Royal Botanical Gardens has five geographically separated garden areas. For more information click on one of the names below, or click here to see a map of our garden areas.

Virtual Tours
Tour RBG Centre and garden areas.

RBG Centre
Season of interest: all year

RBG Centre is our headquarters and information centre. Along with a variety of visitor services, RBG Centre includes greenhouses, special collections and floral displays, both indoors and out.

Hendrie Park Gardens (Rose Garden)
Season of interest: May through October

Major horticultural features include roses, medicinal plants, scented plants, lilies, climbers and espaliers, woodland plants and many of our smaller feature gardens.

NewHelen M. Kippax Wild Plant Garden
Open September 17, 2008


Laking Garden
Season of interest: May through October

Major horticultural features include irises, perennials, peonies, daylilies, ornamental grasses and the Heritage Garden.

Rock Garden
Season of interest: May through October

Major horticultural features include spring bulb display, summer annuals display, flowering cherries, azalea display and many unusual trees and shrubs.

Arboretum
Season of interest: all year

Major horticultural features include lilacs, rhododendrons, magnolias, flowering shrubs, trees, Ontario native trees and shrubs, conifers, native plants, hedges, dogwoods and redbuds, hawthorns, flowering crabapples and the Maze.

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Information resources
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About Horticulture
Gardens and Collections
Plant Documentation
Plant Propagation
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