Ventnor Botanic Garden

This is undoubtedly the best garden on the Island, offering a wonderful variety of plants from all corners of the planet. It's south facing, seaside aspect, allows it to grow a superb range of non-hardy, tropical plants - the vibrant colours of the South Africa Garden are particularly stunning. There is a sheltered restaurant offering good food from March to October, a plant sales centre and even a children's playground to keep the little ones happy. And entrance is absolutely free!

(5.0/5)

I was really amazed by this garden and would thoroughly recommend it to anyone visiting the Isle of Wight (in fact, worth making a special trip for if you are interested in unusual plants!).
It's a little piece of heaven with all the wonderful plants from around the world and you'll always find something unique here.

(5.0/5)

This has become a really fascinating garden, good enough to rival Tresco with it's subtropical plantings, but the highlights of the garden are the Mediterranean plantings, not just of plants from the region but of plants from these kinds of climatic regions around the world e.g. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. The self-sown wildness of the Mediterranean garden is a tribute to the forward-thinking horticultural practices of the Curator and his staff. Australia is a triumph of imagination and skill-faux rock has been constructed around scrap vehicles and clad from top to bottom with Eucalypts, Leptospermums and more. The achievements over the whole site on a small budget by this team are superb. Go and see it!

(4.0/5)