Isabella Plantation

Isabella Plantation was developed from the 1950s within Richmond Park's woodland and has since become one of London's most photographed seasonal spots, its azaleas and rhododendrons erupting into colour each April and May alongside carpets of bluebells. Streams and ponds thread through the plantings, giving it a naturalistic, almost fairy-tale quality that stands apart from the wider park's open deer country. Reviewers consistently single out the intensity of the spring bloom as the reason to plan a visit around this specific time of year.