Singleton Botanical Gardens

It’s stunning — probably my favourite park in Swansea. Plus — there are often lovely events (music/​theatre) in the summer.
You can also buy exotic plants there. It’s a Swansea must!

Such a lovely place to go and relax.
The place is always clean and the vegetable patch is amazing: I have never seen such health vegetable.
«Friends of the Garden» are also very welcoming
Really worth a look.

The botanical garden are a real gem situated in a beautiful park. They are a little oasis of calm, somewhere to look at beautiful plants and contemplate life. There are some greenhouses with exotic plants and lots of borders full of nature’s finest. They sometimes have plant sales. The bontanical gardens are the Sketty side of the park so it’ best to enter through that gate. You can also take the opportunity to enjoy the rest of Singleton park.

A nice relaxing place to visit. I used to walk around the gardens after a hard day at university, and it never failed to calm me down. Many great plants packed into a small space, with some greenhouses for the more exotic plants. The only gripe I would have is that the cacti house is a little neglected.
The tags say boating, but there isn’t boating in the botanical gardens. Bushgirl didn’t really write about the botanical gardens.

Yes, a nice place to visit, right next to Swansea University. A very pleasant park and gardens to walk in and the botanical glass houses are interesting to wander through. I liked seeing the coffee plants best — I drink coffee every day but never knew what the plant looked like! I sometimes go there just to take photos, especially of the tame squirrels — they will take food from your hand if you are patient. Once or twice I’ve seen robins and chaffinches taking food held out on someone’s palm too.

The botanical gardens are just a small part of what makes up the entirety of Singleton Park.
Singleton Park is an excellent park. It cascades down the hill from Sketty down to Oystermouth Road (basically the sea). It’s large, sprawling and esoteric.
There’s a small stonehenge-​y bit near the top by Uplands, there’s the botanical gardens which are detailed and intricate, there’s massive expanses of pure green grass looking over Swansea Bay, and towards the bottom there is the play area complete with lake, pedal boats and pubs. There are more features that roll along the vast swathes of greenery that I’ll leave you to discover yourself.
This park has everything really, and bags of personality. Big events are staged here in the summer too — I saw Motorhead here when I was 15, but they also host big dance music events which get very messy (in the way that people who enjoy dance music like).
A beautiful place full of surprises. Take a stroll and see which side of Singleton Park you like best.