Editing Botanical garden (section)

==== New gardens ====

[[File:Eden project.JPG|thumb|The [[Eden Project]], established in 2000 in [[Cornwall]], England, includes a modern botanical garden exploring the theme of [[sustainability]].]]

Botanical gardens have continued to be built in the 21st century, such as the first botanical garden in [[Oman]], which is planned to be one of the largest gardens in the world, with the first large-scale [[cloud forest]] in a huge glasshouse.<ref name=bhist/><ref>{{cite web |title=The Project : Muscat, Oman |url=https://omanbotanicgarden.om/ |website=Oman Botanic Garden |access-date=3 February 2025 |date=2025}}</ref> Development of botanical gardens in China over recent years has been remarkable, including the [[Hainan]] Botanical Garden of Tropical Economic Plants at Guangzhou,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bgci.org/garden.php?id=949 |title=Hainan Botanical Garden of Tropical Economic Plants |work=BGCI.org |publisher=Botanic Gardens Conservation International |access-date=8 November 2011}}</ref> [[South China Botanical Garden]] the [[Xishuangbanna]] Botanical Garden of Tropical Plants and the [[Xiamen]] Botanic Garden.<ref>{{Harvnb|Heywood|1987|p=12}}</ref> In [[developed country|developed countries]], on the other hand, many have closed for lack of financial support, especially those attached to universities.<ref name=Hux92375 /> The [[Palestine Museum of Natural History]] has a botanic garden, which has been described as a site of nation-building and resistance by Silvia Hassouna.<ref name="Hassouna 2023">{{Cite journal |last=Hassouna |first=Silvia |date=2023-09-13 |title=Cultivating biodiverse futures at the (postcolonial) botanical garden |journal=Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers |volume=49 |issue=2 |doi=10.1111/tran.12639 |doi-access=free }}</ref>