London's oldest botanic garden, containing a unique living collection of over 4,500 different edible, useful and medicinal plants that have changed the …
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Mar 12, 2025
Like one other review, we found the snowdrop numbers and varieties mildly disappointing. Viewing Snowdrops has become an annual SB birthday quest and we have seen better. However, this did not detrac…Full review by SBJHBarnet
Feb 16, 2025
We have been coming to this garden on a fairly regular basis for many years and look forward to what used to be the Snowdrop festival but is now called Heralding Spring. The problem is that nothing s…Full review by sheepygold
Dec 30, 2024
The setting is lovely and at a place like the Physics Garden, we were expecting food and service along lines of a historic attraction cafe. Food was just not of good quality and service was very indi…Full review by Vacation06821410533
Is there a tram or ground travel at the Garden, like there is at Kew Garden?
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No. The garden is only small, just over 3 acres, and does not cover the vast space that Kew Gardens covers. You can walk around the entire garden in about half an hour! There is …
No. The garden is only small, just over 3 acres, and does not cover the vast space that Kew Gardens covers. You can walk around the entire garden in about half an hour! There is no need for a tram / ground travel.
Could you ? Possibly. Should you ? Frankly - NO. Why not ? Simply because it is not the right place for picnickers splattered across the limited grassy spaces. . It is not a great park, …
Could you ? Possibly. Should you ? Frankly - NO. Why not ? Simply because it is not the right place for picnickers splattered across the limited grassy spaces. . It is not a great park, like Battersea Park on the south side of the river where there is plenty of space and you could happily have a picnic, but a compact, manicured garden where such an activity would despoil the look of the garden for other visitors. There is a café there with outdoor tables and seating, where I suspect you could eat your own sandwiches, but courtesy suggests that you should at least buy part of your meal there.
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