Privately owned garden open during the summer. The park and garden used to belong to Beatrix Potter’s uncle and the walled garden there is thought to be the inspiration for the kitchen garden in The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Charming garden recreated as closely as possible to its original layout, mostly flowers with some vegetables and espaliered fruit trees.
Small groups welcome to visit by arrangement under the Natural England Open Access Scheme or on a NGS Open Day. The walled garden was reconstructed from scratch by Philippa Lambert with greenhouse, potting shed and quadripartite design arranged as a decorative potager,
The 17th century gardens include a cherry garden, a lavender parterre and pleached hornbeam hedges. The Orangery Kitchen Garden boasts one of the oldest orangeries in England and now serves as the café.
A grand new layout of gardens surrounds the castle, including a walled kitchen garden, an ornamental garden of fruit and vegetables. The café is in the orangery designed by Joseph Paxton.
The garden dates back to the same period as the house, built around 1759. It is under a slow process of regeneration, containing a small orchard of heritage varieties of apple, a fruit garden developed with the help of NFG (Northern Fruit Group), a demonstration beehive through the Harrogate & Ripon Beekeeping Association and a limited area of organic vegetable production is under the management of the head gardener.
Walled on only two sides with flint and brick walls, but laid out with great charm in the traditional manner with apple tunnels and a central dipping pond. Plant centre and coffee shop.
Series of four walled gardens with Heritage fruit and vegetable collections, glasshouses designed by Paxton, pineapple pit growing pineapples, frame yard, melon ground, peach house, citrus house, bee boles & back sheds, which have been enthusiastically restored to 19th century productiveness.
Ornamental yet productive kitchen garden set within a moat. Herbaceous borders and tunnels of sweet peas, runner beans and gourds.
Set against the backdrop of Helmsley Castle, the 5 acre garden, originally built in 1756, has benefited from 15 years of restoration. The garden is a registered charity providing horticultural therapy to the local community. The garden has a range of areas, including organic vegetable and fruit. Restored Victorian glasshouses, with vines growing in the Vinehouse café.
The 18th-century, 61⁄2-acre kitchen garden is currently being restored, there are numerous glasshouses, pit-houses and frames and a magnificent Wyatt orangery which has been restored.
