A view of the Forecourt Garden in winter | © NTI / Chris Lacey

Gardens in Sussex

Beautiful gardens are found all over Sussex. Discover frost covered topiary, winding garden paths and fragrant, winter-flowering plants. Wrap up warm and come out for an uplifting winter stroll at Nymans, Sheffield Park and Garden, Bateman’s, Petworth and Standen.

Discover frost covered topiary, winding garden paths and fragrant, winter-flowering plants. Wrap up warm and come out for an uplifting winter stroll at Nymans, Sheffield Park and Garden, Bateman’s, Petworth and Standen.

A wintery scene over the lakes at Sheffield Park and Garden, East Sussex

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Sheffield Park and Garden

Winter brings lingering misty mornings over Sheffield Park’s lakes, allowing frosty trees to display their sculptural beauty. There’s still plenty of green in this garden for all seasons. Head down Conifer Walk or spot the giant redwoods for a splash of winter colour.

View lit by late sun, from a frosty rockery with low plants and a tall palm tree, up to a ruined house folly

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Nymans

Walk along winding paths past sculpted topiary and yew globes. Fragrant daphnes and colourful camellias ﬂower in winter, along with witch-hazels and ﬂame-coloured cornus stems. The Winter Walk is just the place to enjoy subtly colourful flowers such as hellebores and pulmonaria.

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Standen

Winter is a colourful time of year in the garden at Standen. Discover flowering camellias and sculptural trees. The hollies, heathers and hellebores all along the top terrace are a cheery sight. Enjoy crisp, frosty walks through the woodland on the estate and warm up with coffee and a delicious home-made cake from the Barn café.

The Ionic Rotunda, a round stone structure with a domed roof supported by columns, stands on raised grassy ground, with bare-branched trees to both sides

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The Pleasure Garden at Petworth

Find out what to see in the garden at Petworth House. From the peaceful woodland walk to the impressive Doric Temple, there's much to take in during a stroll.

Discover the top Sussex gardens designed or influenced by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown or Humphry Repton.

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The garden at Sheffield Park and Garden

Explore a horticultural work of art at Sheffield Park in East Sussex, formed through centuries of landscape design, famed for its autumn colour but beautiful in every season.

The Ionic Rotunda in the Pleasure Garden at Petworth House, West Sussex, with green lawn and avenue of trees

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The Pleasure Garden at Petworth

Petworth’s Pleasure Grounds and majestic deer park are one of ‘Capability’ Brown’s finest unspoilt landscapes, full of vistas and impressive features such as the Doric Temple and woodland walk.

Enjoy the sight of daffodils at Nymans, Petworth and Bateman’s in early spring. Then blossom and bluebells as spring warms up into April and May at Sheffield Park and Garden and Standen. Sheffield Park is home to glorious rhododendrons in flower in May.

Magnolia tree and daffodils on a sunny day in the Walled Garden at Nymans, West Sussex

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Nymans

The Wall Garden at Nymans is brim-full of spring bulbs and blossom, around the centrepiece of the Italianate marble fountain. It’s a touch of heaven after the long winter, to take in the spring blossom and catch magnolias in flower. Later on in May, it’s the turn of the tall purple alliums in the borders to take centre stage, matched only by dusky mauve wisteria, tumbling on the pergolas and rare rhododendrons and azaleas

Espalier apple tree with blossom at Standen, West Sussex

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Standen

From new blooms to soft birdsong, Standen comes to life in springtime. Enjoy the clouds of pear and apple blossom. Followed by wisteria, clothing the wall by the lavender lawn with fragrant purple blooms. Rhododendrons from Mrs Beale’s original collection can be seen around the garden from mid May. While bluebells fill the woodlands.