NORTHERN GARDENS
PRODUCTIVE GARDENS
Intensively cultivated throughout the year, these once met almost all the needs of the Tremayne family and their guests at the Big House. Now the restored glasshouses within the walled gardens continue to indulge the Victorian passion for exotic fruit, while the Vegetable Garden team seeks quality and flavour from its cornucopia of traditional varieties, in the quest to introduce them to a wider audience increasingly interested in food and how it is produced.
PLEASURE GROUNDS
First laid out over 200 years ago, the pleasure grounds conceal an unusual range of romantic structures and unexpected features including New Zealand and Italian gardens, summerhouses and pools, a superb herbaceous border, a rocky ravine, a crystal grotto and a wishing well. These are linked by a network of walks lined by a magnificent collection of Hooker Rhododendrons, Camellias and many other unusual historic flowering shrubs, in bloom for six months of every year.
