Have a wintery walk. Stroll under the stars at southwest London’s famous botanic garden. There’s a winter lights trail that brightens up the evening skies as the trees get drenched in jewel-like colors. Warm up during the walk with a hot chocolate or a spiced winter drink from street food vendors.

Kew is filled with all manner of gardens: rose gardens, Japanese gardens, grass gardens. However, their most impressive hortological exhibit has to be the Great Broad Walk Borders, apparently 'the longest herbaceous borders in the country' which lead visitors down a trail of colour and scents for 320 metres.

With 300 acres of green space dotted with rare plants, Victorian glasshouses, a Chinese pagoda and a treetop walkway, Kew Gardens is unlike anywhere else. This world-leading botanic garden is captivating any time of year. Right now, it’s a crunchy, autumnal paradise; its innovative annual Christmas lights trail is coming soon. The newly restored Temperate House is a horticulturalist’s delight, home to encephalartos woodii, one of the rarest plants in the world, that outlived the dinosaurs.