Serving Holme made breakfasts, lunches, cakes and cream teas.

Displays of hot oranges, reds and yellows, at their best mid to late Summer and Autumn.

Classic vista and focal point, framed by borders

planted in whites and pastel shades.

Licensed for wedding ceremonies.

Architectural foliage and vibrant flowers.

Purple beech hedges form arched windows looking onto orange and peach-coloured roses.

Design based on the teaching of Sir Roy Strong and his garden The Laskett.

30 varieties of edible pear trained onto wrought iron framework.

12 flower beds with four main colour themes.

Completion of Canal by end 2023. Topiary and flowers.

Layout influenced by Alan Blooms’ Dell-Garden in

Norfolk with informal shaped island beds that could be viewed from all sides.

A Stone Circle formed from 2-tonne Purbeck stone

monoliths. Planting inspired by our local heaths and by Adrian Bloom’s Norfolk Garden, Foggy Bottom.

A meandering path with unusual cultivars of ornamental trees. The meadow beneath influenced by William Robinson in his book ‘The Wild Garden’ where he advocates the use of ornamental and exotic species planted in a naturalistic style.

A pair of 120m Lavender Munstead hedges line

this vista which is framed with a variety of upright hornbeam called ‘Frans Fontaine’.

Used on summer evenings for outdoor theatre

productions. Please see website for details.

150 varieties of apple trees and a lovely long grass meadow teeming with wildlife. Short mown paths allow you to get close up and personal with wildflowers, insects and butterflies. Phil Sterling And Sam Ellis from Butterfly Conservation advise on the meadow management.

Used by a local farmer for winter grazing.

Created in 2019. The topsoil has been removed to reduce fertility and the area sown with native wildflowers. The pond / lake is part of the rainwater harvesting from the garden centre roofs and car parks.

Unusual trees, meadow, and meandering paths.

Based on the Isaac Newton quote ‘If I have seen

further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants’. An homage to all those who have influenced horticulture through plant hunting, breeding, distributing, conserving to those who have designed, innovated, built and written about gardens and garden design. Without these ‘giants’ we would not have the amazing opportunity to create the gardens of today.

Completion in 2023 – A green lane lined with drystone walls high banks and covered with hazel trees to form a natural winding tunnel.

Plants grown for gardens. No public access.

Rainwater harvesting for watering gardens and garden centre.

To help with local environmental tree planting

projects.

The most sheltered part of the garden, cool and shady allowing us to grow maples and woodland plants.

Jim Goldsack (Simon’s father) cleared the 15ft

Rhododendrons so the wood could recover with bluebells, stitchwort, woodbine and other native woodland flora. Rare Camellia, Japanese Maples

and ferns will gradually replace the thick carpet of holly seedlings.

A high arch and wrought iron framework with 14 different Wisteria varieties. 2022.

Japanese cherry variety ‘Ichyio’ planted in 2020 to

celebrate the Japanese cherry blossom festival of Hanami.

Once a common site in the UK countryside these

cornfield annuals put on a sensational show in June and July.

This is Holme’s first National Collection of plants taken on from Wakehurst Place (Kew’s Sister Garden). A National Collection seeks to preserve and conserve rare species and cultivars within a particular genus. We hope to have many more of our own sourced National Collections in future.

Part of our Zero Carbon goal.