Last updated on 10 July 08

Ontario Royal Botanical Gardens

5.0/5 (1 ratings)

Photograph © Royal Botanical Gardens
Photograph © Royal Botanical Gardens
Earth Art 2008. Photograph © Roy Staab

Gardenvisit Editorial

The Royal Botanical Gardens in Ontario is Canada's largest botanical garden. Only 10% of this vast area is cultivated as a botanic garden. The remainder is managed as a natural zone of marshland, woodland, meadow and virgin forest. There is a Rose Garden, Lilac Garden, Rock Garden, Arboretum and Mediterranean Garden.

Head Gardener's Comment

One of the world’s largest botanical gardens, Royal Botanical Gardens, encompasses 2,700 acres of land, including five garden locations and more than 2,400 acres of conservation lands. Gardens are linked by shuttle bus and include over 40,000 recorded plants in more than 50 collections including the one of the world’s largest collections of lilacs and nearly two acres of roses. Royal Botanical Gardens hosts year-round events for a wide-range of audiences including bloom festivals beginning in April with the Tulip Celebration and continuing through July with the Rose Celebration. RBG presents outdoor and indoor art exhibitions and an outdoor summer music series from June to September. Family and themed events take place year-round.

Address - 680 Plains Road West, Burlington, Ontario, Canada, L7T 4H4
Opening times - All year. Daily.
Admission - Adults $10 Seniors & Students $7 Children (5-12) $5 Family $25
Website - Visit the Ontario Royal Botanical Gardens website

Local Hotels

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Sheraton Hamilton (3km away)
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Recent Reviews

about 1 year ago Craig White said
Absolutely huge, the RBG offers many settings - greenhouses, formal gardens, paradise gardens, fields, hills, forests, marshes, cliff sides, lakeside - it's quite staggering really when one starts to get a handle on how much it has to offer. Amongst the offerings, the tulip show during early spring in the rock garden, and the lilac show in the dell in later spring are standouts.

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