Book Spetchley Park Gardens tickets & discover 4500 acres of gardens in Worcester
- Age Restrictions: Suitable for all ages
- Duration: Spend as long or as little onsite as you like
- Location: Spetchley Park Gardens, Spetchley, Worcester WR5 1RS
- Tickets include: Entry to the Gardens (The House is not open to the public)
Explore Spetchley's wild wonderland at Spetchley Park Gardens in Worcestershire
Just a few miles from Worcester, Spetchley Park Gardens is where nature throws off its formal gloves and dances freely through 30 acres of lush, living beauty. Think grand manors, honey-hued walls, and sweeping lawns that melt into serene lakes. But the real magic? It’s in the gardens.
Step beyond the stately house and into a world curated by plant-loving pioneers. The Berkeley family, who’ve called Spetchley home for over 400 years, have gathered rare and exotic specimens from across the globe. Thanks to the green-thumbed genius of Ellen Willmott in the early 1900s, the gardens burst with life - from towering hedges to delicate peonies, every turn is a new surprise.
- Gardener's Cottage: Once used by Edward Elgar when he visited the Berkeley family, enjoy a glimpse of the 19th century cottage
- The Borders: Stroll around the outside of the walled garden and explore the four borders, filled with fresh flowers for all plant-enthusiasts!
- Melon Yard: Situated in the Kitchen Garden, four original 'sunken greenhouses' sit in the gardens, once home to melons & pineapples - now, the Melon Yard provides shelter for a variety of beautiful flowers
- Kitchen Garden: See the bronze Ramsey stag that stands proudly at the centre of the Kitchen Garden
- Millennium Garden: Designed by the late John Berkeley & garden designer Veronica Adams to mark the new millennium, this part sub-tropical, part Italianate style garden provides colour through to late summer.
- Lovers' Walk & Apollo Statue: Lined by daffodils in the spring, visit the Apollo statue - the God of music, poetry, plague, oracles, sun, medicine, light and knowledge
- Fountain Gardens: Designed by Rose Berkeley & sister Ellen Willmott, discover the four outdoor 'rooms' that surround the central fountain
- Rose Lawn & Conservatory: Laid out in the 19th century and overlooked by 300 year old towering trees, the Rose Lawn features a majestic cedar whose lop-sided appearance is due to an encounter with a low flying American fighter plane
- Cork Lawn: Designed as a place for relaxation and quiet contemplation, explore the thatched summerhouse constructed in the 1840's, meander alongside the Garden Pool or view the American swamp
- New Lawn & Lake Walk: In spring, swathes of daffodils, many Spetchley’s very own, greet visitors and a collection of rowans Sorbus app. and crab apples Malus spp. burst into blossom later bearing brightly-coloured fruits into late summer and autumn
- Long Walk & Garden Pool: Head towards the current home of the Berkeley family and cross the pretty wrought-iron footbridge, all that remains of a moat which surrounded the original Tudor house!
- Copse: From shrubs and small trees to towering pines, this area has a different feel to the rest of gardens where visitors can soak up the rustling of the trees and birdsong echoing through the canopy above them
- Garden Cafe: Built in 1851 and located in what was once the estates old laundry, treat yourself to a great range of hot and cold food and drink in the stunning surroundings
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