Friends of the City of Swansea Botanical Gardens

The Botanical Gardens in Swansea have a renowned 40 metres double herbaceous border. Many mature trees of national importance. Glasshouses with orchids, temperate and tropical plants.

Wildflower meadow in season. Colour and interest all year.

If you are looking for plant sales in Swansea visit "The Friends Plant Shop",it is open Wednesday all year and from Saturday 30th March to end of September from 10 am to 2 pm. See our Plant sales Page.

Guided walks available.

Tŷr Blodau , is a purpose built meeting room with a kitchen and is available for hire.

To Hire Tŷr Blodau : Click here to find out more

Opening Times.

GERDDI BOTANEG

BOTANICAL GARDENS

AMSERAU AGOR A CHAU

OPENING & CLOSING TIMES

Ionawr - Chwefror 10.00am - 3.30pm

January - February 10.00am - 3.30pm

Mawrth - Ebrill 10.00am - 4.30pm

March - April 10.00am - 4.30pm

Mai - Medi 10.00am - 6.00pm

May - September 10.00am - 6.00pm

Hydref 10.00am - 4.30pm

October 10.00am - 4.30pm

Tachwedd - Rhagfyr 10.00am - 3.30pm

November - December 10.00am - 3.30pm

Come along and visit - Open throughout the year and it is free.

Whatever the season there is always something of interest to see at the Botanical Gardens.

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History

1919

The private estate of the wealthy Vivian family is bought at auction by the Swansea Corporation for the sum of £90,000 for use as a public park.

1923

The new Singleton Park is “thrown open to the public on a Sunday”. Park Superintendent Daniel Bliss, who trained at Kew Gardens, began his ambitious plans to oversee the transformation of the park and garden.

1926

The Educational Garden officially open to the public on May 25th as a “collection of economic plants and British flora”.

1939 - 1945

Part of the Garden is turned over to growing vegetables for the Dig for Victory campaign. In 1944 over 1500 American troops were billeted under canvas in the wider park. After training on local beaches the troops left for the D-day landings on Omaha Beach, Normandy.

1960

By the sixties, the Educational Gardens employs 6 gardeners and 2 apprentices to tend to the increasingly important collection of plants.

1987

After sixty years the original wooden glasshouses had become unsafe. Over the next few years they are demolished and replaced with aluminium structures which survive to this day.

1990

A superb ornate eighteenth century pond and fountain dated from 1773 is moved from Castle Gardens to this site.

1991

The Educational Gardens are renamed as the "Botanical Gardens"

1994

Run by a group of volunteers, the Friends of the City of Swansea Botanical Complex , FCSBC, is founded with the aim of supporting the work of the Botanical Complex.

2006

With financial help from FCSBC, Tŷr Blodau building is opened. This purpose built education and visitor centre hosts a programme of activities related to horticulture and wildlife as well as being available for hire.

For more details about hiring see below.

2017

FCSBC raises funds and opens an extension to the Botanical Gardens. The Wildflower/ Wellbeing Garden is the latest page in the Gardens’s story – it is a “little slice of wild” created among the more formal setting of the traditional Botanical Gardens.