai Pavilion and the Bolz Conservatory, among the Midwest's finest public gardens.

60.Chanticleer Garden

Wayne, Pennsylvania

A 35-acre 'pleasure garden' renowned worldwide for its artistry and inventive horticulture, often called America's most romantic and imaginative garden.

61.Australian National Botanic Gardens

Canberra, Australia

The nation's premier collection devoted entirely to native Australian flora, with 6,000+ species and the immersive Rainforest Gully.

62.Christchurch Botanic Gardens

Christchurch, New Zealand

A historic 21-hectare garden founded 1863 in a loop of the Avon River, celebrated for its rose garden, conservatories, and majestic exotic trees.

63.Beijing Botanical Garden

Beijing, China

China's flagship national botanical garden at the foot of the Western Hills, with vast collections, a grand conservatory, and a famed peony garden.

64.Shanghai Botanical Garden

Shanghai, China

One of China's largest municipal gardens, renowned for its penjing (bonsai) collection, peonies, and conservatories within a major world city.

65.Shenzhen Fairy Lake Botanical Garden

Shenzhen, China

A scenic lakeside garden famed for its fossilized-wood forest, palm collections, and the historic Hongfa Temple set among lush subtropical plantings.

66.Kyoto Botanical Garden

Kyoto, Japan

Japan's oldest public botanical garden (1924), with a large conservatory and renowned cherry and seasonal displays beneath the Kitayama mountains.

67.Jardín Botánico de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Carlos Thays' 1898 garden of 5,500 species across French, Roman, and Asian sections, a beloved green landmark in the heart of the city.

68.Jardín Botánico de Bogotá

Bogotá, Colombia

Colombia's largest botanical garden, specializing in high-Andean and páramo ecosystems with a striking tropical greenhouse and orchid collections.

69.Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

Richmond, Virginia

A 50-acre garden with a classical domed conservatory and acclaimed seasonal displays, frequently ranked among the best public gardens in America.

70.Chelsea Physic Garden

London, England

London's oldest botanic garden, founded 1673 to grow medicinal plants, a walled treasure preserving Britain's living history of botany and pharmacy.

71.RHS Garden Wisley

Wisley, Surrey, England

The Royal Horticultural Society's flagship, 240 acres of inspirational gardens, glasshouses, and trials and the most visited RHS garden in Britain.

72.Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

Sarasota, Florida

The world's leading garden for the scientific study and display of epiphytes, with renowned orchid and bromeliad collections beside Sarasota Bay.

73.Naples Botanical Garden

Naples, Florida

A 170-acre tropical garden recreating ecosystems from latitudes near the equator, repeatedly ranked among the best botanical gardens in the United States.

74.Palmengarten

Frankfurt, Germany

Germany's largest botanical garden, founded 1868, with grand historic glasshouses spanning tropical to subarctic climates in the heart of Frankfurt.

75.Sarah P. Duke Gardens

Durham, North Carolina

A 55-acre Duke University garden famed for its terraced Italianate gardens and Asiatic Arboretum, among the most-loved gardens in the American South.

76.Birmingham Botanical Gardens

Birmingham, Alabama

Alabama's 67.5-acre garden, home to the largest public clear-span glasshouse in the Southeast and one of the nation's finest Japanese gardens.

77.Callaway Gardens

Pine Mountain, Georgia

A 2,500-acre resort garden famed for its azalea displays, the Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center, and spectacular native woodland landscapes.

78.UC Berkeley Botanical Garden

Berkeley, California

A 34-acre research garden with 10,000 types of plants organized by geography, one of the most diverse university collections in the world.

79.Los Angeles County Arboretum

Arcadia, California

A 127-acre garden of global plant geographies with a historic Queen Anne cottage and famous resident peacocks, a Southern California landmark.

80.Cheekwood Estate & Gardens

Nashville, Tennessee

A 55-acre Georgian-style estate garden famed for its seasonal festivals, Japanese garden, and grand mansion overlooking the Tennessee hills.