Autumn colour garden
Bed of British native plants
Dry garden — demonstrates planting requiring reduced watering
Fen display
Genetics garden
Glasshouses, containing about 3,000 species, have been restored and almost entirely replanted to display global plant diversity, and comprise:
Continents Apart, comparing and contrasting the fire dependent, floristically rich plant communities of South Africa and SW Australia, once conjoined in the supercontinent Gondwana
Oceanic Islands, exploring the floral diversity peculiar to island archipelagos
Mountains, exploring how plants survive life in a cold climate
Tropical Rainforests, a hotbed of competition
Carnivores, displaying the diversity of traps in carnivorous plants
Arid Lands, displaying drought tolerant plants from continental Africa and the Americas, including many Succulent and Cactus species, and demonstrating the phenomenon of convergent evolution.
Life Before Flowers, full of ferns and filmy ferns.
Herbaceous borders