Volunteers support our Gardens Team with the seasonal management and maintenance of the three gardened areas: the Terrace, Himalayan Garden and Walled Garden.

You’ll be located throughout the gardens, according to priorities, in whichever area requires assistance.

As you learn more about the gardens you may prefer one particular area over another.

Terrace

A high Victorian, Italianate formal garden, complete with C19 parterre created by Sir Charles Barry (1795 – 1860), complete with fountains, clipped yew and box, hornbeam stilt hedges, planting schemes, large-scale mixed flower borders, including the Archery Border, planted on a broadly sub-tropical theme with architectural plants.

Walled Garden

An ornamental and utilitarian garden of 3 acres, built in the 1750s and divided into two parts, with a productive kitchen garden, flower borders, apple orchard, meadow, frame yard & glasshouses (awaiting restoration) and Bothy tearoom. Experimental elements recently introduced to the kitchen garden include the environmentally responsible production of vegetable crops and re-invigoration of soil-borne ecosystems through the ‘no-dig’ systems, plus the recycling and processing of compostable green waste.

Himalayan Garden

Featuring a rock garden created for HRH Princess Mary’s rock garden in the 1930s, a naturalistic dell garden with waterfall and stream, woodland and bog gardens, containing a thematic plant collection; including trees and shrubs, rhododendrons, alpines and herbaceous plants from Asia – especially the Sino-Himalaya.