Botanical gardens make unique contributions to research, conservation and public participation on climate change. They are home to unique resources, including diverse collections of plant species that grow in natural conditions, historical records and expert staff, and attract large numbers of visitors and volunteers. Visitors to botanical gardens are motivated to discover incredible things about plants that they didn't have the opportunity to experience in their natural environment. A botanical garden is an organized space, land, or establishment dedicated to cultivating, collecting, exhibiting, and often preserving a variety of plant species labeled with their botanical names, especially for scientific study and education.
Whether you're interested in medicinal plants, succulents, bonsai, orchids or carnivorous plants, there's sure to be a garden with a collection to satisfy your curiosity. Renowned sculptor Dale Chihuly's colorful glass creations have been exhibited in more than a dozen gardens in the United States. Appropriate botanical labels with scientific names (in Latin) of plants will be universally recognizable to experts, researchers and plant enthusiasts, regardless of the countries they come from or the languages they speak. Another fundamental function of botanical gardens and plant research programs is to create and maintain properly documented collections of the plants they exhibit.
By having precise botanical labels, a botanical garden can inspire guests to also take an interest in collecting, propagating and carrying out conservation efforts for various types of plants, in particular plants and plant families that, according to them, need more cultivation and protection. However, you can also find a botanical garden with a specific space reserved for herbaceous plants and an additional land reserved for woody or alpine plants. Another environmental benefit of the botanical garden worth mentioning is undoubtedly the protection of the waters against any contaminated runoff. After studying a specific plant, the botanical garden prepares a scientific work that comprehensively includes all the details and information about the taxonomy, adaptation and maintenance of that plant.
However, normally, in a larger, more established botanical garden (you know, it's not a back garden maintained for a single family of people, although they're also incredible), you'll see an access number so that plants can be searched in a system and easily identified. People don't even consider the support and protection that gardens can offer for their health, the environment and the nature that surrounds them. Impressive herb and flower collections and magnificent displays of living plants aren't necessarily the only wonders you'll find in a botanical garden. Many botanical gardens are facilities of an incredible collection of some wild plants from other regions of the world.
