Visiting the Gardens

Visitors to the Gardens will find something to interest them throughout the year. During the frosty days of January, the perfume of the witch hazels' strange spidery flowers filters through the Gardens, and gradually change to the flamboyant blooms of the spring flowering camellias, magnolias, rhododendrons and azaleas. These are followed by the heady scents of summer's flowering shrubs and herbaceous plants before the autumn season of fiery hues.

In 1997 the Gardens were included by English Heritage on the Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England for the value of the plant collections. These collections continue to be enhanced and developed, and now boast the largest Winter Garden of its kind in Europe, and the Gurkha Memorial Garden with an extensive collection of Nepalese plants.

Search the areas of the Gardens using the different boxes on the left hand side of your screen.

New All-Ability Path:

If you haven't visited us since the summer of 2010, you will be amazed by the stunning new all ability path overlooking the Himalayan Valley!