A Botanic Heaven & Glorious Garden

Walks, England, Isle of Wight

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  • There’s free parking here but you have to pay to enjoy the gardens. Get your free parking pass when you purchase your entrance fee.

    Step 1: There’s free parking here but you have to pay to enjoy the gardens. Get your free parking pass when you purchase your entrance fee.

  • Step 2: Did you know that due to Ventnor’s micro-climate, the temperature in the garden is 5°c hotter than anywhere else in the country making the gardens the hottest point in the whole of the UK.

  • Step 3: The garden is on the site of the Royal National Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, a sanatorium established there to exploit the same mild climate with south-facing rooms for patients.

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