RHS Bowood Woodland Gardens
A separate attraction on the Bowood Estate, the Woodland Gardens are only open for six weeks of the year during the flowering season (April to early June). Covering more than 30 acres, there are just over two miles of paths intersecting the Woodland Gardens with an oasis of azaleas, bluebells, magnolias and rhododendrons.
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Activities at RHS Bowood Woodland Gardens include:
- Gardens
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Calne
Wiltshire
SN11 9PG
Gallery
Gardens
Age Appropriate
- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Location
- Outdoor
The Woodland Gardens surround the family mausoleum, one of Robert Adam’s finest classical buildings which was commissioned in 1761 by the widow of the first Earl of Shelburne. Recently, the Woodland Gardens were the subject of one of the most exciting and significant horticultural finds – more than 30 original hardy hybrids, which were thought to be extinct. The plants date back to when the garden was first planted by the third Marquis of Lansdowne in 1854. The present Marquis’s great grandfather substantially expanded the gardens on his return from India where he had been Viceroy.