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Shalimar Gardens

Shalimar Bagh is a Mughal garden in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, linked through a channel to the northeast of Dal Lake. It is also known as Shalimar Gardens, Farah Baksh, and Faiz Baksh. The other famous shoreline garden in the vicinity is Nishat Bagh, ‘The Garden of Delight’. The Bagh was built by Mughal Emperor Jahangir in 1619. The Bagh is considered the high point of Mughal horticulture. It is now a public park and also referred to as the “Crown of Srinagar”.

Rashtrapati Bhavan

Rashtrapati Bhavan, home to the President of the world’s largest democracy, epitomizes India’s strength, its democratic traditions and secular character. Rashtrapati Bhavan was the creation of architects of exceptional imagination and masterfulness, Sir Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker. It was Sir Lutyens who conceptualized the H shaped building, covering an area of 5 acres on a…

Taj Mahal Gardens

The concept of the paradise garden was one the Mughals brought from Persian Timurid gardens. It was the first architectural expression they made in the Indian sub-continent, fulfilling diverse functions with strong symbolic meanings. Known as the charbagh, in its ideal form it was laid out as a square sub divided into four equal parts. The symbolism of the garden and its divisions are noted in mystic Islamic texts which describe paradise as a garden filled with abundant trees flowers and plants.

Achariya Jagadish Chandra Bose

The best-known landmark of the garden is The Great Banyan, an enormous banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) that is reckoned to be the largest tree in the world, at more than 330 metres in circumference. It partially inspired the novel Hothouse by Brian Aldiss.[12] The gardens are also famous for their enormous collections of orchids, bamboos, palms, and plants of the screw pine genus (Pandanus).
Animals seen inside the Botanic Garden include the Jackal (Canis aureus), Indian mongoose and the Indian Fox (Vulpes bengalensis). Many species of snake are also to be found in the garden.

University of Zurich Botanic Garden

Demonstrating, promoting and strengthening relationships between plants and people is a central task of a botanic garden in the 21st century. The vision of our Botanic Garden is to be a leading teaching and learning site for plant diversity in Switzerland and to make a socially relevant contribution to the topics of plants-environment-human-health.

Conservatory and Botanical Garden of Geneva

At the CJBG, we cultivate plant diversity. A true museum, the Botanical Garden houses magnificent collections of living plants grown organically since 2015. It is the ideal place to relax, to walk and to discover our plant heritage.

Wroclaw Botanic Garden

Welcome to the website of the Botanical Garden of the University of Wrocław! The Botanical Garden is an oasis of beauty and peace in the heart of Wrocław.

It is the second (after the Krakow Garden) oldest garden in Poland, entered on the list of monuments of the province. Dolnośląskie Voivodeship
and located within the boundaries of the historical center of Wrocław, which is subject to special protection.
We invite you to visit our Garden!

Krakow Botanic Garden

The Botanical Garden of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, founded in 1783, is currently the oldest in Poland. For over two hundred years, it has played a major role in the development of science, education and culture as a place of research, artistic inspiration and a “living museum” of the world’s flora, visited by thousands of people every year.

Belmonte Arboretum

A garden is so much more than a collection of plants, trees, lawns and paths. All sorts of things happen in, on and under these parts. The birds, insects and butterflies, small mammals above the ground, and below the surface a rich soil life, larger and smaller. We always try to find a balance between the interests of the collection and nature, to do justice to all these ‘inhabitants’ of our garden.

University of Uppsala Botanic Garden

Welcome to one of the most popular sights in Uppsala, with a magnificent baroque garden, a 200 years old orangery and the only rainforest in Uppsala!

During the spring, lawns and fields are filled with flowering bulbs and sedges. Magnolias, cherries and tulips are blooming. The flowering then continues throughout the summer. Towards late summer, the kitchen plant country is at its most beautiful, and in autumn both native and exotic trees and shrubs offer a splendor of colour.

Leiden University Botanic Garden

The Hortus botanicus Leiden is the oldest botanical garden in the Netherlands. Built in 1590 and expanded in the following centuries, the Hortus is the green heart of Leiden. Here Carolus Clusius grew the first large collections of tulips in Europe, and Philipp Franz von Siebold introduced about 700 hitherto unknown plants from Japan and China. Visitors can go here for a relaxing walk; researchers from all over the world come here to conduct research into the renowned collection of the Hortus.

Amsterdam Botanic Garden

The Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is one of the oldest botanic gardens in the world. Today, there are more than 4,000 plant species growing in the garden and greenhouses. The Hortus is located in the Plantage district in the hectic center of Amsterdam. Behind the 300-year-old gates, however, the bustle of the city seems to disappear.

Helsinki University Botanic Garden

The outdoor garden, covering approximately four hectares, attracts the visitor to experience the world of plants. In summertime, perhaps the most attractive part of the grounds is the central garden, an open area with ponds and flowers, bordered by the glasshouses and rose bushes. A historic stone building envisioned as the king’s castle now houses a herbarium in the middle of the garden.

