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Botanic Gardens > Enabling People and Botanic Gardens
Enabling People and Botanic GardensBGCI’s greatest strength is its worldwide network of botanic gardens. They are centres of botanical expertise, horticultural knowledge and environmental education and it is their knowledge base that underpins all our actions. We aim to ensure that the necessary tools, resources and expertise are available though our global network to assure the future survival of the world’s plants. Our specific aims are:
Latest News8th August 2008
The Everett Children’s Adventure Garden in New York’s Botanical Garden has turned 10 years old. Opened in May 1998, becoming the first indoor-outdoor plant museum for children and adults in the United States. In the proceeding 10 years nearly 1.5 million children have visited the garden. 13th June 2008
The Chicago Botanic Garden will no longer sell bottled water. As part of its efforts on sustainability and energy conservation it was decided that only Chicago tap water would be served to the Gardens visitors. The change was implemented on June 5th in conjunction with World Environment Day. 29th May 2008
After 20 years of dreaming and planning the Paul Jovet Botanical Garden in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France opened its doors to the public for the first time. |
Great Botanic Gardens of the World
 Join Sara Oldfield on this panoramic perspective on the history and current contributions of the world's major botanic gardens. Lavishly illustrated, sales of this book support BGCI's work.
BGCI Garden Search
 Research over 2500 botanic gardens around the world on our unique Garden Search. Whether you are looking for collaboration, want to find out about plant collections or just want to visit a garden on holiday, the search will help you. Garden staff can login and update your own garden's pages. |
