Orangery Gardens

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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.

Globe Thistle

Echinops bannaticus

A clump-forming perennial with upright, grey, woolly stems and spiny, hairy, grey-green divided leaves. Spherical blue-grey to blue flowerheads, up to 5cm across, are produced in mid and late summer

Botanical Details

Foliage

Deciduous

Habit

Clump Forming

Position

Full sun

Maximum Height

1.5 metres

Maximum Spread

1 metre

Family

Asteraceae

Genus

Echinops can be annuals, biennials or perennials with simple or pinnately lobed, spiny leaves and spherical blue or whitish flower-heads

	Stem	Flower	Foliage	Fruit
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

The new courtyard by bedrooms 19,20 and 21 is worth viewing (to the left as you face The Orangery) but please be courteous to the staying guests.
The trees were planted very recently. Acer palmatum, the Japanese maple tree, will give vibrant reds in winter while the Malus toringo, the Japanese crab apple tree will offer up small, golden crab apples.