About
Ewanrigg Botanical Gardens is a National Parks-run garden outside Harare, known for its aloes and suited to a quiet day trip with a picnic or a braai. It holds a 4.1 rating from 108 Google reviews, and visitors find it lovely but tired.
The aloes are the reason to go. One visitor calls it one of the largest aloe collections in the world, and another who went while they were flowering found them wonderful. After a long dry spell the plants are less showy, though one reviewer still found plenty worth seeing and spotted a hamerkop and a pied kingfisher from the small restaurant, which served good food. Another puts the gardens about 45 kilometres from Harare, found the toilets clean, and stayed on for sunset photographs.
Upkeep is the recurring theme. Several reviewers describe the place as run down and in need of care, one found the roads poor in places, and a pair who visited on a weekday afternoon in March had the grounds to themselves. Expect to pay an entrance fee per person on arrival.
Good to know
- Wheelchair-accessible car park
- Wheelchair-accessible entrance