RHS Garden Hyde Hall

RHS Garden Hyde Hall
A photograph of Clover Hill, at RHS Hyde Hall
Clover Hill at Hyde Hall
RHS Garden Hyde Hall is located in Essex
RHS Garden Hyde Hall
Location in Essex
Location
Coordinates51°39′58″N 00°34′33″E / 51.66611°N 0.57583°E / 51.66611; 0.57583
Area360 acres (150 ha)
Operated byRoyal Horticultural Society
Visitors359,230 (2019)[1]
StatusOpen

RHS Garden Hyde Hall is a public display garden run by the Royal Horticultural Society in the English county of Essex. It is one of five public gardens run by the society, alongside Wisley in Surrey, Harlow Carr in North Yorkshire, Rosemoor in Devon, and Bridgewater in Greater Manchester.

The 360-acre Hyde Hall site encompasses a range of garden styles, from the Dry Garden with drought resistant plants, to the Hilltop Garden with roses and herbaceous borders. Hyde Hall has had a lot of investment in recent years with the opening of a new Global Growth Vegetable Garden (in 2017) showing vegetables from around the world, a new Winter Garden (in 2018) hosting an RHS Trial of Cornus, a new Welcome building (in 2017), and Hilltop Complex (in 2018) featuring a new restaurant and activity centre.

There is a reference library, located in the old farmhouse. It provides a substantial collection of books on practical gardening, garden design, botanical art, garden history, wildlife gardening, plant hunting and much more.[2]

Robert Brett is the current curator after taking over from Ian Le Gros who became Head of Site.[3]

  1. ^ "ALVA - Association of Leading Visitor Attractions". www.alva.org.uk. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Visit the Reading Room at RHS Garden Hyde Hall, Essex / RHS Gardening". www.rhs.org.uk. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Robert Brett Named Curator of RHS Garden Hyde Hall". RHS. Retrieved 12 May 2019.