Botanic Gardens and Arboreta Websites

Among many other features, historic Roman, Medieval and Tudor gardens, a herb garden, the National Bonsai Collection, collections of tropical and desert plants, and an Education Centre. Includes a diary of events.

Information and pictures covering glasshouse and outdoor plant collections, art in the garden, walks, a virtual plant gallery, and visitor access and facilities.

The oldest botanic garden in Britain, includes glasshouses, a walled garden, and an arboretum.

Collections of British Native Plants, and Trees. Other gardens include Scented, Woodland, Winter, Rock and Genetic. Glasshouses house the tropical, desert and alpine collections. Education and events programme.

Part of the University of Liverpool. Virtual tour, history, general information, and list of events.

Gardens commenced in 1970 on the Isle of Wight with a variety of temperate, sub-tropical and exotic plants, shrubs and trees; provides information about the gardens and their maintenance.

Focus on progress in restoring the botanical and horticultural collections, the landscape and the buildings. Also covers the history of the gardens, their two national collections, plant of the month, visitor access, and includes a virtual tour.

A collection of conifers in Kent. Started as a joint project with Kew Gardens. Includes news, events and tour listing, and educational programme.

Arboretum and gardens in Kington, Herefordshire. Information on the history and the different parts of the garden, planted and worked by three generations of the same family.

Overview of the gardens, collections, conservation and research activities of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Information on tours, trails and the education programme.

Charitable organisation set up to further interest in the life and work of plantsman E A Bowles and the conservation of his garden at Myddelton House, Enfield, UK.

Housed on a working farm near Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Information on the trees, the farm, and walks. Details for visitors.

This West Sussex garden is a satellite of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, housing the Millennium Seed Bank, and the national collection of birch trees; offers a range of trails and tours, and a guide to seasonal attractions.

Sussex botanic garden and park with a very diverse and large collection of trees and shrubs. Pictures; information on visitor facilities and access.

Information on the collections at this Arboretum in Gloucestershire. Details of the history, conservation activities, and for visitors.

Details of the collection, including rare trees, champion trees, and visitor facilities at this national arboretum. Westonbirt, Gloucestershire.

Collection of almost 1,500 trees and shrubs from across the world. Three national plant collections are held in the arboretum (lime, walnut and ash). Also houses the Falconry of Thorp Perrow. Events calendar.

Twelve glasshouses, with an important collection of tree ferns from Australia and New Zealand. Free admission.

Collections of plants native to the UK, and collections representative of the world. Information on the garden tour, education, events, and for visitors.

In the Tyne Valley, this garden has over 500 medicinal plants on display. Information about garden, and courses run there.

In Norfolk, UK, a private garden open to the public on selected days, featuring over 1000 named varieties of trees.. Information about the garden, its collections, and plants and other items for sale.

Located in Essex and featuring woodland walks, footpaths and a visitor centre offering a tea room, gift shop, plant centre and picnic area.

Visitor information and details of the collections at the four RHS gardens in the UK.

Collection of 4,500 species just outside Bristol from across the world, in beds and glasshouses; includes a collection conserving threatened plants native to SW England, and collections of plants used in alternative medicine.

Kew at Castle Howard (North Yorkshire) is an arboretum set in the Howardian Hills containing many rare and endangered trees and shrubs.

Brief details of the gardens, arboretum, and their education programme.

A living tribute to the war-time generations of the twentieth century in Staffordshire. Includes information on events and visitor facilities.

Garden history, events, virtual tour, entry, features and facilities.

Part of Conoco Natural History Centre, which supports teaching and study of botany in Aberdeen University, and is also open to the public. Collection of 2,500 plants recently catalogued.

35-acre garden, part of the Crown Estate. History of the garden and its development, events listing, and seasonal highlights in photographs. Details of admission and facilities.

One of the earliest examples of a curvilinear and cast iron glasshouse, built for Belfast Botanical and Horticultural Society in the 1830s.

Diverse collection of hardy trees and shrubs from around the world, started by the late Sir Harold Hillier in 1953 and now covering 180 acres, in Romsey, Hampshire. Open to the Public.

Royal Horticultural Society Gardens outside Harrogate, N Yorkshire. National collections of rhubarb, ferns, fuchsia and heathers. Education programme, and special interest groups. Plant trials of benefit to gardeners in the North of England.

Describes the Botanic Gardens, and information about access and events.

Unique tropical greenhouse and outdoor gardens visitor centre and coffee shop.

Opened in May 2000, in Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire. The project includes the Great Glasshouse, restoring 18th century formal gardens, woodland, species-rich grassland, and developing a demonstration organic farm.