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Botanic Garden

Daily

Cost: £2.50; schoolchildren free

Hours: 9am-4.30pm (until 5pm Mar, Apr & Oct; until 6pm May-Sep)

The University of Oxford's Botanic Garden is a national reference collection of 7000 different types of plant. Tucked besides Magdalene Collge, there is even more biological diversity here than there is in tropical rainforests.

The garden has sections: the glasshouses have plants that need protection from the extremes of the British weather, the area outside the walled garden has classic garden features such as a water garden and rock garden, and there are innovative Black and Autumn borders. Within the walled garden plants are grouped in a number of different ways, such as by country of origin, botanic family or economic use.

University of Oxford Botanic Garden