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Whistling Gardens

We cordially invite you to join us here at Whistling Gardens, one of Ontario’s premier horticultural gardens. Since 2012, we have garnered regional, provincial, national, and international awards and are home to North America’s largest peony collection, North America’s largest conifer collection, and one of Canada’s largest computer-run fountain shows. Stroll and explore over 20 acres of gardens displaying over 4,500 different plants, including the rarest tree in the world, the Baishan Fir.

Flower Forest Botanical Garden

Our Flower Forest will delight your senses with its dazzling tropical colours, fragrant flowers, and chirping birds. Our 53 acres bloom all year, creating a true botanical paradise. Stroll along the walkways lined with botanical collections, pausing to take in the breathtaking views of the surrounding countryside and the distant eastern coastline.

Cuba National Botanical Garden

The National Botanic Garden of Cuba features 150,000 plant specimens and over 4,000 different kinds of Cuban and international plants on over 600 hectares. We recommend the cactus pavilion, tropical rain forest, the Buganville and Orchids exposition, palm tree collection, and Japanese garden, all tastefully designed with little water falls and fountains.

Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Gardens

The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden is a unique 127-acre botanical garden and historical site located in what was once the heart of historic Rancho Santa Anita. A stroll through a variety of gardens and landscapes that offer beauty and tranquility, as well as ideas for your outdoor space at home.

Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens

Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, a garden for all seasons, provides guests a chance to reconnect with nature. Visitors are welcomed to 110 acres of spectacular gardens, including a children’s garden, a conservatory dedicated to the display of tropical plants and orchids, the Dry Piedmont Prairie, annual and perennial displays, sparkling fountains, walking trails, and more.

Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens

As a nonprofit botanical garden, our mission is to engage and enrich lives by displaying and conserving plants in harmony with our Northern California coastal ecosystems and to preserve public access to the coast.

Nassau Botanical Garden

Opened at the time of The Bahamas’ Independence on July 10, 1973, the Nassau Botanical Gardens provide a tranquil retreat for nature-loving residents and visitors. It features 18 acres of tropical flora covering over 600 species, including the Bahamas national flower, the Yellow Elder. Once known as the pit, these gardens were an old rock quarry supplying stones for roadways and the building of Fort Charlotte. The idea for the gardens was conceived in 1951 by Mr. Oris Russell of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Andromeda Botanic Gardens

8 acres of cultivated gardens with over 500 plant species – the oldest Barbadian garden and the largest garden in Barbados, both in terms of acreage and number of plant species. Amazing trees, beautiful individual but connected gardens, outstanding biodiversity including monarch butterflies – all in this organic, historic, botanical landscape. Visiting Andromeda is a truly authentic Barbados experience.

Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park

Enjoy a leisurely walk-through colorful garden; sit down near the lake and relax in the natural display which is the home of the endangered Grand Cayman Blue Iguana. The two-acre lake also serves as a habitat and breeding ground for native birds and other rare aquatic birds and animals native to the Caribbean. The Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park includes seven main attractions – the Visitor’s Centre, the Floral Garden, Orchid Boardwalk, Xerophytic Garden, Heritage Garden, Woodland Trail, and the Children’s Garden (under development).

Jardin de Balata

All paradises are gardens and it is no coincidence that during the visit to the Garden of Balata, the magic of the place gives visitors amazing feelings. It was in 1982 that Jean-Philippe Thoze, horticulturist, landscaper and artist at heart, retraced the steps of his childhood in the Creole house of his grandparents. From there, will be born a passion for botany which will take him to the four corners of the world. The garden, organized around the family home with typical Creole architecture, is the result of a perfect alchemy between a return to basics and an atypical artist.

Jardin botanique national Dr R.F. Moscoso

Dr. Rafael Ma. Moscoso National Botanical Garden is a botanical garden in the heart of Santo Domingo. The park was founded in 1976 and is named after Rafael Maria Moscoso, a Dominican botanist who cataloged the flora of the island of Hispaniola. There are so many attractions that surround this place with beauty that if you frequent it, it can become your fixed center of healthy fun and the ideal place to come as a family breathing fresh air through all the bushes that surround this beautiful park.

El Charco del Ingenio Botanical Garden

Located a few minutes from San Miguel de Allende, El Charco del Ingenio is an extraordinary Botanical Garden and Nature Reserve. It has an extensive collection of cacti and other succulent plants from Mexico, many of them rare, threatened or in danger of extinction.

Haraveri Botanical Garden

It is an in situ botanical garden; it develops at 11 hectares (27 acres). It´s one of the two botanical gardens in Mexico that protects the cloud forest.

It has 286 species of flora distributed in 86 families, 19 species are under protection according to NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2019, 30 species in the IUCN Red List and 22 species in CITES. In addition, 63% species has ethnobotanical uses.

