European botanical gardens

Botanical gardens in Europe

Botanical gardens in Europe cultivate documented living plant collections for science, education, and conservation; more than 900 exist today, beginning with university gardens in Renaissance Italy.

Botanical gardens in France

France holds 104 recorded botanical gardens, plus 10 in overseas territories, together holding about 300,000 living plant accessions; the oldest, at Montpellier, was founded in 1593 under Henri IV.

The botanical gardens of Romania are five major scientific and public collections of living plants, at Iași, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, and Jibou, four of them owned by universities and the oldest founded at Iași in 1856.

Botanical gardens in the Balkans

Botanical gardens in the Balkans are scientific and public collections of living plants maintained in the Balkan peninsula, including Belgrade's Jevremovac garden, operating since 1874.

Botanical gardens in the Nordic countries

Botanical gardens in the Nordic countries are the scientific plant collections of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, linked since 2024 by the Nordic Network of Botanic Gardens.

Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelu

Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelu (BZA), Brno-Ponava: botanical garden and arboretum of Mendel University, founded 1938 by August Bayer, 11 ha, five sections, 4000 orchid taxa, Iris and Barvy podzimu exhibitions.

Botanická zahrada Univerzity Karlovy

Botanická zahrada Univerzity Karlovy, the Botanical Garden of Charles University's Faculty of Science, founded 1775 at Smíchov, at Na Slupi 16, Prague 2 since 1898; 3.5 ha, free outdoor areas, paid tropical greenhouse.

Botanischer Garten der Universität Zürich

Botanischer Garten der Universität Zürich: the University of Zurich's botanical garden at Zollikerstrasse 107, opened 27 May 1977 on the Villa Schönau estate, with three acrylic geodesic greenhouse domes and roughly 7,000–8,000 plant species; free entry.

Brissago Islands

Brissago Islands (Isole di Brissago): two Swiss islands in Lake Maggiore, Ticino, forming the canton's botanical garden. Isola Grande holds about 1,700 subtropical species on 2.5 ha; founded 1885 by Baroness de Saint-Léger, opened to the public 1950.

Bucov (Ploieşti) Botanical Garden

Bucov (Ploieşti) Botanical Garden, Grădina Botanică Bucov, is a botanical garden in Bucov, Prahova County, Romania, opened in 2014 as a section of the Prahova County Museum of Natural Sciences, on about 15 ha with English, French, Italian, and alpine sections.

Budakeszi Arborétum

Budakeszi Arborétum, a Hungarian forest arboretum near Budakeszi, founded 1959 from 1949 Forestry Research Institute plantations; about 1,000 exotic conifer taxa, strictly protected since 1978, opened to the public in 2016, managed by Pilisi Parkerdő Zrt.

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.

Cherkassy National University Botanical Garden

Botanical garden of Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University in Cherkasy, Ukraine (Ботанічний сад ЧНУ); founded 1936 as an agrobiostation, the only botanical garden in Cherkasy Oblast, with 172 woody and about 300 herbaceous taxa on 4.57 ha.

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.

Dendrological Garden "Dzyadok"

Дэндралагічны сад «Дзядок» (Dendrological Garden "Dzyadok"), a 2-hectare garden in Hlybokaye District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus, recorded in OpenStreetMap and one of 19 mapped Belarusian gardens.

Dendropark Drykolle

Дэндрапарк «Дрыколле» (Дендропарк «Дреколье») is a 3-hectare arboretum near the village of Дреколье in Vitsebsk district, Belarus, allocated in 2016 between lakes Дрекольское and Боровское and planted by the Vitebsk forestry enterprise.

Diomedes Botanical Garden

The Diomedes Botanical Garden is the largest botanical garden in Greece, located in Chaidari on the western edge of Athens and holding over 2,500 plant species.

East Asian Department

East Asian Department (აღმოსავლეთ აზიის განყოფილება), the largest floristic section of the Batumi Botanical Garden, Georgia: 6.05 ha, 40% of the living collection, 1913 Japanese introductions, Tertiary relicts, and a Japanese garden.

Ecopark Varna

Ecopark Varna (Екопарк Варна), the University Botanical Garden of Sofia University in Varna, Bulgaria: founded 1977, opened 11 May 2002 as Bulgaria's first ecopark, 36 ha, 300+ exotic tree and shrub species, 250+ iris varieties, Roman-era archaeological finds.

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.

Enclos du Jardin des plantes médicinales Paul Moens - Tuin van Geneeskrachtige Planten Paul Moens

Enclos du Jardin des plantes médicinales Paul Moens (Tuin van Geneeskrachtige Planten Paul Moens), a didactic medicinal plant garden of 400 plots in 43 beds on the UCLouvain Woluwe campus in Brussels, founded 1975 by professor Paul Moens, Belgium's largest such collection.

Flower Theatre

Flower Theatre (Bloementheater, Théâtre des fleurs) is a display garden at Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium, a peony-centred garden opened from 2007 with 738 taxa; also the name of cinemas in Ottawa and Silver Spring, Maryland.

Former botanical garden

Former botanical garden (Bývalá botanická záhrada), Trnava, Slovakia: a 1967 Comenius University teaching garden, declassified after 1995, revitalized by MTF STU since 2006 and slated for public opening in 2025.

Fragrances and Colours Garden

Fragrances and Colours Garden (Geuren- en kleurentuin, Jardin des senteurs et des couleurs) is a fenced thematic garden at Plantentuin Meise, Belgium, opened 2020, growing plants used for perfumes and dyes, with a katsura scent tunnel smelling of fresh biscuits.

FTA - Botanical garden

Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Tropical Agri-Food Systems (Botanická zahrada FTZ), Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Suchdol; founded 1968, specializes in tropical and subtropical useful plants, holds three National Collections including citrus.

Goderdzi Alpine Botanical Garden

Goderdzi Alpine Botanical Garden (Goderdzis Alpuri Baghi), an alpine botanical garden of the Batumi Botanical Garden in Khulo Municipality, Adjara, Georgia, at 1,859-1,960 m near Goderdzi Pass; opened 2020, conserving Caucasian high-mountain flora with a rock garden and Jara beekeeping.