The gardens

Glynde Place is surrounded by gardens with extensive views out across the Sussex Downs. Since 1993, Sally, Viscountess Hampden, an enthusiastic gardener, has been working to improve the existing gardens with new planting and also developing other areas to create pockets of colour.

West Garden

The courtyard garden leads out to the West Garden. Here, Lady Hampden commissioned a designer, to create a garden full of perennials that are happy to grow on chalk. The garden includes penstemon, delphiniums, iceberg roses, eremus and nepeta and is at it’s colourful best during June and July.

The garden has several other areas – the Beech Walk (also known as the Bishop’s Walk, after the Bishop of Durham, a former inhabitant of the house), where the VI Viscount Hampden planted new beech trees in 1993. These were planted to replace the trees lost in the storm of 1987; the Main Lawn and the East Front, both of which are surrounded by topiary yews.