Rockcliffe Garden is an 8 acre garden created over the last 30 years. A perfect blend of informally-planted trees and shrubs and generously filled borders, balanced by a good strong structure of hedges, topiary and pleached limes, the garden recalls the best of 20th century gardening, but with a contemporary edge to the layout.
The Head Gardener will welcome the group and lead a tour around the garden after which you are welcome to explore on your own. Rose terraces, herbaceous border, rectangular pond with Cornus contraversa variagata stretching branches across it, lawn lead up to a ha-ha edged with huge pyramids of beech, yew hedged rooms, canals, walled kitchen garden, greenhouses and above the kitchen garden, a path flanked by Yew birds leading up through the orchard to a stone dovecot, built in 2001.
And to end this special visit ends with refreshments in The Orangery.
Note: Quite a bit of walking, sometimes on uneven ground. Washroom available though not fully accessible.
The booking link below is only accessible by Friends with a password. Please contact the Friends Team (friends.administrator@obg.ox.ac.uk) if you have not received information about this.
