Garden and landscape designers have all left their mark on Wimpole in one form or another, including some well known names such as Charles Bridgeman, Capability Brown and Humprey Repton.
The garden you see today has many layers of historical gardens, with each owner wanting to leave their mark, from the iconic South Avenue to the eighteenth century Walled Garden.
Walled Garden
This 18th-century walled garden was constructed by William Eames and features Sir John Soane’s glasshouse. This is where we nurture our young plants for the vegetable plots and plants for the formal gardens.
Each year we deliver fresh seasonal produce from the garden to our restaurant. We also have a flower team who use a cutting border in the Walled Garden to use in their floral arrangements in the Hall and on the tables in our Food & Beverage outlets.
Parterre
Our parterre garden is a reflection of past glories in the North Park. This area of garden was lost for a century and restored in the 1990s.
Over the next year, our garden team will be beginning a new project to revitalise the Parterre, re-planting the geometric beds with a display of seasonally flowering perennials. This project with help us to make the Parterre, more environmentally friendly, help to combat climate change and create a year-round display. Currently the Parterre is planted twice yearly with tulips in spring and salvias in autumn. Re-planting with a range of perennials that bloom at different times of year will help us to save water, labour and the climate costs of shipping and producing new plants and top soil each year.
Pleasure Ground
In the 18th-century these grounds were where the family took evening strolls and enjoyed picnics. They contained many rare, exotic and unusual plants sourced from all over the world discovered by plant hunters who were widely travelled.
