Our popular wreath-making workshops return for Christmas 2024. With the assistance of award-winning florist, Sam Cotterell, you will create your own beautiful door wreath. Using the traditional method of moss and wire, we will have an array of interesting foliage, seedheads, fresh fruit and decorations, together with a bit of sparkle. Both sessions include tea, coffee, stollen and mince pies.

Date & time:  Monday, 2nd December 2024, 1:30 - 4:30pm

Our popular wreath-making workshops return for Christmas 2024. With the assistance of award-winning florist, Sam Cotterell, you will create your own beautiful door wreath. Using the traditional method of moss and wire, we will have an array of interesting foliage, seedheads, fresh fruit and decorations, together with a bit of sparkle. Both sessions include tea, coffee, stollen and mince pies.

Date & time:  Monday, 2nd December 2024, 10am-1pm

Enjoy the Garden in its early summer splendour on an after‐hours tour of the Garden with one of our expert Garden Guides, followed by a glass of wine on the Main Lawn.

Tours start from Brookside Gate at 6.45pm and the Garden will close
at 8.45pm.

Date & time:  Tuesday, 18 June 2024 @ 6.45pm 

Home to the Bedingfeld family for 500 years, Oxburgh reveals one family's unshakable Catholic faith and story of endurance.  The gardens are a mixture of formal and wilderness, with the kitchen garden, orchard and herbaceous border adding colour and seasonal interest.

Elsing Hall was built in about 1470, and the Gardens established over 30 years ago. A particular feature of the gardens is the multitude of old English roses that adorn the walls of the house, the walled garden and many borders giving off an almost overpowering scent when in full bloom. The ticket includes an introductory talk and tea/coffee on the back terrace of the garden.

Date & time:  Tuesday, 21 May 2024

NOTE: Depart CUBG 8am or Trumpington Park & Ride 8.15am

The Dower House has a beautiful view of Melbourne Pool from the balustraded terrace. The garden drops steeply by paths and steps to lawn with herbaceous borders and banks of some 60 shrubs. Numerous paths lead to different areas of the garden, providing varied planting opportunities including a bog garden, glade, shrubbery, grasses, herb and vegetable garden, rose tunnel, orchard and small woodland. The garden is on two levels connected by steps and steep paths.  The ticket price includes a tour of the gardens.

Melbourne Hall is a Grade II* Georgian style country house. The Grade l listed garden with its broad sweeps of lawn, avenues and unexpected vistas is one of the most treasured historical gardens in the country and is the best surviving early 18th century English garden in the manner of le Notre. It was laid out by Rt. Hon Thomas Coke, Vice Chamberlain to Queen Anne, with help from the garden landscape designers George London and Henry Wise in the formal style. It is noted for its long tunnel of Yew, its wrought iron arbour created by Robert Bakewell and its statuary by Jan van Nost, notably the Four seasons monument, a gift from Queen Anne. On arrival at Melbourne Hall, we will be given an introductory talk by the Head Gardener. 

NOTE: Depart CUBG 8am or Trumpington Park & Ride 8.15am