Englefield House Garden

About Englefield House Garden

The garden at Englefield is enclosed by a handsome deer park, with magnificent views over the lake and surrounding countryside. It descends dramatically from the hill above the house through open woodland where mature native trees mix with Victorian conifers.

The woodland under planting began in 1936 with advice from Wallace & Barr and has continued ever since. Here are collections of camellia, rhododendron, eucryphia, acer, magnolia, cornus, davidia, azalea (many of them the nearly extinct Ghent varieties) and other unusual trees and shrubs. A grotto has lately been built at the top of the stream, lined with a mosaic of pinecones. There are drifts of daffodils and other spring and summer bulbs and wonderful autumn colour.

Grey stone balustrades and wide staircases, built in 1860 and dripping with climbing roses, enclose the lower terraces where there are formal plantings, mixed borders, roses, wide lawns, water features and small enclosed areas (some lately paved and pebbled). The lower terrace area was redesigned in the 1970s with help of Lanning Roper. A children’s garden with hidden jets of water from four small statues is fun for younger visitors.

A walled kitchen garden has been restored to produce many varieties of fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers (please note; access to the walled kitchen garden is only for groups that book in advance).
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