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The Bressingham Gardens

RHS Partner Garden

Free access for RHS members during selected periods

Low Road
Diss
Norfolk
IP22 2AA

Free Access
Free access (member 1 only for joint memberships) applies May & Oct.

Tel
01379 686900

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Opening Hours

1 Apr–31 Oct. (Steam Museum also open) Gardens only; 10 Feb–end of March (snowdrops and winter interest). Please see website for details and opening times.

Admission

Please see website for admission prices.

RHS members

Free access (member 1 only for joint memberships) applies May & Oct.

Facilities

  • Toilets
  • Children’s play area
  • Gift shop
  • Accessible facilities
  • Free carer entry
  • Parking
  • Accessible garden
  • Picnic area
  • Group rates
  • Refreshments

Features

  • Herbaceous border
  • Autumn colour
  • Wildlife planting and features
  • Winter garden

About the garden

Owned by

Adrian Bloom

Six linked gardens filling 17 acres were created by nurseryman and plantsman Alan Bloom, the founder of the Bressingham Gardens Nursery, and his son Adrian Bloom. The gardens nestle in the idyllic Waveney Valley in south Norfolk. Alan Bloom’s Dell Garden incorporates island beds filled with 4,500 different selections of hardy perennials, which offer spectacular summer colour.

The Fragrant Garden is packed with delightfully scented shrubs, herbs and foliage. Adrian’s Wood links the Dell Garden to Foggy Bottom and is devoted to North American plants. Foggy Bottom offers a demonstration of how to grow and use trees, conifers, shrubs, perennials and grasses for year-round colour. It’s a truly enchanted garden containing appealing plant combination ideas and inspiration. The most recent addition is the Winter Garden – perfect to visit from mid-February.

Plants of special interest

  • Agapanthus
  • Alliums
  • Alpines
  • Asters
  • Autumn bulbs
  • Begonias
  • Bluebells
  • Camellias
  • Chrysanthemums
  • Clematis
  • Conifers
  • Cornus (for winter stems or spring bracts)
  • Cut flowers
  • Cyclamen
  • Daffodils
  • Ferns
  • Fruit blossom
  • Fuchsias
  • Grasses
  • Heathers
  • Hellebores
  • Hemerocallis
  • Herbs
  • Hostas
  • Irises
  • Lavender
  • Lilies
  • Magnolias
  • Maple
  • Primulas
  • Rhododendrons/azaleas
  • Shade-loving plants
  • Snowdrops
  • Spring bulbs
  • Waterlilies

Get involved

The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place.