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The Gardens The Gardens have been intricately designed and created by multi RHS award-winning landscape architect Alistair Baldwin, along with rose expert Michael Marriott from David Austin Roses, and our incredible team of gardeners here at Wynyard Hall. The realisation of a lifelong dream, The Gardens create a spectacular setting. With over 3,000 roses from floribundas and climbing roses, to the statement English rose, Wynyard Hall is set to be home to one of the largest rose gardens in the UK. In company with the roses, visitors will also discover a careful selection of flowers, shrubs, and trees highlighted with graceful water features. The surrounding gardens have continued to evolve since the first development in 1822. For centuries to follow, they have provided a magical setting for Wynyard Hall. Current developments began with the dreams that Sir John Hall had for improving the Wynyard Hall Estate, and today we take immense pride in having worked to make these dreams a reality for you to enjoy. “It will be breathtakingly beautiful. No one will have seen anything like it, not on this scale” The Vision When I was a boy I used to watch my father tend the roses on our strip of garden in Ashington and, in that garden, at the age of about 14, I made a promise to myself that one day I would have a rose garden of my own. I was fascinated by roses. I tried to teach myself how to graft them, to take a cutting from one rose to grow another, but my fingers were clumsy and I struggled to get it right. I loved everything about them, especially their colours and their beautiful fragrance. That was many, many years ago and my dream took a back seat while I developed my business. When I bought Wynyard Hall in 1987, I knew the time had come to do something about it. Over the years I’ve consulted experts from across the UK, finally putting together the team whose expertise and enthusiasm are responsible for what you are soon about to see. - Sir John Hall This rose garden has been many years in the planning and will be spectacular, but it is just the start. Over the next four years we will develop the adjoining gardens and, when the work is done, it will be one of the finest rose gardens in the UK to include a cookery school, children’s garden and valley walks. It may have been born out of my dream, but this garden isn’t just for me. The North East of England has given me everything I have, and I have tried throughout my working life to give something back to it. So The Gardens at Wynyard Hall aren’t just mine, they are yours too, and I hope you will get as much pleasure from visiting them as I have from creating them. Alistair Baldwin – Alistair W Baldwin Associates Ltd.