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]
Historyedit
The garden at Hyde Hall was created by Dr and Mrs Robinson in 1955.[4] Hyde Hall was formerly a working farm on a hilltop surrounded by arable land. The site was cleared and 60 trees purchased from Wickford market a few miles away. These trees now form the Woodland Garden.
In the 1960s shelter belts of Lawson and Leyland cypress hedges were planted. During this decade the farmland to the west of the Hyde Hall hilltop was incorporated into the garden.
In 1976 Helen and Dick Robinson formed the Hyde Hall Garden Trust which would manage the garden on a long-term basis. The trust donated Hyde Hall to the Royal Horticultural Society in 1993.[5]
Sourcesedit
Elliott, Brent (2004). The Royal Horticultural Society: A History 1804–2004. Phillimore. ISBN978-1-86077-272-6
^"ALVA - Association of Leading Visitor Attractions". www.alva.org.uk. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
^"Visit the Reading Room at RHS Garden Hyde Hall, Essex / RHS Gardening". www.rhs.org.uk. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
^"Robert Brett Named Curator of RHS Garden Hyde Hall". RHS. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
^, Royal Horticultural Society, archived from the original on 11 March 2013, retrieved 13 July 2012
^, Royal Horticultural Society, archived from the original on 1 February 2012, retrieved 13 July 2012
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