Lloyd's Botanical Garden, Darjeeling

Lloyd's Botanical Garden, also called the Darjeeling Botanical Garden, was set up in 1878 on 40 acres of land given by William Lloyd, whose name it carries, as a hill outpost of the Calcutta Botanical Garden. It occupies an open slope just below the Eden Sanatorium, bounded by Cart Road and Victoria Road to the north and by Jail Road and Hari Ghose Road to the south.

The collection features bamboos, oaks, magnolias, rhododendrons, arisaemas, cotoneasters and wild geraniums from Darjeeling, Sikkim and nearby regions, together with exotic species, and stands of tall Cryptomeria, Bucklandia and alder forest tangled with lianas. A conservatory displays some 150 species of cacti and succulents, and native orchids from the Singalila Ridge form a notable collection. The garden also sends plants, seeds and specimens of the temperate Himalaya around the world. Of its four gates, Gate 1 is reached by a short, steep road from the taxi stand and Gate 4 opens off Victoria Road.