Restored Garden
History
North-facing bed, July
Photograph by Andrew Lawson
The authentically restored garden of this magnificent eighteenth-century London palace will be open to the public on specific days during Spring and Summer.
It has been re-planted with plants and shrubs appropriate to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century, for example Eryngium agavifolium; Hosta sieboldiana elegans and Rosa (Musk) 'William Lobb'.
Originally designed by Henry Holland (the architect working for the second Earl Spencer in the 1790's) possibly in collaboration with Lavinia, Countess Spencer, it was planted by July 1798 and was one of the largest gardens in Piccadilly.
Opening Times
South-facing bed, May
Photograph by Andrew Lawson
The garden was open to the public on Sunday 29th May 2011.
It will not be open again this year.
