The Walled Garden

The Walled Garden is tucked away to the west of the castle. Here, Queen Victoria took tea during her visit in 1867.

Many of the same great gardening traditions remain and flowers are still cut for the main house from the packed herbaceous borders.

Ornamental borders also co-exist alongside soft fruit and vegetable beds, surrounding the peach glass house. The most remarkable feature of the garden are the original Victorian iron poles, dripping with huge swags of crimson American pillar rambling roses and purple clematis.

Beneath the tunnel of colour and scent blow great swathes of grasses, lupins, geraniums, campanulas and euphorbias, creating a real colour palette!