Upton Castle Gardens

About the garden

Upton Castle Gardens is a privately owned, listed historic garden and arboretum. The picturesque medieval castle remains a family home and provides a spectacular setting for terraces of herbaceous borders, a traditional rose garden, a Georgian walled garden and the more intimate chapel environs. The gardens extend into the less formal planting of the deeply wooded valley that sweeps down to the Cleddau estuary.

The sheltered, warm maritime climate allows plants and trees to thrive. Woodland walks descend through the dappled light of ancient trees to atmospheric saltmarshes. The arboretum is renowned for magnolias, camellias and rhododendrons, and there are many champion trees, including Magnolia campbellii, Magnolia delavayi, Liriodendron tulipifera and Davidia involucrata, along with the millennial yew.

The walled garden features fruit and vegetables in a traditional kitchen garden style, a hedged herb garden and a new border dedicated to plants that attract bees and butterflies.