St Andrews Botanic Garden

It is located on the banks of the wooded Kinness Burn in the Canongate area, on the southern edge of the town.

These are laid out in zones of woodland, meadow, shrubbery, herbaceous bedding, sand dunes, a large rockery and a series of ponds.

[2][3] There are borders that specialise in Chinese and Chilean flora, containing both woody and herbaceous specimens.to recreate the full environment of those parts of the world.

The gardens also house an algal herbarium based on the collection of seaweed specimens gathered originally by the phycologist Margaret Gatty (1809-1873) and enlarged since her death.

[6] The early site consisted of 78 similar beds laid out according to the Bentham and Hooker system of plant classification.