One-hour long public guided tour at 1pm. Meet at the entrance to the Dorothy Fox Education Centre, at the top of the slope from the Thompson Road gates, off Ecclesall Road. There’s no need to book. You can just turn up.

All tours include a range of sites in the Gardens with a special monthly focus. For May we’ll be focusing on Earthshot, an ambitious initiative aiming to galvanise change and help to repair our planet over the next ten years. We’ll be exploring how the Botanical Gardens contribute to the Earthshot goals of protecting and restoring nature, cleaning our air, and fixing our climate. See how the Gardens can inspire action in your own garden.

This tour was devised by our curator Ian Turner and is also available as a digital self-guided walk.

We encourage people taking the tour to make a £3 donation to the Gardens.

Aesculus indica ‘Sydney Pearce’ - a great tree for pollinators. Photo by Sheila Rayson