Birmingham Botanical Gardens Review

This venue is a little tired, but a fantastic place to visit in the heart of Birmingham. Glasshouses and garden are wonderful to explore. The facilities were functional and the staff attentive and helpful. Its not quite Kew but its the next best thing i have visited in this country

Amazing and soothing place to hang around with family and friends...

The greenhouses are fantastic, the rest of the gardens are wonderful! Worth it!

Enjoyable afternoon out but parts of the garden do look a little run down

Lovely gardens, with well maintained tropical and temperate greenhouses

Lovely evening with Grandchildren at the Festival of Light

Lovely place to go if your into plants or need some quiet time. Very helpful staff that I meet.

We recently enjoyed a visit to the gardens to see the magical lantern festival. Worth braving the cold for. The place was well marshalled in the dark.

It was good afternoon out, however felt like the gardens could have been looked after a bit better, some of the plants could have been presented better. The main highlight was the free roaming peacocks. Got a little bored after an hour or so of looking around.

Absolutely amazing place anytime of the day, highly recommend for anyone to go by yourself with group of friends or family with kids

Fantastic visit even if it was a bit wet to start off with

So beautiful and ethereal. Peace of the soul, mind and body.

Nice space especially for evenings (Weddings, or other events) car park ideally located

The cafe needs to be more disabled friendly more space

Lovely gardens, with great function rooms.

Staff are really friendly too, could not do enough to meet all our needs.

Excellent never new it was such a big place. Can't thank you enough for inviting us. Thank you so much.

We really like it here. Its great in the glasshouse areas with all the tropical plants. The outside gardens look different all year round with Spring and Autumn being the best in my opinion.
Great play areas for the kids (& adults). Peacocks are brilliant.
Take your own picnic as the onsite restaurant gets really busy and is rather expensive.
Car parking can be pretty tight as when we went, it was the last space (half term). Parking is free as pong as you enter your reg inside the reception area.

Beautiful and so relaxing. I love the ingress portals and pokemon go stops too.

We came to the 'Ice Age' event which the kids enjoyed, however the gardens themselves are stunning. Will be even better in summer with everything in bloom.
Got lucky enough to see one of the peacocks in full show-off mode!

Spent 4 hours at the Gardens today even though very cold a really beautiful place to spend a Saturday morning with family..

Thoroughly enjoyed a chilled out walk around the houses and gardens. Enjoyed yhe luve music too. Great value!!!

I went at the botanical garden in April. It was a beautiful sunny day and I wanted to enjoy a relaxing day with my girlfriend at the botanical garden. To my surprise I found the price inflated to 14 pounds per person because of the ice age events. I could not care less and I wanted just the gardens but there is no option for that. They want to force feed you the ice age event. Lame

Had a great afternoon with a couple of close friend last Sunday.
Took a small picnic and listened to a duet of lady jazz singer and accompanying guitarist. Very pleasant indeed.
Can recommend it especially for the next few Sundays as there will be different artists appearing and it's all in with the entrance fee.
Obviously you also have the beautiful gardens to look around too. Enjoy !

Very small compared to Kew. Not much in green houses mostly outdoor so pray for good weather. Fantastic lights at xmas.

Magic lantern show. Bit disappointing, would not go again.

Was OK they have had there Halloween thing on it was good

Nice though it could be taken care of more ... and enriched with flowers ... however, the butterfly room is fantastic!

Nice and quiet place. Good to meditate and get away from the daily stress!

Went for the Ice Age experience. Fun day out and lovely to see the grounds and botanicals. Shame they weren't able to provide additional parking at the school this time.

A wonderful visit. There is a lot of story telling within the grounds and a visit is recommended

It's so good to tale young children. They will be amazed by the peacocks who will follow you around if they spot food. There's also a plau ground for both ypung and older children and a restaurant too. A fantastic day out for the family.

Great green space in middle of Birmingham. Enjoyable for whole family. In addition to plants, bird aviary x 2 and playgrounds with Peacocks wondering around freely. Cafe is pricey but gift shop is very good. Hold events throughout the year.

