Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is a world-renowned scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation. The Garden offers educational courses and events for adults and children; and also trains specialists. RBGE has four Gardens, together known as the National Botanic Gardens of Scotland - Inverleith in Edinburgh, Benmore Botanic Garden in Argyll, Logan Botanic Garden in Galloway and Dawyck Botanic Garden in the Scottish Borders.

The Birmingham Botanical Gardens & Glasshouses, in the United Kingdom, are a 15 acre oasis of delight. Designed by J. C. Loudon, a leading garden planner, horticultural journalist and publisher, they opened to subscribers in 1832.Today, you will find beauty, peace and tranquility combined with excellent visitor facilities for all the family. We look forward to welcoming you into our gardens and glasshouses where you can enjoy nature at its best and discover the importance of plants to people.

University of Oxford Botanic Garden. We are often asked how a botanic garden differs from other types of gardens. Botanic gardens are collections of plants that are grown for purposes other than purely aesthetic reasons ­ but in Oxford Botanic Garden we do try to arrange the plants in attractive, sympathetic and exciting ways. Many gardeners come here to seek inspiration. In the beds and borders you may find new plants that would be perfect in your garden at home and partly for this reason we strive to label clearly every plant in the Garden.Plants are grown in this Garden to support our teaching programmes, for research scientists in this University and elsewhere and as part of plant conservation projects.Furthermore this Garden is a national reference collection of 7,000 different types of plant, making it the most compact yet diverse collection of plants in the World ­ there is even more biological diversity here than there is in tropical rain forests and other biodiversity hotspots.The Garden consists of three sections. The Glasshouses contain plants that need protection from the extremes of the British weather. The area outside the Walled Garden contains classic garden features such as a Water Garden and Rock Garden as well as the innovative Black Border and Autumn Borders. Within the Walled Garden plants are grouped in a number of different ways such as by country of origin, botanic family or economic use

The Botanic Garden is situated less than a mile to the south of the City centre and only five minutes walk from the railway station. This tranquil 40 acre (16 hectares) garden offers year round interest to visitors. The Garden has a collection of over 10,000 labeled plant species in beautifully landscaped settings, including Rock Garden, Lake, Glasshouses, Winter Garden, Woodland Walk, and nine National Collections.

Sheffield Botanical Gardens is a 19 acre garden, first opened in 1836. Originally designed by Robert Marnock, in the Gardenesque style, the site contains the largest collection of listed buildings in a Sheffield garden and a number of other interesting features. The Gardens are also well known for their Grade II* listed curvilinear Glass Pavilions, some of the earliest ever built.