Planning a trip? Here are a few suggestions for garden visits – but it’s a big wide world out there so this is not a comprehensive list, just some ideas for gardens you may not be aware of.
AUSTRALIA
ACT:
Australian National Botanic Garden, Canberra.
New South Wales:
Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.
Blue Mountains Botanic Garden, Mt Tomah.
The Australian Botanic Garden, Mt Annah.
Northern Territory:
George Brown Darwin Botanic Garden
Queensland:
Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha.
Cairns Botanic Gardens.
Paronella Park Heritage Gardens.
Australian Butterfly Sanctuary, Kuranda.
Botanic Gardens, Townsville, including the Palmetum.
South Australia:
Adelaide Botanic Garden
The Australian Museum of Gardening at Carrick Hill.
Mt Lofty Botanic Garden
Wittunga Botanic Garden
Victoria:
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
Royal Botanic Gardens of Victoria, at Cranbourne.
Western Australia:
Perth Botanic Garden (2 sites)
PACIFIC
Fiji:
Garden of the Sleeping Giant, near Nadi. The former home and orchid garden of the late American actor Raymond Burr.
Hawaii:
National Tropical Botanical Garden (four sites on the islands, one in Miami).
Samoa:
Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, Apia, has a large garden too.
ASIA
Indonesia:
Kebun Raya Botanical Garden, Bali.
Malaysia:
Perdana Botanical Garden, Kuala Lumpur.
Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park.
Singapore:
Gardens by the Bay.
Singapore Botanic Gardens.
NORTH AMERICA
Canada:
Van Dusen Botanical Gardens, Vancouver, BC.
Butchart Gardens, Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC.
United States:
San Francisco Botanical Gardens, California.
Central Garden, the Getty Centre, Los Angeles.
A list of Los Angeles area gardens.
International Rose Test Garden, Portland, Oregon.
International Waterlily Collection, San Angelo, Texas.
