Darts Hill Garden Park

Darts Hill Garden Park is a small, stubbornly lovely pocket of cultivated wilderness tucked into South Surrey. Trails weave through a historic 7.5-acre core and spill across 22.5 acres of mature trees, rhododendron groves and purposeful plantings, many of them carefully labelled for the curious. Volunteers greet you at the gate; the entrance asks only a donation and a moment of attention. On a hot day the shaded paths feel like walking inside a cooled greenhouse. An artist in residence and an intimate summer concert series add surprise — quiet performances rather than spectacle — so the place reads as community garden, open-air salon, and living museum all at once. Locals come to picnic, photograph blooms and study plant varieties; visitors arrive hungry for a secret garden experience. It is not polished municipal parkland but a lovingly tended collection that carries the Darts family’s horticultural curiosity forward, a neighborhood anchor where the pace slows and small delights announce themselves in petals and labels.