THE RIVERSIDE GARDENS
Opening times:
November to January
Closed for our Enchanted Gardens festive light trail
February, March & October
Monday - Saturday: 9:00am to 5:00pm
Sunday: 10:30am to 4:00pm
April to September
Monday - Friday: 9:00am to 6:00pm
Saturday: 9:00am to 5:00pm
Sunday: 10:30am to 4:00pm
Designed by Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal Winner Marigold Webb.
The series of high quality themed gardens beside the River Salwarpe at Webbs, Wychbold incorporate thousands of plants, striking features and creative landscaping. The stunning display gardens are designed and nurtured for your enjoyment, relaxation, education and inspiration.
The gardens are five acres of rich resource for everyone to enjoy for FREE, whether you are encouraging young children to explore their natural surroundings, seeking peaceful inspiration from the feature gardens or looking for new ways to go green with ideas for self sufficiency and environmentally sensitive gardening.
Throughout the seasons the gardens offer a special window into the gardening and natural world with it's ever-changing palette of colours. Take a walk through the wisteria walkway, in spring this is a tunnel of flowers of differing wisteria varieties, late flowering varieties of clematis flower along each side. Visit the wildflower meadow, see how vegetables can be grown ornamentally in a small garden or be amazed by the myriad of colours in the spectrum garden.
In 2016 we introduced our popular Hobbit House, a great place for children to explore and crawl through tunnels and our grounds team are constantly looking at new features to encourage young ones to engage with our surroundings.
We are proud to be members and supporters of the National Gardens Scheme, which has raised more than £45 million for nursing and caring charities since 1927. The scheme gives visitors unique access to over 3,700 exceptional gardens in England and Wales, core beneficiaries include Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie, Hospice UK and The Queen's Nursing Institute.
In 2022 we added two living scupltures to the gardens. Our sleeping moss maiden lies peacefully by the river under the boughs of an ancient ash. Our gnarly troll can be found peeking out of the undergrowth in the woodland, crafted completely from coppiced and fallen wood from the surroundings. Both pieces were made sustainably by local scupltor Georgina Rose Shire.
We would also kindly ask that you don't take your dogs inside of the Riverside Gardens.
