Visitor Information

Martineau Gardens is a beautiful community garden and a charity, located two miles from Birmingham City Centre. An oasis for wildlife, a haven of tranquillity or simply a great destination for an outdoor adventure, there are two and a half acres of organically managed landscape for you to explore.

Garden Highlights

• an orchard growing figs, mulberries,grapes and apples
• vegetable plot and herb beds
• a woodland home (with SLINC status) to Pipistrelle bats, badgers and birds and many species of fungi
• nature trail (new!)
• formal garden with unusual trees and shrubs, including a Lyonothamnus floribundus and Colletia cruciata
• children’s play area
• sales area selling plants and homemade jams made from the fruits of the garden
• hot house
• wildflower meadows
• bird hide
• ponds
• beehives
• earth oven

Refreshments

There’s no café, yet hot and cold drinks are served from the Pavilion for which a donation is appreciated. Indoor and outdoor seating is available and you can bring a picnic.

Access

All the buildings are reasonably accessible to people in wheelchairs. Depending on the weather, parts of the Gardens may only be accessible to the determined.

Opening Times:

Open all year. Monday to Saturday, 10am – 4pm. Closed on public holidays

Admission:

Free entry

How to Find Us

27 Priory Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, B5 7UG

Located opposite the Priory Hospital, and 5 minutes from the Midlands Arts Centre (the MAC) and Warwickshire County Cricket Ground

By Road

On the B4217 (Priory Road), 2 miles from Birmingham City Centre.
There is a small carpark and sheltered bike rack available

By Bus

Numbers 1, 45, 47, 61, 63, X62, X64

Dogs

Please keep dogs on a lead and clean up after them