Johannesburg Botanical Garden, Botanical garden in Emmarentia, Johannesburg, South Africa

Johannesburg Botanical Garden covers about 125 hectares in Emmarentia, east of the Emmarentia Dam. Its oldest part is the terraced rose garden laid out in 1964 by curator Patric Chambers, with seven sloping terraces holding some 10,000 roses, water features and fountains, and the Huguenot monument at its top. Other sections include a Shakespeare garden with a circular amphitheatre, a hedge garden of 58 hedge types, a succulent garden opened in 2006, an arboretum and a herb garden.

Established in 1968 on former farmland, the garden grew from an earlier rose garden started in 1964. Its location by the Emmarentia Dam, constructed after the Second Boer War, connects the space to the region's broader history.

The Shakespeare Garden holds herbs named in Shakespeare's plays, each label carrying a quotation, and has a circular amphitheatre where Shakespearean events can be held. The Huguenot monument at the top of the rose garden marks the 300th anniversary of the Huguenots in South Africa. The chapel garden is used for weddings of all denominations.

The main entrance is on Thomas Bowler Street in Roosevelt Park, with a second Thomas Bowler Street gate nearer Beyers Naude Drive; both are used by dog walkers and cyclists. Further gates open on Orange Street in Emmarentia, at the corner of The Braids and Louw Geldenhuys Drive, and on Olifants Street beside the dam wall, the usual approach for the dam and Floreum.

The herbarium holds around 5,500 pressed plant specimens from South Africa and elsewhere, maintained and exchanged with botanical institutions worldwide. This collection serves botanical research and education beyond the visible garden spaces.