The Botanic Garden: The world's greatest botanical sanctuaries

by Ambra Edwards

Overview

This rich and beautiful guide from bestselling garden writer Ambra Edwards explores the most magnificent botanic havens from every continent across the world.

There has never been a better time to celebrate botanic gardens. From Brooklyn and San Francisco, to Colombia and Brazil; Oxford and Kew, to Cape Town and Mauritius; Norway and Germany, to Sydney and Thailand, discover surprising diversity, superb vistas and some of the most intriguing plants you can imagine.

As centres for research, conservation and education, these expansive collections are integral to our understanding of the true power of plants.

But they also hold some of the most beautiful species on earth – including ferns, trees, cacti, orchids and more – expertly cared for and presented as a feast for the senses, delighting thousands of visitors each year.

Ambra Edwards introduces the gardens, bringing them to life on the page, and uncovers their history, collections and scientific influence. This is a celebration of the wonder that is contained within the world’s greatest botanic gardens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780711282278
Publisher:	Frances Lincoln
Publication date:	08/27/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240

About the Author

Ambra Edwards is an award-winning writer and garden historian. She is the author of the National Trust’s definitive The Story of the English Garden, the acclaimed global history The Story of Gardening (with Penelope Hobhouse) and most recently The Plant Hunter’s Atlas, which tells the enthralling stories of plants and the people who found them. In 2017, her bestselling book Head Gardeners was named Book of the Year by the Garden Media Guild. Three times named Garden Journalist of the Year in Britain, her work also appears in Europe and Australia.

Table of Contents

Padua Botanical Garden

Hortus Botanicus Leiden

Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum

Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh

Berlin Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanic Garden

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

Singapore Botanic Gardens

Kebun Raya Cibodas

Missouri Botanical Garden

Hanbury Botanic Gardens

New York Botanical Garden

The Huntington Desert Garden

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

Weihenstephan Demonstration Garden

Nong Nooch Tropical Garden

Xischuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

Viera y Clavijo Botanic Garden

National Tropical Botanical Garden (Hawaii)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne

Belize Botanic Garden

Soller Botanic Garden

The Arctic-Alpine Botanic Garden

Nezahat Gokyiğit Botanic Garden

Ethnobotanical Garden of Oaxaca