The gardens

Glynde Place is surrounded by gardens with extensive views out across the Sussex Downs. Since 1993, Lady 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.

Woodland Garden

The Woodland Garden is another of Lady Hampden’s ongoing garden projects, where she has added foxgloves, shrubs and unusual grasses. Formerly a field used for grazing sheep, this area that sweeps away to the north of the house, has been extended and is now awash with wild flowers. Particularly beautiful in the spring, the house and Tea Room are open at Easter for visitors to enjoy the display.

Check the website nearer the times for specific opening days.

The far end of the Woodland Garden has fantastic soil and Lady Hampden is planning a shrubbery here to grow all the plants she can’t get to grow in the chalkier soil closer to the house.

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 Lord Hampden planted new beech trees in 1993. These were planted to replace the trees lost in the storm of 1987 (is this correct?); the Main Lawn and the East Front, both of which are surrounded by topiary yews.