Devon House

The Devon House mansion is a beautiful blend of Caribbean and Georgian architecture, furnished with an expertly curated collection of Jamaican, English and French antique pieces and reproductions. The Mansion overlooks a vast expanse of perfectly manicured and lush, green lawns. Stiebel’s legacy lives on with the beautifully maintained Devon House, which was declared a national monument in 1990 by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust.

Castleton Garden

Castleton Gardens is located approximately 20 minutes from Kingston and is anchored on a landscape dominated by ravines and tall mountain ranges. This lush, unbelievably beautiful garden is located on 15 acres and is bordered by the main road on one side and a river on the other. The flora includes the most exotic, often indigenous ferns and majestic palms. Annual rainfall here is 45 inches! The picnic areas are sheltered by some of the island’s most elegant trees. This is truly a nature-lovers paradise.

Botanical Garden of Saint-Vincent and the Grenadines

SVG boasts a diverse collection of biological resources. St. Vincent is rugged and mountainous with steep slopes and fertile yellow earth, volcanic ash and alluvial soils. The country has about 12,700 ha of tropical forests, including primary and secondary rainforest, palm brakes, elfin woodland, littoral woodland, dry scrub woodlands and mangrove forest. The significant tropical forests provide natural habitat for wildlife including the St. Vincent parrot and other endemic species. The Grenadines, in contrast, consists of low dry islands surrounded by extensive coral reefs and seagrass beds.

University of Puerto Rico Botanic Garden

Conceived as an educational center for scientific research and a sociocultural meeting place, it is a living laboratory for the study of tropical plants and the many species of birds that inhabit it. It is also a recreation and leisure area for its visitors. Its properties cover some 289 acres of land. It has a Herbarium that houses more than 36,000 specimens of stuffed plants. The Garden provides the public with knowledge on issues related to native flora and information on ecological issues for the preparation of school projects

Francisco Javier Clavijero Botanical Garden

The formation of INECOL arose around the interest in developing research on the use of natural resources, conservation and biodiversity in Mexico. In turn, this interest stemmed from the need to have basic studies and scientifically founded answers to solve ecological problems derived from the use of natural resources. This position has allowed us to gather an important accumulation of experiences and is still valid today. With this, it seeks to support with solid foundations the establishment of adequate policies and mechanisms to continue and promote the development of the country, avoiding as much as possible the affectation of the environment and the biological wealth of the ecosystems, which condition the quality of life and the well-being of the population.

FOREST THE COLOMOS

Bosque Los Colomos is an urban park northeast of the city of Guadalajara, capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco. The park is located on the limits of Guadalajara and Zapopan, forming one of the lungs of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area.

Oaxaca Ethnobotanical Garden

The Ethnobotanical Garden displays hundreds of plant species live, all of them native to Oaxaca. We started planting them in July 1998. The plants come from different regions of the State, both from arid and humid climates, from lowland tropics and temperate and cold mountainous areas. The Garden thus represents the great diversity of climates, geological formations and types of vegetation that characterize Oaxaca.

Edward James Sculpture Garden, Las Pozas

The Edward James Sculpture Garden, Las Pozas was created by Edward Frank Willis James, an eccentric British poet, artist and patron of the Surrealist movement. James created a fusion between the organic and the artificial, between the jungle and the concrete, which merges the two worlds into one. The total area of the Garden is 37 hectares dedicated to ecological conservation, of these 9 hectares make up the sculpture garden, where you can admire more than 28 structures and sculptures. In 2007 the Fundación Pedro y Elena Hernández, AC, acquired Las Pozas with the purpose of preserving the sculptures and conserving the ecosystem.

University of Mexico Botanical Garden

The National University, in its effort to contribute to the scientific knowledge of the biodiversity of Mexico and the world, as well as to fulfill its social responsibility, carries out research, teaching and extension of culture. For this reason, part of our commitments is to make society aware of the work we do and the collection we have, as well as the national collections that are under our protection. So that you know more, have fun and commit to caring for biodiversity, we invite you to visit our beautiful living museum that is the Botanical Garden and the great National Biodiversity Pavilion, which is a research site with an exhibition area with specimens , which has information and organizes activities for you.

Jardin botanique de Deshaies

In the heart of the Guadeloupe Islands, the Deshaies Botanical Garden provides a peaceful moment surrounded by magnificent Caribbean flora! This 7 hectare park offers a wide range of remarkable plants and trees. A journey for the senses, for everyone, and is one of the most beautiful gardens on the island.

US National Arboretum

Permanent reference collection of over 800,000 specimens of dried pressed plants for scientific studies in agriculture, horticulture, botany, medicine, and other related fields. Contains plants from around the world, with a special emphasis on cultivated plants. Especially well represented groups include azaleas, cherries , daffodils, daylilies, hollies, oaks, viburnums, and willows.

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