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Chelsea Physic Garden
Chelsea Physic Garden, London's oldest botanic garden (founded 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries), is a four-acre walled garden at 66 Royal Hospital Road holding around 4,000 medicinal, edible and useful plants, run as a charity since 1983.
Cruickshank Botanic Garden
Cruickshank Botanic Garden, Aberdeen: an 11-acre (4.5 ha) free university botanic garden founded in 1898 by Anne Cruickshank, holding over 2,500 labelled plants with arboretum, sunken garden, rose garden, and herbaceous border.
Eden Project
The Eden Project is an educational charity and visitor attraction at Bodelva, Cornwall, opened 17 March 2001 in a disused china clay pit, with Rainforest and Mediterranean Biomes designed by Nicholas Grimshaw, 25 million-plus visitors, £6.8 billion regional economic impact, and new Edens in Qingdao and Morecambe.
Inverewe Garden
Inverewe Garden, a 21-hectare historic botanical garden at Poolewe, Wester Ross, Scotland, created from 1862 by Osgood Mackenzie; Gulf Stream microclimate, rhododendrons, Wollemi pines, National Trust for Scotland since 1952.
Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) is a UNESCO World Heritage botanic garden in southwest London, founded in 1759, holding over 50,000 living plants, a seven-million-specimen Herbarium, and the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst.
National Botanic Garden of Wales
Botanic garden at Middleton Hall, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire, Wales; opened 24 May 2000; 568 acres; over 5,000 plant taxa; home to the world's largest single-span glasshouse.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), founded 1670 as a physic garden by Balfour and Sibbald, is a Scottish scientific institution and botanic garden with four gardens, 13,500 species, a 3-million-specimen herbarium, and the Edinburgh Biomes restoration.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Kew Gardens) is a London botanic garden and plant science institution founded in 1759 by Princess Augusta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003, with over 50,000 living plants and the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst.
University of Oxford Botanic Garden
University of Oxford Botanic Garden, founded 1621 by Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby, is the UK's oldest botanic garden, a physic garden on the Cherwell with nearly 5,000 species, sister site Harcourt Arboretum, and Grade I registered status.