Botanical and Orchid Gardens Around the World

While you’re busy cultivating the natural beauty in your home, you might enjoy seeing more of the many varieties of orchids available. Visiting botanical gardens are a great way to do it!

Wikipedia explains that botanical gardens are generally well-tended parks, often run by universities or other scientific research organizations displaying a wide range of plants labeled with their botanical names. Their principle role is to maintain documented collections of living plants for the purposes of scientific research, conservation, display and education. Visitor services often include garden tours, educational displays, art exhibitions, book rooms, open-air theatrical and musical performances and other entertainment.

They mention “specialized gardens like the Palmengarten in Frankfurt (1869), one of the world's leading orchid and succulent plant collections, have been very popular”

On another website we found a few listed for their orchid collections:

In South Africa, the Durban Botanical Gardens feature Orchids, Bromeliads, Palms and Cycads as the main collections of the Gardens. Durban's hot humid climate is ideal for a number of these plants.

In Indonesia, the Bogar Botanical Garden was founded by Dutch colonizers near Jakarta. One of the oldest of its kind in Asia, their 80 hectares have more than 15,000 species of trees and plants, while the orchid houses contain some 3000 varieties. The garden is well known for the world’s largest orchid, Grammatophyllum speciousum.

In Sweden, the Göteborg Botanical Garden, is the biggest garden in the country with a 175 hectares (ca 430 acres) nature reserve and 16,000 different plant species. The garden includes an arboretum and a greenhouse with 4000 various plants, including some 1500 orchids.

The Orchid House has a list of links to botanical and orchid gardens around the world, from the U.S. to Australia, South America, Asia and the UK.