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The National Botanic Gardens (Irish: Garraithe Náisiúnta na Lus) is a botanical garden in Glasnevin, 5 km north-west of Dublin city centre, Ireland. [1] The 19.5 hectares [ 2 ] are situated between Glasnevin Cemetery and the River Tolka where it forms part of the river's floodplain .
Nearly 273,000 [1] individual plants are grown at the Botanics in Edinburgh or its three smaller satellite gardens (known as Regional Gardens) located in other parts of Scotland. These represent around 13,300 [ 1 ] species from all over the world, or about 4% [ 1 ] of all known plant species.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The main site is in Edinburgh at Inverleith, with three "Regional Gardens": Benmore Botanic Garden in Argyll, formerly known as the Younger Botanic Garden; Dawyck Botanic Garden in the Scottish Borders; Logan Botanic Garden in Galloway
Royal Belfast Botanical Gardens, Northern Ireland; Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scotland; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England; See also
The Botanic Garden was established in 1869 and was gifted to Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1969. [5] [1] The gardens were built around the ruins of Balzieland Castle. [6] A new glasshouse was built at Logan in 2014. [7] [8] The building was designed as a Victorian architecture conservatory. [7]
[3] [4] On 4 December 1970 the house was listed as a historic building in category B, with Historic Scotland id 28081. [5] An extension was built in 1974. [2] Since 1986 the house has been used as exhibition space by the Royal Botanic Garden. [3] Exhibitions of botanical and contemporary art are held there.
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Griffith Park (Irish: Páirc Uí Ghríofa) is a 7.5-hectare (19-acre) park located on the banks of the River Tolka in Dublin city between Glasnevin and Drumcondra.The park is a short distance downstream of Ireland's National Botanic Gardens, and upriver of Our Lady's Park, and has been noted by Discover Ireland as "one of the premier north city parks". [1]