When travelling on holiday I always make a point of visiting a city’s botanical garden, many of which have small collections of cacti and succulents.
I am a regular visitor to RHS Wisley which has a desert house with a modest number of large, well-kept plants. The World Garden at Lullingstone Castle in Kent is the home of the BCSS’s Patron, Tom Hart Dyke, who has built an impressive collection of cacti and succulents, nearly all of which have been donated.
I have also made special visits to the Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, Belfast Botanic Garden, and the Winter Garden at Duthie Park in Aberdeen (which holds the National Collection of aloes and gasterias).
In 2018 I compiled a directory for the BCSS of all UK botanical gardens which held collections of cacti and succulents and this has morphed into a more up-to-date version which you can view HERE.
Photographs
Cactaceae
Other succulents
Collections