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About Vaynor Park
Having opened for a number of years for the NGS the owners have decided to open on a private pre-ticketed basis only and to provide a special event opening with a talk and private guided tour by Kate Corbett-Winder.
Vaynor Park is approached through parkland planted with medieval oaks, beech trees and Victorian cedars. It has been home to the Corbett Winder family since 1720 where generations have tended the garden and surrounding Vaynor Estate. The red brick gabled house has extraordinary panoramic views far into Shropshire and mid Wales. Laid out in the 1850s when the 17th century house was expanded and remodelled, the five acre garden has formal herbaceous borders sheltered by south facing walls that flank a far reaching lawn once used for archery by the Victorian generation.
The terraced garden is sheltered by red brick walls that host climbing roses and tender shrubs, vines and clematis while in the wood garden, rambling roses scale the Douglas firs planted one hundred years ago. There is a box edged rose parterre, laid out in 1867 which now contains a mix of old varieties and new English roses, underplanted with cosmos and nicotianas. The acid soil is ideal for the banks of blue hydrangeas that flower from August through the autumn, while the inner courtyard is planted with lime green paniculata and Annabel hydrangeas.
There are topiary yew birds, clipped box buttresses and spires that bring formality to the looser plantings of anemones, phloxes and grasses – as well as a box edged herb garden close to the kitchen door. In the orangery, jasmine and plumbago scramble up the terracotta walls beside displays of pelargoniums. Herbaceous borders, woodland garden, Victorian Archery Lawn and stone urns. Rose parterres, Rambling roses, Hydrangeas.
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