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Dahlias growing in Outdoor Gardens at Eden Project

Outdoor Gardens

In a beautiful and symbolic transformation, we've turned what was once a barren landscape into our striking contemporary Outdoor Gardens. Across the vast slopes of the former clay mine, we present cultivated and wild landscapes and explore our dependence on both.

The Gardens are home to over 20 plant-based exhibits, colourful seasonal borders, art installations and play areas. The Wild Edge area displays the world’s temperate lands while the Crops area introduces plants for food, fuels, medicines and materials. There are gardens for play, creativity, fruit, veg, flowers, health and wellbeing. Our growing Climate Garden takes you through 400 million years and explores possible positive futures.

A kaleidoscope of plants and art

Wildflowers growing in Outdoor Gardens

Dahlias growing in Outdoor Gardens at Eden Project

South Africa Garden in Outdoor Gardens at Eden Project

Lavender growing at Eden Project

Sense of Taste garden at Eden Project

Gardener in Global Gardens allotment at Eden Project

A giant bee sculpture installed on the side of a green bank with the Eden biome's in view in the distance

Eve sculpture of woman in Outdoor Gardens

A view of the cloud chamber installation which is built out of stone

Japanese swale in Outdoor Gardens at Eden Project

Hear from our staff

Plants in the Outdoor Gardens

Hops growing in front of the Eden Project Biomes

Hops

Hops are used in beer-making for the bitter taste, flavour stability and retention of the foamy head on top.

Swathes of lavender in front of the Eden Project's Biomes

Lavender

This fragrant, multipurpose herb has been used for all sorts of things from perfume to lice repellent!

Red leaved sweet gum tree with Eden's Biomes in the background

Sweet gum

These trees turn a dramatic crimson each autumn, and their red tinged timber is used for veneer and furniture.

Ginkgo leaves on a branch

Ginkgo

The Ginkgo biloba is one of the world's oldest living tree species and was around 350 million years ago.

Tea plant

Tea

There are about 3,000 different types of tea. The flavour depends on where they grow and the type of bush.

Monkey puzzle trees

Monkey puzzle

This tree is home to over 70 types of insects that live nowhere else on earth, but no monkeys!

Yew hedge with Eden Project Biomes in the background

Yew

Yew is extraordinarily long-lived and slow-growing, with some trees estimated to be over 3,000 years old.

Gardener Colin Skelly

Meet one of our gardeners

Colin Skelly loves not only getting his hands dirty, but helping others connect with the living world around them.

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Rainforest leaves being watered in the Rainforet Biome at the Eden Project

Our mission

We celebrate plants and the natural world, reconnect people with them and work to regenerate damaged landscapes.

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Bee on sunflower

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