Botanical gardens of the world in 3D

Gardens inspired by the world's great botanical gardens, each with several climate zones, its water and its buildings. Open one to walk it in 3D, watch it change through the seasons, or use it as a starting point for your own garden.

• The Huntington
  The Huntington Botanical Gardens (San Marino, California)
  Massed golden barrels, cardóns and quiver trees in the Desert Garden; a Chinese lake garden with pavilions and lotus; a moon bridge over the koi pond; the Temple of Love among the roses; the North Vista’s statues and fountain.
• UC Botanical Garden, Berkeley
  University of California Botanical Garden (Berkeley)
  The world’s plants by region along Strawberry Creek: manzanitas and ceanothus, proteas and aloes, rhododendrons round the 1939 Japanese Pool, eucalypts and tree ferns, and a redwood grove in fairy rings.
• Singapore Botanic Gardens
  Singapore Botanic Gardens (UNESCO World Heritage)
  Seraya and jelutong over durian and joey palms, Vanda Miss Joaquim in the sun beds, gingers round a waterfall, Swan Lake, the Symphony Stage and the 1930 bandstand ringed by rain trees.
• Gardens by the Bay
  Gardens by the Bay, Bay South (Singapore)
  Supertrees clad in bromeliads and ferns, linked by a skyway; baobabs and an olive grove under a cooled dome; a misty planted mountain in the Cloud Forest; lotus on Dragonfly Lake.
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden
  Brooklyn Botanic Garden (New York)
  Kanzan and Yoshino cherries in rows on the Esplanade, a torii standing in the Japanese pond, the Cranford Rose Garden, lily pools before a McKim, Mead & White building, and glacial boulders in the Rock Garden.
• China National Botanical Garden
  China National Botanical Garden, North Garden (Beijing)
  Spring blossom at the foot of the Western Hills: crabapples, lilacs and Yulan magnolias, tree peonies on terraces, ancient arborvitae at the Wofo Temple, a stream through dawn redwoods and a lake of lotus.
• The Butchart Gardens
  The Butchart Gardens (Victoria, British Columbia)
  Bedding massed on the floor of a limestone quarry under its sheer walls, the Ross Fountain leaping in the reservoir, rose arches, a torii among maples, the Star Pond and Douglas firs down to the cove.
• Arctic-Alpine Botanic Garden
  Arctic-Alpine Botanic Garden (Tromsø, Norway, 69.7° N)
  The world’s northernmost botanic garden under the midnight sun: purple saxifrage and arctic poppies, Himalayan blue poppies and giant cowslips by a stream, gentians and edelweiss on gneiss scree.
• Desert Botanical Garden
  Desert Botanical Garden (Phoenix, Arizona)
  Saguaros under the red Papago Buttes, palo verde, ironwood and creosote on the nature loop, a spring carpet of poppies and desert marigolds, and an adobe house with fields of corn, beans and squash.
• Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden
  Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden (Pattaya, Thailand)
  A Versailles parterre in red ixora and marigolds, a Stonehenge ringed by frangipani, one of the world’s great cycad collections, Bismarck and talipot palms, and a sala over a lake of lotus and giant water lilies.
• Fairy Lake Botanical Garden
  Fairy Lake Botanical Garden (Shenzhen, China)
  A lake of lotus under Wutong Mountain, the Hongfa Temple and pagoda on the hill, petrified logs in the Fossil Forest, the endangered Fairy Lake cycad, and spiny tree ferns by a waterfall.
• Kirstenbosch
  Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden (Cape Town)
  Proteas, silver trees and ericas under the cliffs of Table Mountain, the Boomslang walkway through yellowwood forest, red disas at Colonel Bird’s Bath, cycads in the amphitheatre and Van Riebeeck’s 1660 hedge.
• Missouri Botanical Garden
  Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis)
  The 1960 Climatron dome over a rainforest, Victoria water lilies in the reflecting pools, Seiwa-en’s lake with drum bridge and islands, the Linnean House orangery, a Victorian hedge maze and a summer prairie.
• Longwood Gardens
  Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania)
  Jets leaping in the Main Fountain Garden, a great conservatory with Victoria lilies in its courtyard pools, blue-tiled Italian pools under lindens, 600 feet of summer borders and a park of 200-year-old trees.
• Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro
  Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden (Brazil)
  The 1809 avenue of royal palms under Corcovado, giant Amazon water lilies on Frei Leandro Lake, pau-brasil and quaresmeira of the Atlantic forest, orchids and imperial bromeliads, and the old gunpowder-factory ruins.
• Monet’s gardens at Giverny
  Fondation Claude Monet (Giverny, Normandy)
  Paint-box beds of irises, poppies and roses before the pink house with green shutters, nasturtiums creeping under the rose arches of the Grande Allée, and the lily pond under the green Japanese bridge.
• Denver Botanic Gardens
  Denver Botanic Gardens (York Street, Colorado)
  Sagebrush, rabbitbrush and piñon on a dryland mesa under red sandstone, alpines among granite boulders, lotus and water lilies in the Monet Pool, and a tea house in Shofu-en.
• Na ʻĀina Kai Botanical Gardens
  Na ʻĀina Kai Botanical Gardens and Sculpture Park (Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi)
  Flame trees round a koi lagoon and a hedge maze with a bronze at its heart, ʻōhiʻa lehua, hau hele and loulu palms in a canyon under a waterfall, and coconut palms along the beach on the north shore.
• New York Botanical Garden
  The New York Botanical Garden (the Bronx)
  A Victorian glass palace round a palm dome, old-growth hemlocks and oaks over the Bronx River falls by the 1840 Stone Mill, the Fountain of Life before the domed library, and a terraced native wetland.
• Jardin botanique de Montréal
  Montréal Botanical Garden (Quebec)
  The Tower of Condensing Clouds over Dream Lake and its rockery waterfall, a Japanese pond and stone garden, white spruce, paper birch and sugar maple in the First Nations Garden, and alpines on a rock outcrop.
• Kew: glasshouses and rock garden
  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London)
  A Victorian palm house heated to 18 °C, a temperate house of five continents, sandstone crags with a waterfall and alpines of the world’s mountains, a gravel Mediterranean garden and bluebell woodland.
• Riverside botanical garden
  Classic temperate botanical gardens
  A waterfall feeds a river under a red moon bridge into a lake, past a canal parterre with urns, a sculpture lawn and long borders.
• Thai tropical garden
  Tropical gardens of Bangkok
  Coconut palms, frangipani, heliconia and hibiscus round a pond with a red bridge, a rock waterfall and a sala.