Kew Gardens

Explore 330 acres of tropical oasis at Kew Gardens in Richmond, southwest London. This incredible natural haven is full of rare and beautiful flowers and dangerous and carnivorous plants housed in temperate Victorian glass greenhouses.

Walk through the stunning Palm House, a feat of Victorian glass architecture, full of endangered and useful plants, including the cocoa tree and the oldest pot plant in the world.

Discover mountainous flora and fauna in the Rock Garden filled with waterfalls and plants from Himalayan mountain streams and meadows and the peaks of New Zealand.

Among an array of incredible attractions at Kew Botanical Gardens is the must-see Princess of Wales Conservatory. Adventure from the deserts to the tropics in this glass labyrinth full of Venus fly traps and pitcher plants who have evolved to swallow their prey in less than half a second. Giant water lilies float in the wet tropical zone in this humid hothouse, opened by Princess Diana in 1897.

Kew Botanical Gardens is truly one of London’s most beautiful attractions filled with wild and exotic natural phenomena, a real escape from the frenzy of modern life.

Summer Programme: Food Forever (21st May – 18th September 2022)
Across summer 2022, Kew Gardens will host an exciting programme, Food Forever, shining light on the future of food. It’s a brilliant opportunity for visitors to explore how their day-to-day food choices affect the planet and ways in which to protect the world around us and conserve biodiversity. 

Food Forever will be interactive with large-scale art installations showcasing different aspects of modern food consumption or production, film screenings, talks from food innovators and scientists and an immersive art exhibition in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art.