Eden Project Garden

An extraordinary place- almost surreal in its size and modernity. Its popularity is almost its achilles heel..there are just SO many people visiting it [which is economically essential] and yet, as a visitor, a tad disconcerting..bit like waiting to get through customs/security at a busy airport..everything is so irritatingly slow.
The descent down to the domes takes you past great swathes of half functional half pleasant plantings, but in such large blocks it ends up looking ..boring.
The domes are something else! Walking around them, although lush to the point of getting scruffy, was somehow a little disapointing..an awful lot of green plants, trees and climbers and yet not quite enough plants in flower to give the 'wow' factor tropical gardens normally offer.
The arid zone domes are more eductional..whatever !
It is worth a visit but be warned..its crowded and slow. Best go mid-late afternoon.

(3.0/5)