Sandringham Gardens

About the garden

Owned by

King Charles III

New for 2024: Nestled within 20,000 acres of wider estate, Sandringham is the private house and gardens of King Charles III. The 60-acre garden comprises lakes, streams, formal gardens and long winding paths among highly ornamental trees and shrubs. The gardens have been extensively altered since 1862 and further changes continue today, as His Majesty’s passion for horticulture has a great influence on how the garden develops.
 
The garden is made up of many different areas such as The Shrubbery, designed and created in the 1960s by Sir Eric Savill for the late Queen Elizabeth II. This area features a collection of rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias and magnolias, most of which Savill brought from Windsor Great Park. During the 1940s, Geoffrey Jellicoe was commissioned to design The North Garden, which is a formal hierarchy of hedges and pleached trees with informal planting within.
 
Going further back into the late 19th century, Prince Edward, the future King Edward VII, commissioned landscape garden designer William Broderick Thomas and James Pulham to create the two large lakes, which feature rockeries, waterfalls and The Nest that overlooks the upper lake. King Charles III, looks to continue this horticultural legacy by embarking on new projects within the gardens at Sandringham.
 
Most notably, the new Topiary Garden on the West side of the house will create an entirely new aspect to the existing garden layout. Designed to create intrigue and showcase a different horticultural principle to that of the current gardens at Sandringham. In and around other areas of the garden, His Majesty has also added sweeping borders filled with highly ornamental shrubs amongst newly planted rare and interesting trees to create that future canopy.

Please note: The garden has EV charging points. Parking charges apply.