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Palmetum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The Palmetum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a 12-hectare botanical garden in the Canary Islands specializing in palms, built on a former rubbish dump.
Parc de Saleccia
Parc de Saleccia, a 7-hectare landscaped botanical park near L'Île-Rousse, Corsica, with over 900 Mediterranean plant varieties, rebuilt after the 1974 fire, opened to the public in 2005.
Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden
Полярно-альпийский ботанический сад (PABSI, Avrorin Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute), founded 1931 in the Khibiny, Kirovsk, Murmansk Region; northernmost botanical garden in Russia at 67°38' N, one of three beyond the Arctic Circle, a RAS research institute since 1967.
Quinta do Lomelino - Natural Garden
Quinta do Lomelino - Natural Garden is a botanical garden in Feteira, Faial, Azores, with over 600 subtropical and tropical plants, grown from a decades-old palm and exotic tree plantation on the Horta-airport road.
Ramón Rubial lorategi botanikoa
Ramón Rubial lorategi botanikoa (Jardín Botánico Ramón Rubial) is a 60,000 m2 botanical garden in central Barakaldo, Bizkaia, designed by Ángel de Diego Rica, opened in 2002, with over 300 woody species, a Natur Gela visitor center, and a hedge maze.
Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid
Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid: Spain's royal botanical garden and CSIC research institute, founded 1755 by Fernando VI, moved to the Paseo del Prado in 1781, with over one million herbarium sheets and the Mutis expedition collections.
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.
Sežana Botanical Garden at Villa Mirasasso
Sežana Botanical Garden at Villa Mirasasso (Botanični vrt Sežana ob vili Mirasasso), a Slovenian botanical garden founded 1848 by the Greek Scaramangà family of Trieste, with ~170 species, an 1890 Schönbrunn-style greenhouse, and protected cultural-monument status.
The Acidophillic Beds
The Acidophillic Beds (Surbundsbedene) are acid-soil garden beds in the Aarhus Botanical Gardens, Denmark, planted for ericaceous plants such as rhododendron, saved by volunteers after a 2011 closure plan.
The Botanic Garden of Brera
The Botanic Garden of Brera (Orto Botanico di Brera) is a 0.5-hectare historic botanical garden behind Palazzo Brera in central Milan, founded 1774-1775 under Maria Theresa of Austria, run by the University of Milan, with medicinal plant beds, two elliptical ponds, and two 250-year-old Ginkgo biloba.
The Botanical Garden of the University of Turku
The Botanical Garden of the University of Turku (Turun yliopiston kasvitieteellinen puutarha), on Ruissalo island, Turku, Finland: founded 1924 at Iso-Heikkilä, moved to Ruissalo 1956; six greenhouses and a 23-hectare outdoor garden with over 5,000 plant taxa.
The garden of the senses
The garden of the senses (Aistien puutarha, Sinnenas trädgård) is a sensory garden name shared by the 2017 Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden sensory garden in Helsinki and Stockholm's therapeutic Sinnenas trädgård, designed for touch, smell, taste, and accessibility.
The lichen garden
The lichen garden (Jäkäläpuutarha, Lavträdgården) is a 2016 lichen display at Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden, Helsinki, built from salvaged lichens, stones, and benches; similar lichen gardens exist in Australia, Scotland, and India.
The Oslo Ridge
The Oslo Ridge (Osloryggen) is a themed conservation bed in the University Botanical Garden at Tøyen, Oslo, created in 2000 for the city's millennium, growing about 100 native inner-Oslofjord species including several threatened ones.
University Botanical Garden
The University Botanical Garden (Botanisk hage), Norway's oldest botanical garden, was established in 1814 at Tøyen in Oslo and is part of the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum.
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.
Uppsala University Botanical Garden
The Uppsala University Botanical Garden is Sweden's oldest botanical garden, founded in 1655, directed by Carl Linnaeus from 1741, and moved to its present 13-hectare site below Uppsala Castle in 1807.
Vasyl Stefanyk Botanical Garden
Vasyl Stefanyk Botanical Garden (Botanical Garden of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University), Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine; university scientific-research unit for plant study, preservation, and acclimatization; 54 insect species recorded in 2018.
Veterevichi Forestry Mini-Arboretum
Мінідэндрарый Вецярэвіцкага лясніцтва, the Veterevichi forestry mini-arboretum, is a free-access botanical mini-arboretum in Shatski selsoviet, Pukhavichy District, Minsk Region, Belarus, run by the local forestry service under Belarus's post-2011 forestry dendropark program.
Wilhelma
Wilhelma, the zoological-botanical garden of Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, is Germany's only combined zoo and botanical garden, founded as a Moorish-style royal park by King Wilhelm I, inaugurated 1846, a zoo since 1952, with 1,200 animal and 8,500 plant species.
Xardín Botánico de Lourizán
Xardín Botánico de Lourizán (Botanical Garden of Lourizán), a 52-hectare botanical garden and arboretum in Pontevedra, Galicia, founded 1949 within the Lourizán Forest Research Center, holding over 850 taxa and notable trees listed in the Catálogo Galego de Árbores Senlleiras.
Yerevan Botanical Garden
Yerevan Botanical Garden (Երևանի բուսաբանական այգի), Armenia's national botanical garden, founded 1935; 80 ha semi-desert site in northeastern Yerevan with about 5,000 species, a 1.5 ha Armenian flora plot, and the new Park of Life project.
Zagreb Botanical Garden
Zagreb Botanical Garden (Botanički vrt), University of Zagreb Faculty of Science garden founded 1889 by Antun Heinz; 4.7 ha, ~6,500 taxa, 1891 exhibition greenhouse, protected monument since 1971.