[1] It was opened in March 1890 and was founded by Governor William Brandford-Griffith and Dr. John Farrell Easmon, a Sierra Leonean medical doctor.

[2] Before the garden was established, it was the site of a sanatorium built in 1875 for Gold Coast government officials.

During the governorship of William Brandford-Griffith, a Basel missionary and Jamaican Moravian, Alexander Worthy Clerk, supervised the clearing of land around the sanatorium to start the Botanic Department.

He said the private investment could revitalize the Gardens and enhance its tourism potential to improve business in the area.

[7] One can find in the garden tree species such as silk cotton (ceiba pentandra), mahogany, cedar, silver oak, and many more.