The Garden at Ham House and Garden

As the light begins to mellow, and the air grows crisp, warm bursts of colour and fresh floral delights make autumn the perfect time to enjoy Ham’s quiet beauty. Stroll through the atmospheric 17th century walled garden, to discover scenery that’s ideal to recharge your batteries.

Ham’s 17th century walled kitchen garden is productive and stunning all year round. Fruit, vegetables and flowers make for colourful companions - then we use organic principles to encourage a wide range of wildlife and plants to thrive here.

In the farthest corner of the grounds, Ham House’s Wilderness Garden is protected by a mile of high hornbeam hedge. Take a meandering walk, find your own place to stop and enjoy the woodland drifts and colourful plantings.

See Ham House in a new light in autumn with a free guided walk, a simple stroll along winding paths in the gardens or by heading out into our neighbouring countryside to pick up a longer trail.

Head Gardener Rosie Fyles has revealed a new display within Ham’s formal gardens. Discover a changing pageant of colour and scent as a succession of 500,000 bulbs and wildflowers transform vast manicured lawns, making them a delight for nature and people throughout the warmer months.

Ham House Garden is a formal historic garden cared for with nature at its heart. We have gardened using organic principles for over a decade and we find gardening for nature doesn’t have to be complicated. Here are some of the simple things we do to encourage nature to thrive.

The Ham House Garden team has made a breakthrough in the battle against the destructive box moth caterpillar, giving a beacon of hope to gardeners.

Ham House’s formal Cherry Garden is a spectacular diamond pattern box parterre, filled with lavender and hundreds of metres of clipped topiary. So when an eagle-eyed visitor spotted an unusual greenish yellow caterpillar on a box hedge, Head Gardener Rosie Fyles was naturally concerned.

Browse the recipe sites this summer and you’ll see salads of all shapes and sizes making a splash. It's a wonderful way to celebrate summer – but it’s almost certainly not new. Join us in Ham House's kitchen garden where we're celebrating over 300 years of daily salads. Step into a living salad bowl of colour, texture and taste as it would have been all those years ago.

For the inside track on this rare garden gem, originally created by the Duchess of Lauderdale, we highly recommend joining the free 30 minute Garden History Tour led by our knowledgeable guides.

Ham House's 17th century walled kitchen garden is stunning all year round. Historically it would have grown fruit and vegetables to feed the whole household. Today organic principles encourage nature to thrive too. Hear how in this behind the scenes tour.