The University of Oxford Botanic Garden

Visit inspiring herbaceous borders, glasshouses that take you around the World or simply relax in the oldest Botanic Garden in Britain. The Botanic Garden is the most compact, yet diverse collection of plants in the World right in the heart of the city centre and is open throughout the year for you to visit and enjoy.

 

There are approximately 5000 different plant species growing at the Botanic Gardens, making it one of the most biodiverse areas of land in the World.

 

The Walled Garden houses the scientific collections:

Family Beds 

Geographic Collections 

The Euphorbia Collection

The Medicinal Collection

The 1648 Collection

Woodland

 

The Lower Garden contains the ornamental collections:

Herbaceous Border

Rock Garden

Autumn Border

Vegetable Collection

Orchard

Bog Garden

Merton Borders

 

The Botanic Garden was founded in 1621 with a mission "to promote the furtherance of learning and to glorify nature". In the almost 400 years since then, although many people and plants have been involved in the history of the Garden we continue to educate as many people as possible about the importance of plants, to help conserve plants around the world and to support teaching and research at the University and beyond.