Welcome to Blunts Hall

The gardens at Blunts Hall are open each year for private group visits during the spring and summer for the National Garden Scheme. Blunts Hall is a Grade II listed property set in three acres of managed garden and much of the house and garden you see today is the result of extensive improvements conducted by Hon Charles Strutt at the turn of the twentieth century.

After restoration of the house, work started on clearing the overgrown garden revealing walls, garden beds and steps from the Victorian period. We like to try a range of different plants to achieve the required effect for a particular area, often using informal planting in a formal layout rather than using Victorian planting plans. Various specimen trees and a woodland walk surround a spring-fed pond. Steps lead down from the raised terrace at the side of the Hall to a recreated parterre surrounded by herbaceous borders. The orchard and vegetable garden have a restored Victorian potting shed and cold frame.

Blunts Hall Garden moves seamlessly through the seasons welcoming carpets of snowdrops and aconites in the spring. Daffodils and bluebells then take centre stage along with apple blossom in the orchard and spring flowering shrubs. Moving into early summer alliums and irises fill the borders before moving onto high summer with salvias, penstemons and roses adding perfume and colour.

Images throughout the Year