The Botanical Gardens are now open daily, between 10.00am and 4.00pm

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Botanical Gardens are open BUT Plant Shop is CLOSED

  • Friends of the Botanical Gardens Committee has made the decision to close the plant shop from September and hope that this will only be for a few weeks. We have to do all that can be done to help Swansea come out of lockdown. 


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  • The Botanical Gardens are now open BUT the Plant Shop is CLOSED

The new look Plant Shop is NOW CLOSED for a short while.

A one way system

Social Distance Rules

Social Distance Rules

Entrance will be limited in number and there will be a one-way system in operation around the plant

Entrance will be limited in number and there will be a one-way system in operation around the plant display tables. 

Social Distance Rules

Social Distance Rules

Social Distance Rules

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We are following strict social distancing rules, visitors to the Botanical Gardens can, once again, purchase plants. 

Take precautions

Social Distance Rules

Great plant displays

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It is the responsibility of every visitor to take sensible COVID-19 precautions as advised by the Welsh Government.

Great plant displays

Come and see our Tillandsias - Airplants

Great plant displays

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The plant shop will open Saturdays throughout September and Wednesdays until December. 10am until 2pm.

Card Payments Only Please

Come and see our Tillandsias - Airplants

Come and see our Tillandsias - Airplants

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We have redesigned our shop, Don't keep it to yourself, let folks know.

Card purchases only please.

Come and see our Tillandsias - Airplants

Come and see our Tillandsias - Airplants

Come and see our Tillandsias - Airplants

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Customers have questions, we have the answers. There will be volunteers on hand to direct visitors and offer advice.  

Read about the history of the old glasshouses

CLICK HERE to Find out more on the history blog

History

1919

1919

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

1919

1919

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

1919

1939 - 1945

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

1939 - 1945

1939 - 1945

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

1939 - 1945

1960

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


1987

1939 - 1945

1960

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

1990

1990

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


1991

1990

1990

The Educational Gardens are renamed as the "Botanical Gardens"


1994

1990

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

2006

1994

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

2006

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.

 


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Friends of the City of Swansea Botanical Complex

The Botanical Gardens, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 9DU, United Kingdom


FCSBC is a registered charity No. 1052032