This garden in Wales among the most popular in the world, data reveals!

From lush plants to aesthetically pleasing layouts, botanical gardens offer us nature to explore and a multitude of plants to admire. When stepping into an oasis of flowers, there are many opportunities to photograph the best blooms of the season!

Interested to find out which botanical gardens in the world we enjoy the most, Savoy Stewart decided to compile Instagram data for 70 popular botanical gardens, highlighting the most Instagrammable botanical gardens that we can’t get enough of photographing and sharing!

UK’s Most Instagrammable Botanical Gardens

Global Ranking	Botanical garden	Location	Number Of Instagram Hashtags
2	Kew Gardens	London	807,588
9	The Eden Project	Cornwall	262,448
24	The Alnwick Garden	Northumberland	43,084
25	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh	Edinburgh	36,556
35	The Birmingham Botanical Gardens	Birmingham	20,884
40	Cambridge University Botanic Garden	Cambridge	16,615
50	University of Oxford Botanic Garden	Oxford	12,611
51	Sheffield Botanical Gardens	Sheffield	11,960
56	National Botanic Garden of Wales	Llanarthne	8,255

Nine gardens are shortlisted as the most Instagrammable botanical gardens in the UK. 

With 807,588 hashtags on Instagram, Kew Gardens, located in west London, ranks second in the worldwide results, and as the most Instagrammable botanical garden in the UK!

On the coastline of England, The Eden Project in Cornwall places second in the UK and 9th in the world with 262,448 tags on the app. 

The Alnwick Garden in Northumberland ranks third in the UK with 43,084 Instagram tags, which places 24th overall in the worldwide rankings.

World’s top 5 most Instagrammable botanical gardens

Global Ranking	Botanical garden	Location	Number Of Instagram Hashtags
1	Gardens by the Bay	Singapore, Singapore	1,209,129
2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew	London, England	807,588
3	Keukenhof	Lisse, Netherlands	665,836
4	Kenroku-en Garden in Kanazawa	Kanazawa, Japan	448,508
5	Jardin Majorelle	Marrakesh, Morocco	298,671

1. Gardens by the Bay, Singapore – # 1,209,129

Savoy Stewart can reveal that Gardens by the Bay in Singapore is crowned the most Instagrammable botanical garden in the world, with over 1.2 million photos tagged! Located in the bay area of Singapore, this futuristic national garden is dedicated to the country’s vision of creating a “Garden City”. With the world’s largest greenhouse Flower Dome, architectural masterpiece Supertrees, and Children’s Garden, it is no wonder that it is such a popular location for horticulture lovers and families from across the world. 

2. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, England – # 807,588

Coming in second place is the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London, England with over 807 thousand hashtags on Instagram. From a royal palace in the 18th century to a modern day world-leading garden and research institution, Kew Gardens boasts a large and diverse collection of over 50,000 different plants and around seven million preserved specimens. When you scroll through the Kew Garden tags on Instagram, you are also greeted with images of Temperate House, the timeless Victorian-era greenhouse, known as the largest Victorian glass structure in the world. 

3. Keukenhof, Netherlands  –  # 665,836

The floral spring garden Keukenhof in Lisse, Netherlands is in third place with 665 thousand photos tagged. With 7 million flower bulbs planted each year, Keukenhof is known for its large range of flowers, and especially for tulips. Despite its limited eight weeks of opening time annually, over 1.5 million visitors around the world come to catch the full bloom of tulips during mid March and May.

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