Meet the woodlanders
Here, the spirit of George Fergusson Wilson’s original garden lives on, remaining true to his ethos of ‘growing difficult plants successfully’ in a naturalistic style.
We make the most of the moist soil and light shade to grow choice woodland plants, including showy herbaceous and bulbous plants for impact.
The woodland floor is stocked with an immense variety of hostas, primulas, trilliums and many other woodlanders which thrive in the naturally high water table and fertile soil.
As in natural woodland, lower-growing trees and shrubs fill in the middle layer of vegetation, and in spring, camellias, rhododendrons and magnolias such as M. kobus, M. stellata ‘Scented Silver’ and M. ‘Peter Dummer’ provide glorious spring colour over carpets of bulbs.
