Bramdean House

About Bramdean House

This is a real plantsman’s garden, full of interest all year round.

The fine eighteenth century red-brick house is protected from the road by a sizeable undulating cloud hedge of yew and box. To the north of the house, five acres of garden slope up through the exemplary mirror-image herbaceous borders, planted with over one hundred genera and reaching their peak in June with nepetas, geraniums, tradescantias, Clematis x diversifolia ‘Hendersonii’ and galegas, followed by yellows and then the russets of late summer.

The central path to the wrought-iron gates of the walled garden, filled with a well-ordered abundance of fruit and vegetables, a special collection of old-fashioned sweet peas and a mass of herbaceous flowers. Beyond a second wrought-iron gate lies the orchard with its curving tapestry hedge of alternating box and yew, flowering cherries, and fruit trees underplanted with daffodils. Trees on the eastern side include Ginkgo biloba, Maytenus boaria and Davidia involucrata, magnolias and fine specimens of Staphylea colchica AGM.

Spring brings to the garden carpets of aconites, crocuses and other early bulbs, autumn a large collection of tender and hardy nerines. A small arboretum includes rare flowering cherries from Japan underplanted with chalk-loving wild flowers.