Seasonal Highlights
The Gardens are open every day except Christmas Day and Boxing Day and there is something new to see on every one of them!
Our seasonal walks give a suggested route around the Gardens designed to help you to enjoy the plant collection to the full whenever you visit.
To make sure you don’t miss the highlights, the table below shows you the best areas of the garden during the spring and summer.
In addition, check out the Plants of the Month page for our gardeners’ choice of their favourites and the Star Plants page to make sure you don’t miss particularly unusual historical and botanical specimens.
Seasonal Highlights | Spring | Summer | Autumn | Winter |
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Glasshouses | ||||
Tropical | Medinilla magnifica | Heliconia | Indonesia wax ginger | Calliandra |
Anthurium | Allamanda | coffee beans | cocoa | |
Subtropical | orchids | carnivorous plants | Hedychium | Christmas cacti |
tree ferns | Plumbago | Tibouchina | Dombeya | |
tea in flower | Senna | air plants | Poinsettia | |
Mediterranean | orange blossom | Bougainvillea | Coleus | giant lemon (citron) |
spring bulbs | Pelargonium | orange and lemons in fruit | cyclamen | |
Arid House | prickly pear | cacti in flower | living stones | mimosa |
Pleasure Grounds | ||||
Subtropical | orchids | carnivorous plants | Hedychium | Christmas cacti |
tree ferns | Plumbago | Tibouchina | Dombeya | |
tea in flower | Senna | air plants | Poinsettia | |
Story of Horticulture | ||||
Mediterranean | orange blossom | Bougainvillea | Coleus | giant lemon (citron) |
spring bulbs | Pelargonium | orange and lemons in fruit | cyclamen | |
Shrubbery | ||||
Arid House | prickly pear | cacti in flower | living ston |
Cupressus cashmeriana Eranthis (Winter aconite)Hamamelis(Witch hazel)Cyclamen coum Helleborus |
Past to Present | ||||
West Lawn PinetumHerbaceous Border Historic Gardens Alpine Yard |
Crocus, Narcissus Osmanthus Daphne Allium, PulmonariaTulipa, Wisteria |
Desfontainea Lilium regale PaeoniaRosa banksiae |
Vaccinium (cranberry) Ceratostigma willmottianum Helenium Cydonia oblonga Prunus ‘Kojo-no-mai’ |
Helleborus Iris reticulata Galanthis (snowdrop) |