15 Beautiful Botanical Gardens in India You should Visit

Botanical Survey of India is responsible to survey the plant resources of country, List of Botanical Gardens in India are Agri Horticultural Society of India,National Orchidarium Botanical Garden Yercaud, Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute and National Botanical Research Institute.

Indian Botanic Garden, Kolkata

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden is the largest botanical gardens in India. The Indian Botanic Garden has enormous collections of orchids, bamboos, palms and The Great Banyan Tree.

Botanical Garden, Saharanpur

Botanical Garden of Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh is also known as the Company Garden and one of the oldest existing gardens in India.

Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore

Lalbagh Botanical Garden is the most famous botanical garden in India, located in southern Bengaluru. Lalbagh Garden houses India’s largest collection of tropical plants and main tourist attractions in Bangalore.

Government Botanical Gardens, Ooty

Government Botanical Gardens Udhagamandalam is home to thousand species of exotic and indigenous plants. The Gardens also host flower show and has a nurseries, public conservatory, an Italian garden and fountain terrace.

Tropical Botanic Garden, Trivandrum

Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute in Trivandrum was established by the Government of Kerala. The garden also engaged in garden planning and research.

Lloyd Botanic Garden, Darjeeling

Lloyd Botanic Garden or Darjeeling Botanical Garden preserves several species of rhododendron, bamboo and oak. Darjeeling Botanical Garden along with Himalayan Zoological Park are two major tourist attractions of Darjeeling.

Jawaharlal Nehru Botanical Garden, Gangatok

Jawaharlal Nehru Botanical Gardens in Gangtok is located close to Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim. The Botanical Garden host flower exhibition and home to rare species of Orchid and Rhododendron.

National Botanic Garden, Lucknow

The National Botanic Garden inside the National Botanical Research Institute, situated in the heart of Lucknow. The institute is one of the first research institutes in plant sciences in India.

Assam State Botanical Garden, Guwahati

Assam State Zoo cum Botanical Garden is the largest garden of its kind in North East India. Guwahati Zoo and botanical garden is home to animals,birds and plants.

Semmozhi Poonga Botanical Garden, Chennai

Semmozhi Poonga Botanical Garden in Chennai was set up by horticulture department Tamil Nadu. The botanical garden is first in the city and houses exotic flora and rare plant species.

Pilikula Botanical Garden, Mangalore

Pilikula Botanical Garden of Mangalore is home to woody species of plants. Pilikula Nisargadhama park house endemic species of plants from the Western Ghats region.

Reddy Botanical Garden, Hyderabad

Kotla Vijayabhaskara Reddy Botanical Garden of Hyderabad is located near the HITEC City of Madhapur. The botanical garden is a eco tourist destination in Hyderabad and home to list of varieties of bamboo trees.

Botanical Garden, Chandigarh

Chandigarh Botanical Garden is located between Rock Garden and Sukhna Lake, in the foothills of Shivalik. The garden and nature park near the village Sarangpur is spread over 176 acres and established by the Chandigarh Administration.

Waghai Botanical Garden, Saputara

Waghai Botanical Garden is a thematic garden in Saputara and home to wide range of native and exotic plant samples. Waghai town near the hill station of Saputara is also home to breathtakingly beautiful Gira Waterfalls of Gujarat.

Nehru Memorial Botanical Garden, Srinagar

Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Botanical Garden in Srinagar contains many types of plants. The garden is located near to Chashma Shahi Mughal garden and has a rare collection of Kashmiri tropical plants and vegetation.