Dominica Botanical Gardens, Botanical garden in Roseau, Dominica

The Dominica Botanical Gardens covers 16 hectares in Roseau, on land that was a sugar plantation within Bath Estate. Its grounds hold the bois kwaib (Sabinea carinalis), Dominica's national tree and flower, along with a cannonball tree, a banyan, a century palm and ylang ylang. Laboratories on the site serve conservation research, including a parrot centre for the Jacko and Sisserou.

The British Crown Government began planning the gardens in 1889 to encourage crop diversification and give farmers correctly propagated seedlings. The 16 hectares, formerly a sugar plantation in Bath Estate, were sold to the government in 1891 by William Davies. Planting started in 1890 under curator Charles Murray of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, then Henry F. Green laid out the grounds; Joseph Jones took over management in 1892.

The gardens are one of the few open green spaces left in Roseau and have long served as a cricket ground; they were Dominica's main cricket venue until Windsor Park opened opposite them in 1971. State parades are often held on the grounds, and the four-day Creole in the Park music and cultural event takes place in the last week of October, during the World Creole Music Festival and independence celebrations.

The gardens sit on 16 hectares of former Bath Estate land in Roseau, with Windsor Park cricket ground opposite. Jack's Walk, built in the 1880s, starts here and climbs steeply for about 15 minutes to the top of Morne Bruce.

The fallen African baobab that crushed an empty school bus during Hurricane David in 1979 was left in place with the bus beneath it, and both remain in the gardens as a relic of the storm. The tree was among the old specimens lost that year.