Limited range of rundown hothouses. I felt sorry for the caged birds. The chef had already left the restaurant at 2.00pm so no hot meals available. Coffee and cake was available.

One of my favourite botanical gardens in the country. Highly recommended

Went on the first weekend of reopening after Covid. Lovely place, but needs to be better geared up following lockdown. The hand sanitiser dispenser as we entered was empty. And maps need to be made available as you ve no idea where you re going unless you re familiar with the place.

Maybe it was because it was so warm and sunny when we went but it might just be heaven on Earth.

Overpriced for what's on offer. The grounds are absolutely beautiful and if you have never been it is worth a visit however it can be quite costly for a family

Beautiful gardens and an amazing place for events like weddings!

Very run down, the glass houses were nice and there was a great Brass Band playing. We had a sandwich which was average for the price and the gentleman serving made us feel like we were causing him an inconvenience ordering as he was training someone to use the coffee machine, we nearly walked out but it was raining and we were famished!

We visited here for the 'The Lost Kingdom: Ice Age' my little boy loved seeing all the prehistoric animals, I highly recommend anyone interested in this subject to go. Apart from the animals the gardens looked really nice and well looked after

Quite small but usually plenty of activities going on. Has a decent kids play area. Just watch out for the parking, its limited and if you are not really careful you will get a parking fine here!

We went for the light festival. Not suitable for wheelchair users and very dark in places. Making steps unsafe.

Attended The Wizard's Brunch here yesterday. Loved it, great entertainers, the venue looked amazing and actors on point. Would recommend this event!

Botanic Gardens was a perfect spot for it - was lovely.

We went there for a light festival.
Kids loved it.

Absolutely fabulous! Came for the gardens and afternoon tea on a voucher with my mum. Also brought my dad, and paid for his entry. The guys dealing with afternoon tea were fantastic, especially as we snuck my dad in extra (we thought it'd be in the cafe and we could just buy coffee and cake. It's not). They provided extra sandwiches and coffee to make sure the food stretched between three, and the food and service was excellent. The plants and gardens themselves were beautiful as always. Always enjoy looking at the birds too

I have always loved this place, I came here and now I get to take my own children.

Very busy with school kids today, but beautiful gardens, so clean and well kept!

Really beautiful and a wide range of flowers unfortunately the cafe was out of stock of a lot of the items, however it did not put a dampner on a lovely day out!

Made a lovely spring afternoon walk, followed by a cream tea for two.

Beautiful is worth it ... the entry a little expensive .. but it is very nice. Perfect to go with children. Even the cafeteria is worth it. The best of Birmingham!

Such an amazing place. Very peaceful, but absolutely fantastic as a wedding reception venue.

Nice grounds. Some interesting plants. Good coffee shop.

Went for the afternoon and had a really good time value for money lot's to do and see

A GREAT RELAXING PLACE TO VISIT PLANTS FROM ALL ROUND THE WORLD TO ENJOY 15 MINS FROM CITY CENTRE WHAT A GEM

Visited these beautiful gardens for the first time yesterday and was not disappointed. Had a lovely day. My 10 year old daughter loved exploring all the different areas. Great place for a relaxing afternoon and young children will love exploring this place. Nice area for picnics. Gift shop is lovely and my daughter loved spending her pocket money in there. Very beautiful place. Nothing bad to say.

The gardens were beautiful. It was a lovely space to share. When we went there were small children rolling down a bank and running around. It's so good to have a safe place to play in a busy city. The coffee shop had interesting cakes too.
Parts of the gardens(buildings mostly) looked a bit tired but didn't detract from the overall fabulousness. I especially loved the greenhouses.

We went to the scare Gardens it was fun and not too scary

Lovely place to visit, there are peacocks roaming freely and plenty of things to see

Excellent garden. So many plant species found here.

Very interesting, so many things to look at. Kids will definitley enjoy this

Beautiful Place! Well worth a visit to see all the different type of plants, butterfly house, birds includes peacocks and just lazing in the sun.