European botanical gardens

Jardí Botànic Marimurtra (southern europe, r8287022)

Jardí Botànic Marimurtra, also Mar i Murtra, is a botanical garden in Blanes, Costa Brava, Catalonia, founded in 1921 by Carl Faust; record 235,395 visitors in 2025, centenary year, with palms, cacti and Mediterranean collections.

Jardí botànic Pinya de Rosa

Jardí botànic Pinya de Rosa (Jardí d'Aclimatació Pinya de Rosa) is a cactus and succulent garden in Blanes, Catalonia, Spain, created by Ferran Rivière and completed in 1952.

Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Granada

Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Granada: small historic university botanical garden in central Granada, Spain, founded 1850 under Mariano del Amo y Mora on the former Jesuit Colegio de San Pablo orchard; preserves a 14-bed Jussieu Escuela Botánica, a Ginkgo biloba of 1889, and about 150 species.

Jardin botanique Jean Massart - Botanische tuin Jean Massart

Jardin botanique Jean Massart (Botanische tuin Jean Massart), a 4.5-hectare ULB university botanical garden in Auderghem, Brussels, founded in 1922 by botanist Jean Massart, with about 2,000 plant species, Natura 2000 protection, and over 4,000 recorded arthropod species.

Jardin de la Retraite

Jardin de la Retraite (Garden of Retreat) is a 4,500 m² walled botanical garden in Quimper, Brittany, with three themed exotic gardens (subtropical, palm grove, dry), opened to the public in 1979 on the site of the Dames de la Retraite convent garden.

Jardin des plantes

The Jardin des plantes is a historic botanical garden in Paris's 5th arrondissement, founded in 1635 and serving as the heart of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.

Jardin Exotique

Jardin Exotique (Jardin Exotique de Monaco), a cliffside botanical garden of over 1,000 succulent species opened 13 February 1933 under Prince Louis II; distinct from the 1949 Jardin Exotique d'Èze; reopened 30 March 2026 after six years of works.

Jevremovac Botanical Garden

Jevremovac Botanical Garden (Botanička bašta "Jevremovac"), the University of Belgrade's botanical garden in Stari Grad, founded 1874, moved 1889 to King Milan Obrenović's donated estate; 4.82 ha, 1892 greenhouse, natural monument since 1995.

Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden

Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden (Kaisaniemen kasvitieteellinen puutarha), University of Helsinki botanic garden in central Helsinki since 1829, founded in Turku 1678, with 10 greenhouses, the 1889 Palm House, and Finland's national living plant collection.

Keukenhof

Keukenhof, the spring flower exhibition in Lisse, Netherlands, on the 32-hectare Zocher park of Keukenhof Estate; opened 1950, plants 7 million bulbs, draws 1.4 million visitors in eight weeks each spring.

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.

Kumpula Botanic Garden

Kumpula Botanic Garden (Kumpulan kasvitieteellinen puutarha) is a six-hectare Luomus garden in Helsinki on Kumpula Manor grounds, founded 1987, opened 2009, with cultivated-plant and geobotanical collections; closed until spring 2027.

La Concepcion Historical-Botanical Gardens

La Concepcion Historical-Botanical Gardens (Jardín Botánico-Histórico La Concepción), a subtropical garden in Málaga, Spain, created 1855 by the Marquises of Casa Loring, city-owned since 1990, with 50,000+ plants of 3,000+ species.

La Spirale à Aromates - De Kruidenspiraal

La Spirale à Aromates (De Kruidenspiraal) is a garden in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Brussels, named for a herb spiral: a spiral raised bed creating microclimates for aromatic plants.

Lilac Garden

The Lilac Garden (Georgian: იასამნების ბაღი), also known as the Syringarium, is a lilac collection in the National Botanical Garden of Georgia in Tbilisi, established in 1970.

Linnés Orangeriträdgård

Linnés Orangeriträdgård, Linnaeus's Orangery Garden at Möckelsnäs, Sweden, is a reconstruction of an 18th-century Linnaeus garden with an orangery, four themed plant quarters, and orange trees up to 200 years old.

Ljubljana Botanical Garden

The Ljubljana Botanical Garden (Botanični vrt Univerze v Ljubljani) is a botanical garden in Ljubljana, Slovenia, founded in 1810 under French rule and holding over 4,500 plant species.

Loki-Schmidt-Garten

Loki-Schmidt-Garten, formerly Neuer Botanischer Garten Klein Flottbek, is the 24-hectare botanical garden of the University of Hamburg, opened 1979, renamed 2012 for botanist Loki Schmidt, with about 500,000 annual visitors.

M. M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden (Національний ботанічний сад імені М. М. Гришка)

The M. M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden (Національний ботанічний сад імені М. М. Гришка) is a botanical garden and research institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, founded in 1935.

Madeira Botanical Garden Engineer Rui Vieira

Madeira Botanical Garden – Eng. Rui Vieira (Jardim Botânico da Madeira), public botanical garden in Funchal created 30 April 1960, named for first director Rui Manuel da Silva Vieira; 8 ha, over 2,000 exotic plants, endemic-species conservation.

Mata-Jardim José do Canto

Mata-Jardim José do Canto is a landscaped woodland garden on Lagoa das Furnas, São Miguel, Azores, created by José do Canto (1820–1898) with species acclimated at his Ponta Delgada garden; it includes the Ermida de Nossa Senhora das Vitórias.

Mediterranean Department

The Mediterranean Department is a section of the Batumi Botanical Garden in Adjara, Georgia, created in the 1930s to display plants native to the Mediterranean region.

Mediterranean Garden (Montenegro)

The Mediterranean Garden (Mediteranski vrt) is a volunteer-built aromatic-plant garden on Gorica Hill, Podgorica, Montenegro, opened in 2018 by the Association of Gorica and Nature Admirers, with about 1,000 mainly Mediterranean aromatic plants on a 3,000 m² site.

Mediterranean garden of Brijuni

Mediterranean Garden of Brijuni (Mediteranski vrt), a 17,000 m2 display garden on Veliki Brijun in Brijuni National Park, Croatia. Established 2007 on a former forest nursery, it holds about 170 autochthonous and exotic plant species labelled with QR codes.

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.

North-American Department

North-American Department of Batumi Botanical Garden, Georgia: a 7.8 ha phytogeographic section of North American plants, with four parts, 217 recorded species, and the Liriodendron living bridge.

Orto Botanico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari

The Orto Botanico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari, formally the Hortus Botanicus Karalitanus, is a botanical garden founded by the University of Cagliari in Cagliari, Sardinia, in 1866.

Orto dei Semplici Elbano

Orto dei Semplici Elbano: botanical garden of about one hectare at the Eremo di Santa Caterina, Rio nell'Elba, Elba; founded 1992 by Corsi, Garbari and Berger, opened 1997; conserves Tuscan Archipelago medicinal and endemic plants.

Orto e Museo Botanico di Pisa

Orto e Museo Botanico di Pisa (Botanic Garden and Museum of the University of Pisa), founded 1543-44 by Luca Ghini under Cosimo I de' Medici; the world's oldest university botanic garden, moved twice, now about two hectares with 3,000 plants and a 350,000-specimen herbarium.