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Pages from Nature: Walk through the Pleasure Grounds

Celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the publication of the 1824 guidebook to Croome, the Hortus Croomensis. Explore the views, scents and sounds of the garden at Croome using your own Hortus Croomensis booklet to guide you.

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  • Admission applies

Purchase a booklet inspired by the 1824 guidebook to Croome, the Hortus Croomensis, to explore the garden. Find out the history behind the landscape design; take time to sketch in the booklet, pause along the way to smell scents in the special scent boxes – can you guess what they are? Read quotes from the 1824 text to feel transported back 200 years.

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All Per Booklet£3.00
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Yes

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What to bring and wear

Weather appropriate clothing it is outdoors

Accessibility

The route is approx. 2 miles long and is on hard surface paths.

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Pages from Nature exhibition 

Pages from Nature is a 200-year anniversary exhibition celebrating the publication of William Dean’s Hortus Croomensis; a detailed record of the vast and varied plant collection at Croome in 1824.

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on
3 Jul 2025 to 1 Mar 2026
at
10:00 to 16:00
+ 241 other dates or times
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Wild Imagination Exhibition with Sarah Taylor Silverwood 

Wild Imagination is a new animation and accompanying soundtrack by artist Sarah Taylor Silverwood.

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on
3 Jul 2025 to 4 Jan 2026
at
11:00 to 16:00
+ 185 other dates or times
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Four Seasons Exhibition 

Croome has worked with artist Faye Claridge and local community groups to create new sculptures in response to the Four Seasons statues that once stood in the Evergreen Shrubbery. Explore the new Four Seasons exhibition in the House.

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on
3 Jul 2025 to 2 Jul 2026
at
11:00 to 16:30
+ 362 other dates or times
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Scents of Croome 

Step into a world where the senses guide your journey through history and nature, inspired by our Pages from Nature exhibition.

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on
3 Jul to 9 Nov 2025
at
11:00 to 16:30
+ 129 other dates or times