Slape Manor

About Slape Manor

Slape Manor was taken over by the current owners in late 2020 and is now in a process of transformation overseen by Landscape Designers Lulu Urquhart and Adam Hunt in collaboration with Head Gardener Hannah Gardner and the Slape Manor garden team with owner Tarsha Finney. Explored as part of their Best in Show winning Rewilding Britain Garden at The Chelsea Flower Show 2022, Slape Manor has been an influential project in the development of Urquhart and Hunt’s understanding of the relationship between garden design, the practice of gardening through time, complex ecologies and biodiversity at a landscape scale.

Slape Manor is a river valley garden. It sits between a SSI designated ancient alderwood forest and the River Brit. It features a 19th century woodland, an early 20th century Italianate sunken garden, and a revived walled kitchen garden. New work for 2022/23 includes complex woodland planting, over 7 hectares of local West Dorset provenance wildflower meadows, a controlled beaver release, lakes, river front, new orchards and a kitchen garden under restoration.

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Slape Manor is one of the inspirations behind Chelsea 2022 Gold medal winning and Best in Show Garden designed by Urquhart and Hunt with Rewilding Britain.