About Poison Garden
Step into the world's deadliest botanical collection at Alnwick Garden, where fascinating guided tours reveal the sinister secrets of toxic plants that can harm and even kill.
What's nearby
- Weddings and Events at Alnwick Garden next door
- The Treehouse Restaurant next door
Distances as the crow flies, via Google
Photos
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Facilities
Opening hours
- Monday
- 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Tuesday
- 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Wednesday
- 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Thursday
- 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Friday
- 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Saturday
- 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Sunday
- 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Current hours may differ from the usual schedule above (e.g. holidays) — check Google Maps for today's hours.
What visitors say
This is the best £1 you can spend anywhere. Our guide was sensational (sadly didn’t get her name!) You do need to pre-book your time slot but so worth it. Absolutely fascinating learning about many UK plants that can cause some serious damage to you! Highly recommended
· via Google
We visited the poison garden today and our guide ,Tracy, was fantastic. She was very knowledgeable and had a great humour. We had a fantastic time and learned a lot about poison plants which might come useful one day...you never know ;-)
· via Google
Tom is an exceptional tour guide - enthusiastic and extremely knowledgable! It was incredibly interesting & very fun. I wish there was an option to do a longer tour covering more plants! I was gutted when it was over. Please give Tom a bonus!
· via Google
Really intresting place to have a tour of. I never realised there were so many plants - even native to the UK ones - that could give you such a debilitatingly miserable death. Grim in some ways, but very interesting.
· via Google
At a glance
- Address
- The Alnwick Garden, Greenwell Road, Alnwick Get directions
- Category
- Garden Centres & Home
- Guest rating
- 4.6 / 5 (25 reviews)
- Suitable for
- All Ages
- Suggested visit
- 2-3 hours
- Setting
- Outdoor
- Destination
- Alnwick