Cambridge University Botanic Garden

The gardens are I think one of the most beautiful I know. They are not too sculptured or formal, yet they are so wonderfully cared for. It's relaxed with billowing rustling trees with such an abandon of beautiful plants and wild flowers. Such amazing trees. There are lots of benches and it's easy to find somewhere to sit and to soak up this dream in the centre of town.

My gripe was about rejoining the membership. The initial person on the gate got out of the kiosk place with a clipboard for us to sign up. I don't know why she needed to come out but she did. She wore no mask and stood within about 6 inches of us. In circumstances such as this I usually start backing away as I did here but she appeared to have ZERO awareness of any need to socially distance or of caution around this.. Another person then took over as it seemed there was a change of shift. We joined though I was a bit piddled off with contradictory information. I went to the Station Road gate on leaving and the person there allayed my concerns about a temporary pass on one bit of paper for a joint membership. She said should we come in separately one of us could use the receipt. I must say that the administration over this needs looking at and I would ask the management here to advise the young staff here to be more aware. It is my experience that young people in Cambridge show much less concern around Covid than other parts of the country.

Cambridge University Botanic Garden is a great place to visit if you enjoy nature. I visited with friends after the recent drought but there was still plenty to see.

I particularly enjoyed the greenhouses and the area by the lake.

There are plenty of benches to sit on and enjoy the scenery.

I hope to return at a different time of the year to see different plants in bloom.

I visited in August 2022 and it cost £7.50 per person to visit. There is no discount for older folk. It's just on the edge of the city centre and is well served by Trumpington Park & Ride on one side and buses heading for the railway station on the other. It's a very short walk from the railway station too.

I have been visiting this garden for more than a decade and it’s beauty and joy never fades. I live around a mile away from it. I can highly recommend spending a day there and make sure you visit the cafe. The food is very limited, over-expensive for what it is, but the restaurant is a stunning example of superb modern architecture and it is in a beautifully landscaped setting. I can only afford to visit once a year now. Personally now find it prohibitively expensive and there is no pricing for disadvantaged or low income visitors (not even locals), sadly.

A very pretty place with lots of varieties of plant species, both inside and outside of the greenhouses. A great day out for all the family, including kids of all ages, but don't let them touch the cacti (they are low growing and reachable by sneaky young'uns!). There's plenty of grass and benches for picnics, a small cafe with limited expensive choice so I would recommend bringing your own food, and paths that are accessible for pushchairs and wheelchairs. I would suggest going in the summer, as I went in the spring and most of the plants hadn't flowered yet, so I probably didn't choose a great time.
There wasn't a single bin in the whole garden, which I thought was shocking because you'd surely want to encourage people not to litter, so I dropped a star for that as it was a right pain in the bum having to carry sticky ice-cream wrappers around with us all day, attracting the wasps and bees. Also, the disabled toilets near the entrances weren't very accessible due to the angle of the entrance and the location of lots of ceramic plant pots and accessories for sale nearby, so that could be easily improved by managing the outside shop area a little better.

The Botanical garden is just on the edge of the main city and about 5 mins walk from kings Collage .
We had pre booked tickets due to restrictions on numbers.

As we visited in June the garden was in full display of great colours. The glass houses were not open to the public but you could see in and enjoy the exotic plants.

Being an Botanical garden plenty of information and varied layout.

Gravel paths make it family friendly for any push chairs

Two coffee shops around the gardens and option to purchase a few plants as well

This is not a cheap place to visit as the entry fee can be enough to put off families, or groups. However, no such fees exist if you are a member of Cambridge University. For wheelchair users or child buggies negotiating the greenhouses and the narrow paths inside is not good so wheelchair users will be restricted to the ouside paths and staring inside the greenhouses instead. The cafe is okay, and accessible, but again it's not cheap for the quality on offer. As gardens go its nothing to scream about, the greenhouses is what people go for I suppose unless you have a wheelchair.

At the moment booking is essential we arrived at 13.00 and the gardens were fully booked. Fortunately we had, access was easy and it made a wonderful setting for a picnic, lots of places to sit and eat and then a walk around the beautiful gardens. Well worth a visit at any time of the year. My favourite time to visit is Easter when all the spring flowers are in bloom.

Well impressed with the gardens over all up keep and variety of plants. The paths were an easy walk and the map was of great help. There is a nice area to watch the ducks and ducklings. We also ate at the cafe. The cafe has a variety of premade sandwiches and salads that are a bit over average price. The desert is really good so make sure you grab that.

Whilst fully appreciate the challenges of the recent dry weather but if you are charging for a full experience then you should deliver this. Clearly the area near the entrance has been regularly watered ,with lovely green grass . As soon as you get beyond this area almost everything is brown and dead , except the rather cramped greenhouse exhibits. Fine if you choose to let most plants die but visitors should be told at entry , and certainly a significantly reduced fee should be charged. The fact that the grass has been watered at the entrance really makes it feel like visitors are being cheated. If this area was as neglected as the rest I think many would exit at that point.

Took my eldest Daughter and three Grandchildren here for the day. It was absolutely Beautiful, so peaceful, even though we were right near a busy road you couldn’t hear any traffic at all, all down to very cleaver planting of Trees and Shrubs.The water fountain in the photo is so relaxing to watch.There are lots of different places to sit and either have a picnic or just have some quiet me time.Theres a cafe there with a good choice for all,wheelchair / Dog Friendly and the Children can run around to there hearts content and really enjoy there self's without being told to be quiet or keep off the Grass . Lots of Beautiful plants/ trees and also Green houses to see.