Osterley Park and House

About the garden

One of the last country estates in London, Osterley’s 18th century Robert Adam house is surrounded by 350 acres of parkland, farm and gardens. The formal garden underwent a six-year transformation, evolving from an overgrown wilderness into a beautiful space featuring herbaceous borders, roses and ornamental vegetable beds.

Highlights include an American Border showcasing rare North American trees and shrubs, a walled garden with herbaceous borders and ornamental vegetable plots, a Winter Garden and the Long Walk, which is carpeted with bluebells in early spring. The Garden House, with its tender plants and collection of lemon trees, is a semi-circular building situated among the borders of Mrs Child’s Flower Garden. Mrs Child filled the Garden House with exotic, fragrant plants, including grapes, pineapples and, according to the 1782 inventory, “forty-five orange and lemon trees in tubs.”