Vaynor Park

Spectacular five acre garden set in parkland with Medieval oaks. Stunning display of over 3000 tulips on long Victorian archery lawn flanked by herbaceous borders with Geums, Anemones, Erysiums, alliums, Lunaria and Hesperis. Woodland with rhododendrons inc forrestii, magnolias, euphorbias, Trilliums, Erythroniums and bluebells. Tulips in urns close to house contrast with clipped box and yew topiary.

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Mr & Mrs William Corbett-Winder

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. However, now the long terrace is planted with over 3,000 tulips which float above rectangles of grass that run the length of the garden, making a spectacular display in April and early May. In Spring the woodland garden brims with rhododendrons, including sinogrande and magnolias that bring early blossom. Below the stately Douglas Firs, euphorbias, trilliums, erythroniums and bluebells add more colour, while Solomon’s seal, dicentra, spring bulbs, ferns and camassia flower among the emerging ferns.
A variety of geums, anemones, erysiums, alliums, lunaria, and hesperis start to fill the herbaceous borders in April and further below in the fan shaped rose garden a succession of crocus, alliums, fritillaries and hyacinths flower in long grass behind the box edged beds. More colour comes from the tulips in urns and dolly tubs close to the house contrasting with the clipped box and yew topiaries.
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 and 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, a plumbago romps up the terracotta walls companionably beside a variety of pelargoniums Herbaceous borders Woodland garden Victorian Archery Lawn and stone urns Rose parterres, Rambling roses, Hydrangeas. Woodland garden. Victorian Archery Lawn and stone urns.

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Location details

Vaynor Park,
Welshpool,
Powys,
SY21 8QE

Directions to Vaynor Park
Leave Berriew going over bridge & straight up the hill on the Bettws Rd. Entrance to Vaynor Park is on R ¼m from speed derestriction sign.