Meet the Head Gardener for a tour of Eltham Palace Gardens. Highlights inc tree peonies beginning to flower in the garden rooms, along with hellebores, scented shrubs, and early bulbs mingling throughout the Rock Garden and medieval moat. Spring tulip displays add further interest to the Tudor remains, all under the watchful eye of the C15 Great Hall, making for a peaceful, sensory evening stroll. Opens Saturday 18th April, pre-booking essential.
Meet the Head Gardener and members of their team for an exclusive evening tour. Bolsover Castle is an extraordinary C17 aristocratic retreat. Explore the Fountain Garden with its C17 Venus fountain, framed by period planting and fan‑trained fruit trees; wander the restored wall walk for sweeping views of the Vale of Scarsdale. Opens Wednesday 22nd April, pre-booking essential.
Explore Richmond Castle’s dramatic Contemporary Heritage Garden, designed in 2000 by Neil Swanson. Walled and contemplative, the garden features a parterre of sixteen topiary yews marking the imprisoned conscientious objectors of WWI, herbaceous borders with bold perennials like Echinacea and Helianthus, and fragrant climbers framed against sweeping views of the countryside beyond. Opens Thursday 11th June, pre-booking essential.
Audley End is a spectacular early C17 mansion set in an outstanding landscaped park. Stroll through a landscape designed and influenced by Capability Brown, later enhanced by William Sawry Gilpin. Highlights inc the intricately patterned Parterre laid out in 1832, restored in 1988, with shrubs, perennials, and annuals, plus an atmospheric organic Walled Kitchen Garden. Opens Thursday 18th June, pre-booking essential.
Boscobel House’s Royal Oak tree became a refuge for Charles II when he was fleeing for his life after his Civil War defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651. Discover a charming period garden complete with a winding willow tunnel. This delightful outdoor space invites visitors to meander through living features that echo the site’s heritage and family life. Opens Thursday 18th June, pre-booking essential.
Highlights inc the elegantly planted kitchen garden and glasshouses, the dramatic Queen Mother’s Garden designed by Penelope Hobhouse, a Jungle Moat with rare and unique exotic plants, and the sweeping herbaceous Broadwalk with its distinctive ‘Cloud Hedge’. Also, the large collection of dahlias are expected to be in full bloom. Opens Tuesday 30th June, pre-booking essential.
Meet the Head Gardener and members of their team for an exclusive evening tour of the gardens. Mount Grace Priory was the last of the great Yorkshire monasteries, founded in 1398. Wander the arts-and-crafts terraced gardens restored by Sir Lowthian Bell in the early C20, featuring rich, mature borders on the terraces and a stroll to the peaceful Monks’ Pond through a wildflower meadow. Opens Wednesday 1st July, pre-booking essential.
Join our Head Gardener and expert gardens team for an exclusive evening tour. Brodsworth Hall is a Victorian country house, built in the 1860s. Admire the restored formal parterre gardens with geometric beds filled in spring with tulips and violas, and summer displays of pelargoniums, cannas, and banana plants. Opens Wednesday 15th July, pre-booking essential.
Meet the Head Gardener and members of their team for an exclusive evening tour of the gardens. Experience grandeur in the French parterre gardens with ornamental terraces, ornamental box hedges, and vibrant floral bedding in summer. Don’t miss the monumental Perseus and Andromeda Fountain beside the Wilderness Gardens, where rhododendrons and wildflowers flourish in summer. Opens Saturday 15th August, pre-booking essential.