Guide to the Bermuda Botanical Gardens

Created in 1898, the Bermuda Botanical Gardens offer guests the chance to talk a walk among a whole range of beautiful plants and flowers. Boasting vibrant colours and captivating scents, you’re sure to find plenty to please you as you explore the garden’s 36 acres. Read our guide to the Bermuda Botanical Gardens to find out more.

Discover lots of plants and flowers

Bermuda’s Botanical Gardens are full of beautiful blooms, all creating a sea of colour as you wander around. See rose gardens, flowering hibiscus, and delicate frangipani among other pretty florals. In addition to flowers, you’ll find a palm garden, a subtropical fruit garden, greenhouses full of orchids and succulents, and a sensory garden for the blind. This particular garden is full of the most wonderful smelling plants, with signs in Braille.

See Camden House

You can see Camden House, the official residence of Bermuda’s Premiere, when you visit the Botanical Gardens. Boasting true Bermudian architecture, and built in the 1700s, this house is home to a great collection of art and antiques which you can view. Behind Camden House, you’ll find a stunning rose garden, and an aviary where you can spot peacocks, ducks, and a number of other species of bird.

Have a bite to eat

There are plenty of benches dotted around the gardens where you can eat your own picnic lunch with a view. Alternatively, you might prefer to enjoy breakfast or lunch at Salty Time @ Homer’s Café which is located in the garden of the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art, where you can see artwork collections from a number of fantastic artists.

Visit the Bermuda Botanical Gardens

If you’d like to experience Bermuda’s Botanical Gardens for yourself, you can do so throughout the year. The gardens are open from sunrise until sunset, and the Visitor’s Centre is open between 9:30am and 3:30pm during the week. At 10:30am each day, you can choose to go on a guided tour of the gardens. The tour lasts for 90 minutes and will give you a real insight into the gardens and their history.

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