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.
- Booking not needed
- 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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The basics
- Suitability
Yes
- Meeting point
N/A
- 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.
Upcoming events
Christmas card printing workshop
Make a set of ten hand printed Christmas cards and learn print making skills from art practitioner Maggi.
Christmas at Croome: Rapturous Delight
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Health walks
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Christmas wreath making workshop
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