Click on an audio clip to listen and scroll through the images below for a visual accompaniment.
Please note the tours and images provide a snapshot of the garden for a particular point in the season. However there’s a succession of interest until the end of March, when visitors will always find colour, fragrance and seasonal highlights.
These recordings were produced by Candide and are also downloadable via the Candide app, enabling visitors to be guided around the Winter Garden during their visit.
Part 1: Introducing the Winter Garden
The Winter Garden
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Norman Villis
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Stem colour
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Old geometric layout
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Highlighting the interest of plants
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Capturing low winter sunlight with displays of colour and seasonal interest at this quiet time of year
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Part 2: Some of the Winter Garden's hero plants
Along the main path
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Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill'
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Lonicera x purpusii
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Viburnum farreri
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Witch hazel Hamamelis × intermedia 'Jelena'
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Part 3: Topography and capturing low winter sunlight
Looking back through the Winter Garden
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Dogwoods
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Miscanthus
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Miscanthus backlit in sunlight
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Part 4: Other Winter Garden gems
Other aspects of the Winter Garden
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Wineberries
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Acer griseum
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Grouping of Betula albosinensis var. septentrionalis
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The peachy tints of Betula albosinensis var. septentrionalis
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Hamamelis x intermedia 'Jelena'
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Teasels
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Part 5: Plantings observed from the back of the Winter Garden
Valleys and river-like plantings including Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens'
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From here there is a bench from which you can enjoy the views
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The twisted stems of a Hazel
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Stinking Hellebores
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At the back of the Winter Garden you will find Colletia paradoxa
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Part 6: The back path of the Winter Garden
Walking along the back path
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The huge hedge, Taxus baccata
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Chimonanthus praecox
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Rubus niveus
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Snowdrops and winter aconites
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