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2027 Garden Season

Season: Thursday 1 April–Sunday 31 October 2027.

Open Days

1 April–30 September: Wednesday–Sunday

October: Friday–Sunday

Open on bank holidays during the garden season.

Daily Opening Hours

·        Garden opens: 11:00am

·        Last garden admission: 3:45pm

·        Last orders in the tearoom: 3:45pm

·        Tearoom and plant stand close: 4:00pm

·        Garden closes: 4:30pm

An exotic garden in an exposed prairie landscape by the North Norfolk coast

A beautiful, 32 acre modern garden containing many garden rooms with herbaceous borders, gravel gardens, sub-tropical gardens, a box parterre, sunken rose garden, Mediterranean garden, Desert Wash and a large woodland garden — there really is so much to explore. One of our great joys is to see the pleasure that the garden can bring to many of the visitors and that everybody seems to find some part of it that is special to them.

Gardens to explore at
East Ruston Old Vicarage

Gardens
Dutch Garden
Dutch Garden

The Dutch Garden is on the western end of the house and makes a setting for our drawing room.

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King’s Walk
King’s Walk

Through a brick arch, we find the south front of the house. Facing south is The Kings Walk, designed to be seen from the house as a formal enfilade of three lawns…

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Sunk Garden
Sunk Garden

The Sunk Garden is as expected sheltered from the wind, here are a series of raised beds, alpine troughs, a square pond at its centre with a plinth supporting a modern sculpture by Bill Cordaroy.

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Exotic Garden
Exotic Garden

From the large, covered pergola we enter the Exotic Garden with its fountain cleverly discharging its water inwards rather than outwards.

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Woodland Garden
Woodland Garden

Where once there were fields and open country trees have turned this into a woodland where many interesting plants find the shelter and fecundity but the stars are a large and ever-growing collection of Hydrangeas.

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Mediterranean Garden
Mediterranean Garden

The Mediterranean Garden is a series of south-facing terraces, each backed by the shelter of heat-retaining red brick walls. Two plants, in particular, cause much excitement here.

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All Gardens

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Meet Mr Alan Gray

 

Alan Gray is a regular contributor to BBC Radio Norfolk’s ‘Garden Party’ on Sundays lunchtimes, 11 – 1pm helping listeners with their horticultural queries large or small. The programme where no question is too silly to ask, the aim is to promote gardening and the fun, fitness, excitement and sheer delight that it brings to old and young alike. 

Together with friend and gardening colleague, Thordis Fridriksson Alan has a podcast aptly named, ‘Talking Dirty’. They invite interesting people from the world of gardening to share tips, tricks and knowledge. Packed with information on all aspects of gardening and horticulture the aim is to share the love that we have for this rather special occupation with humour and fun.

Alan also has a weekly column in the Eastern Daily Press where he writes about gardening, giving information on many aspects from seeds to suppliers, from weeds to watering cans. No aspect from the world of horticulture is too small or too large, if he thinks that the readers will be interested, he voices his opinion.

 

 

Anyone for tea?

Arrive early for a light snack before taking in the garden, or refuel with a delicious tea/coffee and cake mid-way through your visit. Our tea room serves teas, coffee, fresh cakes and savouries. Open from 11-4:00pm.

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