CHELSEA PHYSIC GARDEN

It famously hosts one of the world’s most celebrated gardening festivals, the Chelsea Flower Show, each May, but this upmarket suburb is also home to the city’s largest botanic garden, which is a whopping 344 years old. You’ll find as many as 5000 different species of plants here, many of which are edible or have medicinal benefits. It’s a great family day trip, and kids will love smelling the unusual plants in the garden’s greenhouses. They even haveh one that smells like chocolate! T TIP Entry to the garden is $17.30 – book in a advance at chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk. N NEAREST TUBE STATION Sloane Square.