Enter the ballot (open exclusively to London Open Gardens ticket holders) for a chance to enjoy an introduction to zoo horticulture at London Zoo. The tour, on Friday 6 June from 10am-12pm, will focus on three key areas of the zoo: the herbaceous Butterfly Borders, and how the team aims to encourage visitors to plant pollinator friendly species in their own gardens; Tiger Territory, with a look at landscaping rationale for the zoo’s Sumatran tigers; and Monkey Valley, including the challenges that planting for these animals presents.
Your guide will be Ben Camps, Horticultural Team Leader at the Zoo.
Please view the Terms and Conditions below for more information before you enter the ballot, and note that you will need to have purchased a ticket to London Open Gardens 2025 before you enter. The tour entry does not include time to explore London Zoo outside the tour itself. If you wish to stay longer you will need to purchase a London Zoo entry ticket and re-enter the Zoo.
Terms and Conditions
- Entrants to the ballot must be 18 years old or over.
- Only one entry per person via this website, but each entry may request one or two tickets.
- Adults 18+ who win a place on the tour via the ballot may bring a child (min age 12) on the tour as their ‘plus one’, by requesting two tour tickets.
- You are required to purchase a London Open Gardens 2025 Weekend ticket to enter this ballot.
- Places on the tour are chosen randomly from those who have entered the ballot.
- The places chosen will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- The ballot is not open to employees of London Parks & Gardens or London Zoo, nor to their relatives.
- We will not pass your information on to any third parties; however, those selected for a place on the tour will have their details submitted for a basic security check.
- If you are selected for a place on the tour, you must take photographic ID with you (either a Passport or Driving Licence).
- Up to two places will be allocated per person as requested on the form.
- Places can only be used by the person(s) named in the ballot entry. You may not pass your place on to anyone else or change the names after the form has been submitted.
- Tours are subject to last-minute cancellation and/or changes in timing, should this occur, none of the organisers/parties involved can be held liable for any inconvenience or financial loss.
- Entries to the ballot will close on 12 May 2025 at 11.59pm.
- Selected participants will be notified by email from the LPG office. If you receive a notification you will be given 48 hours to confirm your availability along with necessary security information. Failure to confirm the required details in time will result in the loss of your place on the tour.
- If you do not hear from us by 22 May, your ballot entry has not been chosen.
