Garden Features
- Autumn colour garden
- Bed of British native plants
- Dry garden — demonstrates planting requiring reduced watering
- Fen display
- Genetics garden
- Glasshouses, containing about 3,000 species, have been restored and almost entirely replanted to display global plant diversity, and comprise:
- Continents Apart, comparing and contrasting the fire dependent, floristically rich plant communities of South Africa and SW Australia, once conjoined in the supercontinent Gondwana
- Oceanic Islands, exploring the floral diversity peculiar to island archipelagos
- Mountains, exploring how plants survive life in a cold climate
- Tropical Rainforests, a hotbed of competition
- Carnivores, displaying the diversity of traps in carnivorous plants
- Arid Lands, displaying drought tolerant plants from continental Africa and the Americas, including many Succulent and Cactus species, and demonstrating the phenomenon of convergent evolution.
- Life Before Flowers, full of ferns and filmy ferns.
- Herbaceous borders
- Lake
- National plant collections of:
- Alchemilla
- Bergenia
- European Fritillaria
- Lonicera
- Ribes
- Ruscus
- Saxifraga
- Species Tulips
- Hardy Geraniums
Important scientific and research collections of:
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- Lavender
- Rock gardens — for alpine plants
- Limestone rock garden
- Sandstone rock garden
- Scented garden
- Systematic beds — 144 island beds representing 80 families of flowering plants
- Tree collection
- Water garden
- Winter garden (December to April)
- Woodland garden — containing spring bulbs
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