If You Love Nature, You Have to Visit These Botanical Gardens All Over the World

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Emily H
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Jardim Botanico, Brazil

This botanical garden in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is an incredible feat. Within it, there are over 6,500 species of plants, and it was originally created in the early 19th century as a way to introduce different plants and herbs to Europe. Now it’s used for a lot of research in Brazil, but also as a wonderful place to see all the gorgeous plants and birds that live in it.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, England

Kew, England is home to one of the most fabulous indoors botanical gardens in the world, and is, in fact, the largest botanical gardens in the world. With more than 30,000 types of plants within the greenhouses, you will never find a collection like that anywhere else in the world! One of the greenhouses are even listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is only one of three with that title in the world.

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In the world of fast fashion and week-long trends it’s nice to find the odd piece that lasts in your wardrobe season after season. This dress, one of my first @chicwish pieces, is such an item, that comes out for sizzling summer holidays, early shoot mornings, romantic date nights, and everything in between. A little white dress is timeless and versatile (which is why my wardrobe is heaving with them!). What’s your absolute wardrobe staple? Oh, and a #BTS on the shot: we got to Kew for opening but there were still long queues for the orchid festival, as it’s only open for a couple of weeks and is super popular. @stephyttravels and I were dodging school parties and groups of tourists to get this shot, it took a lot of patience (and earned us a lot of confused stares) but was worth it. One of my faves!

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Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa has another botanical garden listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as well! The Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is especially different because there are only native plants in the garden, which is really special.

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The final floral scene from my visit to Kirstenbosch: a showy nine-pin heath (Erica mammosa) against the picture-perfect view of Castle Rock and Window Buttress. Endemic to the sandy flats and lower mountain slopes of South Africa's Western Cape province, this robust and celebrated plant – one of approximately 860 species in its genus – displays an extremely wide variation in flower colour, including numerous shades of pink (like the bubblegum-coloured form seen here) as well as red, purple and white. In one final moment of serendipity, I later noticed that the flower spike in the foreground is perfectly aligned with the popular mountainous hiking route of Skeleton Gorge in the background. #Flowers #Heath #NinePinHeath #Erica #Ericaceae #CastleRock #SkeletonGorge #WindowButtress #Kirstenbosch #KirstenboschGardens #KirstenboschBotanicalGarden #KirstenboschBotanicalGardens #KirstenboschNationalBotanicalGarden #KirstenboschNationalBotanicalGardens #SANBI #CapeTown #WesternCape #SouthAfrica

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