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.