Botanic Garden of University of Copenhagen

The Garden holds the largest collections of living plants in Denmark. The Herbarium houses the largest collection of preserved plants in Denmark. In addition it has a spirit collection, a wood collection, an economic botany collection and a seed bank.

Powerscourt Estate

Step inside and explore the magnificent 47 acre gardens, voted 3rd best garden in the World and only 35 minutes from Dublin. Marvel at the sublime blend of formal gardens, sweeping terraces, statues and ornamental lakes, secret hollows and rambling walks.

Dublin Garden Trail

The Dublin Garden Trail (DGT) consists of Ireland’s most distinguished private gardens in the greater Dublin area. Some of them are world famous, and others are secret gems whose discovery has been the highlight of many a garden tour.

Gardens in the Dublin Garden Trail range in size from small to very large, with locations from coastal hillside to urban settings. Different styles include 18th century houses with ornamental gardens, modern gardens in ancient landscapes, exciting contemporary country gardens, and floristry inspired gardens, with many of the owners making great efforts to improve the sustainability of their gardens.

Buenos Aires Botanical Garden

The most diverse plant species grow and reproduce in one of the most important gardens in Buenos Aires. It preserves an important living collection of tree specimens with approximately 5 hectares dedicated to Argentine flora and some 2 hectares with species from the temperate forests of the five continents.

It was declared a National Monument for its cultural and natural character in 1996 and represents a natural reservoir of enormous importance due to its fully urban location. Its work teams develop teacher training tasks, applied research on flora, environmental management and, specifically, biodiversity conservation. Among the plant specimens that make up its living collections, there are some that are unique in the city and, in certain cases, unique in the country.

Quindio Botanical Garden

The Quindío Botanical Garden is a non-governmental organization, created in 1979 as a non-profit foundation, under the leadership of Alberto Gómez Mejía, with the participation of members of the Oikos Organization, the University of Quindío and the Gardening Club of Armenia. . It is structured with three main objectives: ecological conservation, scientific research and environmental education. It is also a recognized center of nature tourism, in which we strive to preserve the beauty of the different landscapes. As a botanical garden we have several collections and exhibitions of plants.

Mapulemu Botanical Garden

The conservation programs carried out by the National Zoo contribute to: public education in matters of biodiversity conservation, research and obtaining knowledge of animal biology applied to their care, management, welfare and conservation, as well as providing of a gene pool for wild populations. Through the ex situ or human care conservation strategy, extinctions of many species have been prevented globally, and successful reintroductions into the wild of animals rehabilitated or raised under human care have been made for a growing number of species. Also, the work with the associated local communities has played a fundamental role in each conservation program that the National Zoo of Chile has carried out.

Botanical Garden of the University of Talca

The Botanical Garden of the University of Talca is a natural laboratory that recreates the plant diversity of the Maule Region, Chile and the World, preserves ex situ rare and threatened plants, supports teaching activity and university research, and creates spaces for education and recreation for the community. It has 10 hectares of extension where plant formations from Chile and the world coexist and about 60 species of animals. Through its botanical species it is possible to travel across five continents, including the Mixed Mesophytic Forest of North America, the Deciduous Forest of Central Europe and the Sclerophyllous Forest of the Australian region.

Chile National Botanical Garden

The National Botanical Garden has developed an integrated conservation strategy , which includes in situ and ex situ conservation efforts, in order to contribute to the preservation of the biodiversity of the Chilean hotspot. Our conservation work is represented by the creation of 32 botanical collections of Chilean and exotic plants.

Jose Maria Azael Franco Municipal Cemetery

Unique in its category, this cemetery features eight hectares with carved cypress with Augustine, Pre-Colombian, Ecuadorian fauna, arches, pillars, and giant masks. This legacy began in 1936 and it is known as the “green sculpture” because here art and nature are combined.

Le Sitio Roberto Burle Marx

Located in Barra de Guaratiba, a neighborhood in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, the property where Burle Marx lived and produced in the last twenty years of his life was – and continues to be – a large experimentation laboratory: more than 3,500 species of tropical plants and subtropical, organized in nurseries and gardens, coexist in harmony with the native vegetation in an area of 405 thousand square meters, which includes several buildings, lakes, gardens, art collections and a vast library.

Botanical Garden of Curitiba

The Botanical Garden is one of the biggest postcards of Curitiba and the most visited tourist spot in the city. Its main attraction, the 458 m2 greenhouse, inspired by European architecture, houses natural and ornamental plant specimens of the flora of the Atlantic Forest, which covers the Serra do Mar and the coastal plain of Paraná. The construction of iron and 3,800 pieces of glass, in an open space, impresses the annual waves of tourists, from their arrival through the main gates.

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