Extensive 370 acres of grounds surrounding a grand 1716 Georgian mansion. The gardens include two privy gardens, mixed borders, and a wildlife pond. There is also a well kept Victorian walled garden which is organically maintained and includes huge lavender beds as well as many different pear and apple trees.
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Cambo Gardens is based around a Victorian mansion house within a 70 acre designed landscape. The walled gardens has one of the largest collections of herbaceous plants in Scotland. We are leading practitioners in the field of contemporary naturalistic planting design. The Student placement is practically based with an emphasis on design, plantsmanship and managing large plant collections. Additionally the student will gain experience in fruit and vegetables, propagation, and glasshouse management. The student will also gain an invaluable insight into the running and development of this progressive garden.
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105 acres of garden developed over 400 years. Many areas still reflect the fashions of each century: 17th century London and Wise cascade, ‘Capability’ Brown landscaped woodland Park, Paxton rockeries and stunning orange borders and blue and white borders, terraces, display house, rose garden and old conservatory garden. Kitchen garden, sensory garden, pleached limes and serpentine beech hedges.
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Exciting and eclectic mixture of styles and tastes. Magnificent displays of bedding plants infilling knot gardens. There is a wilderness garden with a spring bulb display and the great Fountain Garden. The restored William lll Privy Garden is a unique example of the Baroque with parterres, cutwork, clipped yews and spring and summer displays of 17th century flowers. The Laburnum walk, great maze and the Great Vine all add significant interest. Historic Royal Palaces Trust
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This Grade 1 Historic Garden has an enthusiastic garden team headed by Fergus Garrett. The garden has a striking meadow which includes a mass of camassia and colonies of bulbs and early purple orchids. There is a spectacular long border and a riotous exotic border combining colours in an unconventional manner. Ponds, pots and inspired planting combinations will keep this Christopher Lloyd Scholarship/HBGBS trainee thrilled throughout the seasons.
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Thirty-five kilometers (22 miles) west of York, the home of the Earl and Countess of Harewood is one of England's great 18th-century houses. It has always been owned by the Lascelles family. The fine Adam interior has superb ceilings and plasterwork and furniture made especially for Harewood by Thomas Chippendale. There are also important collections of English and Italian paintings and Sèvres and Chinese porcelain. The gardens, designed by Capability Brown, include terraces, lakeside and woodland walks, and a 1.8-hectare (4 1/2-acre) bird garden with exotic species from all over the world, including penguins, macaws, flamingos, and snowy owls. Other facilities include an art gallery, shops, a restaurant, and a cafeteria.
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Leith Hall is located about 35 miles north west of Aberdeen in Leith Hall is located in the north east of Scotland about 35 miles outside of Aberdeen. The 6 acre garden is 186 meters above sea level and contains Herbaceous borders, Kitchen garden, Orchard garden and a 1920s rock garden.
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A nineteenth century house with a garden which was made famous by the plantsman E A Bowles. It fell into decay and is being restored as an example of a twentieth century plantsman's garden.
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Garden began in 1898 when cotton magnet Bulley, began gardening with plants and seed collected by George Forrest. 60 acres protected by extensive shelter belts. Extensive Sorbus, azaleas, rhododenrons and heather collections. Charming pottager garden. Plenty of opportunity to study how a botanic garden manages its collections. University of Liverpool
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Nymans is a dynamic garden with a 'tradition of change'. Fertile soil and a mild climate support a wonderful plant collection, notable for its Chilean and Himalayan accessions and 29 champion trees. Rich areas of display compliment our woody plants; the June Borders showcase modern perennial planting, The Summer Borders are a vibrant experiment in annual bedding and beds of tender bulbs and half-hardies bring added colour throughout the garden.
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Historical botanical garden dating from 1887 featuring choice trees and shrubs, herbaceous border and annual beds, scented walk and shrub roses, and set within the Royal Victoria Park which also contains the nursery glasshouses. We already have three horticultural apprentices with a robust training programme in place which has been nationally recognised by CABE space.
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The private Norfolk retreat of Her Majesty the Queen. Sandringham is a sixty acre garden of mainly informal planting open to the public throughout the summer months. Landscaped by William Broderick Thomas in The 1880's the pleasure grounds include informal lakes and rockeries built by James Pulham. A stream walk and Woodland garden as well as formal hedges and an area of garden rooms surrounded by avenues of pleached limes designed by Geoffrey Gelicoe in 1947.
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The Sir Harold Hillier Gardens have a exceptional plant collection of international significance. Situated close to Romsey in Hampshire in the South of England, is the greatest collection of hardy woody plants in the world growing in 180 acres of formal and informal landscapes. With an ever expanding collection and concentration of horticultural expertise, the Gardens are an important centre for education and conservation and are enjoyed by around 140,000 visitors a year.
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Threave House, built in 1872, was bequeathed to the National Trust for Scotland in 1948. The NTS developed the house and the 24 hectares of gardens around it as a visitor attraction, and set up a School of Practical Gardening for students to gain direct hands-on practical gardening experience in a 'live' classroom.
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This 17 acre garden benefits from the Gulf Stream and grows a unique sub-tropical variety of plants including agaves, puyas, cacti, aeoniums and banksias. Set on a south-sloping hillside with horizontal walks, views slanting down to the sea. Tresco Abbey Trust
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Walmer Castle is an intensively maintained garden of some 10 acres and registered Grade II. The garden has developed between c. 1790 and the present day. There is a commemorative lawn, woodland walk and meadow, croquet lawn and a working kitchen and cutting garden, greenhouses, as well as a double herbaceous border flanked by mature yew hedges. This is a distinctive feature of the garden known as the 'cloud' hedge.
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Winterbourne Botanic Garden at the University of Birmingham is a seven acre Edwardian Arts and Crafts style garden on the university's Edgbaston Campus. The Grade II listed garden is a haven of peace and tranquility only 15 minutes from the city centre. Offering colour and interest throughout the year, Winterbourne is home to a beautiful walled garden, an unusual hazelnut tunnel, striking colour themed borders and 1930's Japanese bridge and tea house.
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