The University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Botanic gardens are collections of plants that are grown for purposes other than purely aesthetic reasons – but in Oxford Botanic Garden they do also try to arrange the plants in attractive, sympathetic and exciting ways.
For young (and old!) minds fascinated by the wonderful variety and splendid aesthetics of the collection - and certainly not forgetting budding artists - it is an excellent learning opportunity and partly for this reason they strive to label clearly every plant in the Garden for your information and reference.

Plants are grown in this Garden to support their teaching programmes, for research scientists in this University and elsewhere and as part of plant conservation projects.
Furthermore this Garden is a national reference collection of 7,000 different types of plant, making it the most compact yet diverse collection of plants in the World – there is even more biological diversity here than there is in tropical rain forests and other biodiversity hotspots.

The Garden consists of three sections.

The Glasshouses contain plants that need protection from the extremes of the British weather. The area outside the Walled Garden contains classic garden features such as a Water Garden and Rock Garden as well as the innovative Black Border and Autumn Borders. Within the Walled Garden plants are grouped in a number of different ways such as by country of origin, botanic family or economic use.
Perhaps not a full day out but definitely an enjoyable part of one.

If you've had fun on your family day out to The University of Oxford Botanic Garden, tell us about it your visit, so other people will know it's a great place to go as well.

http://www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk/Garden/obg-intro.html