The bustle of Cambridge and university life is all around but that’s part of the garden’s charm.
You can lose yourself in its academically-inspired borders, sheltered lake and varied glasshouse rooms and enjoy the fact that a glass-fronted office block is peeking in between the mature trees.
The garden is large enough to lose the thrum of traffic, with a lake half lost in trees and partly bordered by a mazy rock-garden as its centrepiece.
The heritage greenhouses display flora from different climatic zones. A small stream winds between boggy planting and leads to a series of Bee Borders. There are wild flower and grass meadows.
The current site dates from 1846 but it feels modern and always evolving. The best bit: Cambridge is all around you but a world away.