The gardens at Loseley Park

Set in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is Loseley Park, home to the More-Molyneux family for 500 years. The House has many fascinating features including panels from Nonsuch Palace, magnificent paintings, clocks and cabinets.

The Walled Garden has had many lives since it was laid out formally in the 16th Century, including an organic vegetable garden, orchard and designs by Gertrude Jekyll. The gardens are now five distinctly different ‘rooms’, each with their own style.

The award-winning Rose Garden was a present from Mike More-Molyneaux to his wife Sarah and is planted with over a thousand old fashioned rose bushes. The smell is incredible and it must make for a great sight from the house.

Varieties in the Rose Garden include bourbons, gallicas, rugosas, albas, moss, damask and English. All are framed with perfectly pruned low box hedges.

At the centre of the Rose Garden is a gazebo adorned with white roses.

Up from here are the greenhouses and the herb garden which is divided into culinary, medicinal, household and decorative sections. It contains over 200 herbs, some of which dating back to ancient times. Busy bees collect pollen nearby.

The Flower Garden is a burst of colour combining shrubs and herbaceous plants with annuals and bulbs.

These enormous poppies were certainly the highlight – perhaps a biased view given POD’s name is Poppy.

The White Garden is a tranquil area with white, cream and silver blooms with the Organic Vegetable and Cut Flower Garden nearby.

The South Bank is planted with a variety of perennial waterside plants with the Wildflower Meadow (across from the moat) alive with colour.

It was great to be back at Loseley again, such a wonderful place to visit. And they do very good ice-cream too!

Linking up with Mammasaurus for #HDYGG.