Botanical gardens

The "Hortus Botanicus" in Leiden is Holland’s oldest (1590) botanical garden founded by Carolus Clusius, who in 1594 became the first to cultivate tulips in Holland. It’s a living museum with fine collections of orchids, ferns, passi-flora and trees. The Clusius Garden recreates the founder’s original 16th-century design.

De Plantage and Free University

Amsterdam has two excellent botanical gardens. ’De Plantage’ is an indoor and outdoor tropical and subtropical paradise, containing 6,000 different species of plants including palm trees, cacti and herbs. The garden of the ’Free University’ features a Japanese bonsai collection and flesh-eating plants.

Haren's Botanical garden

In the northern province of Groningen, ’Haren's Botanical Garden’ offers you theme gardens, color-coordinated gardens, a tropical glass house complex, and the ‘Hidden Ming Kingdom’ in which historic China comes back to life in a recreation of a Ming Dynasty garden.