Hope Road
New Kingston
Kingston
Daily: 08:30-18:30
The Royal Botanical Gardens at Hope, popularly called Hope Gardens serves as a national attraction and is frequented by visitors from near and far. The Hope Gardens is a part of the 2000 acres of land originally owned by Major Richard Hope from whom it got its name.Two hundred acres of this land was obtained by the Government of Jamaica in 1880 and was originally established as a plant introduction and crop-testing facility for plants such as pineapple, cocoa, coffee and tobacco. The formal Botanical Gardens were laid out on approximately 60 acres of this land with the assistance of personnel from the Kew Gardens in England.
