[1] The garden is located in the Cathedral Road–Anna Salai junction, opposite the American Consulate, on the erstwhile Drive-in Woodlands Hotel.

More than 500 species of plants are being grown in the area, in addition to the 80 trees that were already in existence during the development of the park, some of them being more than 100 years old.

The garden houses some of the popular exotic flora and rare plant species, medicinal and aromatic herbs.

After almost two decades, the restaurant ended its operation on 12 April 2008, and through a High Court order after a prolonged legal battle, the land was handed over to the government,[6] where it planned to set up the botanical garden, a research centre and a green house for developing rare species of medicinal and non-medicinal plants and flowers.

Twenty-five thematic gardens, including herbal, aromatic, maze and cascade adorn every corner of the park.

The garden boasts several exotic herbal species and 90-odd spiral-shaped and multi-branched miniature trees grown in containers.

The aroma garden acts as a welcoming greenhouse for winged visitors, with species like parijatham and pavalamalli (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis) found to flock the place in bulk.

An amphitheatre with concrete benches and covered by ferns has been built on the rear side of garden to host social and cultural functions.

This has created maintenance problem, whereby there are complaints that the cinema shooting crews made a dent in the park's salubrious environs by damaging tender plants.