The garden can be explored in all its winter glory in December and February, where visitors can enjoy the bare beauty of the garden, with the striking bare branches, before the spring bulbs appear in early 2020.
As you enter the formal garden you are met by the commanding greenery of the yew hedges as your senses pick up the smell of the Himalayan Sweet Box also known as Sarcococca hookeriana which is a species of evergreen shrub. Cloaking the mansion is a fetsoon of winter jasmine, which adds some welcome bright colour. The sunshine yellow of the winter jasmine is a bright compliment to the evergreen features dominating the formal garden.