Visitors to the Botanical Gardens have raised a series of complaints online about the condition of the park.

While the park still carries a 3½ star rating on travel site TripAdvisor, a series of visitor reviews in recent months have labelled it “disappointing”.

One reviewer from Toronto gave the park a single star in May, writing: “Not properly taken care of and very run down and full of weeds. Buildings closed. I was hoping for spectacular flowers and shrubs and this we did not see much of.”

Another reviewer, from St Louis, praised the cafe in the park in a review written earlier this month, but expressed disappointment in the gardens themselves.

“The entire Island is a botanical garden, so I expected the actual ‘Botanical Garden’ to be amazing and lush with native plants. They were not — my backyard garden in St Louis more impressive.

“The gardens were small, weedy and not very well kept up. I realise that water is at a premium in Bermuda, perhaps that is part of the situation.”

Other recent reviews have said that the gardens “need work”, are a “mere shadow of its former self” and an “embarrassment to Bermuda”.

Not all of the recent reviews however were negative – one reviewer from Philadelphia gave the park five stars earlier this month, calling it a “wonderful oasis in the middle of a garden-obsessed Island”.