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.
Times
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
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.
Robert Adam bookcases
A monumental set of mahogany mid-18th-century bookcases, designed by renowned architect, Robert Adam (1728-1792) for Croome Court have returned from the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), London.
Wild Imagination Exhibition with Sarah Taylor Silverwood
Wild Imagination is a new animation and accompanying soundtrack by artist Sarah Taylor Silverwood.
Scents of Croome
Step into a world where the senses guide your journey through history and nature, inspired by our Pages from Nature exhibition.