Borde Hill Garden

Head Gardener's Comment

Everyone from plant lovers to families is welcomed to enjoy the diverse range of flora including rare and exotic trees from China, Burma and South America, and the seasonal carpet of bluebells and wood anemones.

Borde Hill Garden holds no fewer than 82 ‘Champion’ trees in its collection and offers regular tours of these most prized specimens, some the largest of their kind to be seen anywhere in the UK and grown from the original seeds collected by Col Stephenson R Clarke and other great plant collectors while on their expeditions to China and the Himalayas.

The new tree trail leads visitors past these and other rare and prized specimens that grace Borde Hill.

The popular Italian Garden, now fully replanted, creates a vibrant focus to compliment one of Borde Hill’s highlights, the Rose Garden, created by RHS gold medallist Robin Williams in 1996 and recently augmented with award-wining Gold Standard varieties.

There’s always time to linger in the Grade II* listed landscape that embraces 17 acres of formal garden, created in the 1900’s by Colonel Stephenson R Clarke – great grandfather of Andrewjohn, Borde Hill’s present family resident.

Then explore the 200 acres of rolling mid-Sussex park and woodland set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty offering commanding views of the Sussex Weald overlooking the river Ouse valley