Houghton Hall Walled Garden
RHS Partner Garden
Houghton Hall
King’s Lynn
Norfolk
PE31 6TY
Free Access
Free access (member 1 only for joint memberships) applies Jun & Jul.
Opening Hours
Please see website for opening dates and times.
Admission
Please see website for admission prices.
RHS members
Free access (member 1 only for joint memberships) applies Jun & Jul.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Children’s play area
- Baby changing facilities
- Gift shop
- Accessible facilities
- Free carer entry
- Parking
- Accessible garden
- Picnic area
- Group rates
- Plant sales
- Refreshments
- Assistance dogs only
Features
- Sculpture
- Herbaceous border
- Glasshouse (open to public)
- Mediterranean/Italian garden
About the garden
Owned by
Lord & Lady Cholmondeley
Houghton Hall might be one of the finest Palladian Houses in England and boasts an award-winning five-acre Walled Garden divided into themed areas. A number of architectural features such as a rustic temple with fallow deer antlers decorating the pediment; a fruit cage in the shape of one of the stable towers; and a pergola for wisteria are the designs of Julian and Isabel Bannerman.
The fruit cage with espaliers of apples and pears forms the centre of the Kitchen Garden; there is a formal rose parterre with fountain and classical statues; a Mediterranean garden of French lavender and box tree hedging; and a spectacular double-sided herbaceous border. The Jeppe Hein ‘Waterflame’ shows the interaction between water and fire and adds a contemporary note to the garden.
Other contemporary sculptures on display are works by Richard Long and Stephen Cox. There are also standard laburnums, peony borders, vegetable and herb gardens, beds of irises, a magnolia corner, a glasshouse and a cherry tree walkway.
Plants of special interest
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