Orangery Gardens

The Orangery Gardens have recently been completed and are establishing into a woodland garden, blending into formal flower beds.

Our pair of Betula utilis jacquemontii, Himalayan birch trees trees are humble in nature, but in winter are striking structures with their paper-white bark. The planting here is designed to fade gently from woodland into formal planting, respecting the history of the giant sequoia trees and the hall itself. Ferns and holly slowly blend into Stachys byzantina, “Lamb’s-ear” and echinops, also known as globe thistle plants. The globe thistle are fascinating, the body of a thistle that blooms into a rich, blue spherical flower.