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The Master's Garden is located between Temple Church and the Master's House, the residence of the Master of the Temple at the Temple Church. Reached by a flight of steps from Church Court, the L-shaped garden is on a raised plateau due to its position over the C17th catacombs, which were created adjacent to the church in order to provide more burial space. Damage by WWII bombing resulted in damage to the Master's House and the loss of a number of mature trees and other plants in the garden. The garden's layout today dates from post-war renovation, and the planting reflects the fact that the soil is free-draining due to its position over the catacombs, with plants chosen for their ability to well withstand dry conditions.

The site is part of the extensive Dulwich Estate. The Mill Pond stands near a busy road intersection in a small plot of land surrounded by railings and abuts the playing fields of Dulwich College. Pond Cottages, a row of picturesque C18th weather-boarded timber houses, were probably built to serve the tile kiln that was in operation here until the late C18th. Bricks and roof tiles were made in the C17th and C18th, the clay pit that provided the raw material later filled with water to become the pond. It is one of the few remaining traces of the River Effra stream system in Southwark. It was named after a windmill that had stood on the other side of College Road, demolished by the College in 1814/15. South of the Mill Pond and Pond Cottages is a small private garden with a catalpa planted in memory of George Clout (d.1962), the Estates Bailiff to the Dulwich College Estates from 1914-1957. The garden has railings to College Road and is laid out with lawn, hedges.

Once the site of a private house with a formal garden and walled kitchen garden, it was later given to Hayes & Harlington UDC and in 1961 it was established as Hayes Botanic Garden. It was extended in 1990 and renamed The Norman Leddy Memorial Garden in the 1990s, after Hillingdon's former Assistant Director of Parks who died in 1993. The garden has a fine collection of exotic trees and shrubs, with a pond, bog garden and woodland.

The Old Burial Ground was laid out on the edge of Uxbridge village in 1576, and is now surrounded by busy roads. It closed to burials in 1855 and was made into a public garden. Most of the gravestones were moved to the perimeter with a few chest tombs and gravestones remaining in the grass. A drinking fountain was erected in the garden in 1898, and later a War Memorial,

In 1904 the area here was mostly fields and Brentfield to the east was then known as Dog Lane. By 1935 the site was surrounded by housing development, but the Old Orchard is tucked away, accessed by a path between houses from Stonebridge Park. On the site are mature pear trees presumably from the former orchard, as well as birch and sycamore trees.

The Oval is a lozenge of garden laid out between a crescent-shaped parade of Mock-Tudor shops built in 1933, laid out as part of the New Ideal Homesteads' Marlborough Park Estate on what had previously been farmland. The parade faces a crescent of residential houses across the garden, which is laid to grass with cut beds, ornamental trees and tarmac paths with grass verges. The beds are planted with roses and a circular central bed, also planted with roses, is encircled by a tarmac path with wooden seats.

Windsor Terrace or The Oval was land owned by St Bartholomew's Hospital that was leased to Shoreditch Borough Council at 1s per annum and maintained as an asphalt playground. Preserved under the London Squares and Enclosures (Preservation) Act of 1906, in 1928 the unenclosed site contained 'a few trees', now well-grown horse chestnuts. Until re-landscaping took place in 2008 it was a largely paved area laid out with seats, some planting in raised areas and concrete planters.

The Pagoda is a 3-storey Chinoiserie pavilion built in c.1763-80 as a summerhouse for the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, whose property Montague House, demolished 1815, was located at some distance away near the Ranger's House on Blackheath. The Pagoda was designed by Sir William Chambers; after the Buccleuchs left Montague House it was leased, with Princess Caroline of Brunswick an early tenant. The gardens to The Pagoda House were laid out in the style of Gertrude Jekyll in the 1920s.

Abingdon Street Gardens, also known as College Green, was laid out in the 1960s when C18th houses along Abingdon Street were demolished after WWII. The land was once part of the Old Palace Yard of the Palace of Westminster. A strip of lawn bisected by a path, the Green contains Henry Moore's sculpture 'Knife Edge Two Piece' (1967). To the north is the C14th Jewel Tower with a fragment of moat and medieval quay, beyond which is another remnant of Old Palace Yard, laid out as a simple lawn with 2 mature plane trees and a memorial Portland stone statue of George V by Sir William Reid Dick, set on an imposing base designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1947). This area of garden abuts the rear of Westminster Abbey's octagonal C13th Chapter House. It is overlooked from the south by two fine C18th stone-fronted houses in Palace Yard.

The importance of the Palace of Westminster as royal residence and seat of government dates back to medieval times. The oldest building today is the C11th Westminster Hall and the adjacent New Palace Yard has existed since that time, now laid out as a garden in commemoration of The Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977. The Palace of Westminster and Houses of Parliament that exist today date in the main from the mid C19th rebuilding, when Black Rod's Garden was also created. Reserved for private parliamentary use this garden adjoins Victoria Tower Gardens from which it is separated by railings and hedges. The Parliamentary estate also includes Speaker's Green by Westminster Bridge and Cromwell Green between Old Palace Yard and New Palace Yard, which both originated as medieval courtyards.

The Paragon is a crescent of Georgian houses linked by colonnades, designed by architect Michael Searles. The houses are fronted by a private roadway and crescent-shaped communal garden, which was provided for the private use of the residents. Abutting the public open land of Blackheath, this remains as a private semi-circular lawn, gently mounded in the centre, with a scattering of trees and shrubs, including two notable mature horse chestnuts.

The Pavilion is a rare and important example of the late work of Oliver Hill, a leading English architect of the mid C20th. It was built for Mr and Mrs Goldetz and is one of only three post-war houses designed by Hill. His design reflects the interest at that time in C18th Garden Pavilions. The house is set to the rear of the site, which has numerous well-grown trees.