Partners: Gardens

  • National Botanical Garden Godawari

    The National Botanical Garden (NBG) was exquisitely designed by two British architects, Geoffrey Herklots and Tony Schilling. It is well-known as a center of plant conservation, education, research, display and recreation. It covers an area of 82 hectares with varying topography, 40 hectares of which have been transformed into various thematic gardens. It is surrounded by a natural evergreen forest with Schima-Castanospsis-Alnus as the dominant tree species. It is located at the base of Mt. Phulchowki (2765 m), the highest peak of the Kathmandu valley, and lies about 10 km southeast of Satdobato, Lalitpur District. A natural stream, Godawari, runs through the middle of the garden, adding to its beauty.

  • Perdana Botanic Garden

    The Perdana Botanical Garden has always been a part of the green lung of the city and has a history of over a decade. Originally created as part of a recreational park but planted with collections of tropical plants, the garden have been rehabilitated and turned into a Botanical Garden. The garden also houses features that give the visitors the ambiance of being in a tropical rainforest, despite being in the middle of a bustling metropolis.

  • Koishikawa Botanical Garden

    Koishikawa Botanical Garden is also one of Tokyo’s most pleasant and interesting places for cherry blossom viewing, because it does not get as crowded as other hanami spots and features cherry trees of various varieties. It is not to be confused with the similarly named Koishikawa Korakuen. This botanical garden is not only the oldest botanical garden in Japan, but also one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world.

  • Kyoto Botanical Garden

    Founded in 1924, Kyoto Botanical Gardens is the oldest and most comprehensive public botanical garden in Japan. With seasonal plants and various conservatories, the Gardens is ever-changing and can be enjoyed all year round. More than 450 cherry blossom trees bloom beautifully in spring and leaves of deciduous trees such as maple color exquisitely in autumn. At other times of the year, lush greenery and a wide variety of trees and flowers can be enjoyed. Kyoto Botanical Gardens is a living museum of plants that offers opportunities for both education and relaxation.

  • Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Garden

    The botanical garden has about 7,000 kinds of plants, and there is also a “greenhouse” designated as an important national cultural property, and a “gassho-zukuri house” relocated from Gifu Prefecture’s Shirakawa-go, which has become a World Heritage site. 
    In addition to popular animals such as koalas and giraffes, you can meet about 450 species of animals from large elephants to small killifish. This is the largest number of species in Japan, and you can see the unique ecology of a wide variety of animals.

  • Tokyo Jindai Botanical Garden

    In the garden where vestiges of Musashino remain, you can enjoy the beauty of plants and flowers throughout the four seasons. Currently, about 4,800 kinds and 100,000 trees/stocks have been planted. The garden is divided into 30 blocks for each type of plant, including a rose garden, azalea garden, plum garden, and hagi garden, so that visitors can acquire knowledge about plants while admiring the scenery.

  • Hiroshima Botanical Garden

    After passing through the front gate, visitors are greeted by seasonal flowers. You can enjoy tropical water lilies with beautiful flowers and a wide variety of species throughout the year. In addition, there is a carnivorous plant corner on the north side. The number of orchids, such as fragrant orchids and small orchids, is one of the largest in Japan! There are also orchids that can only be seen here, and much more.

  • Tirta Gangga Palace Aquatic Garden

    Tirta Gangga Water Palace is one of the most popular Bali Places. The gardens of Tirta Gangga Water Palace show a unique mix of Balinese and Chinese architecture. The grounds of the water garden (ca 1.2 ha.) consists of three separate complexes each with ponds and many sculptures. The complex on the lowest level has two large ponds and a water tower. At the second complex (middle level) of the Bali water palace are the swimming pools. The third level houses the main complex with the country home of the former Raja.

  • 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.