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Belvoir Castle Landscaping Project

Since 2004 Burncoose has been involved in a major project to design and create a large scale woodland garden at Belvoir Castle for Her Grace, The Duchess of Rutland.

Unexpectedly Belvoir has very little in the way of formal or informal gardens around the castle. The Duchess was therefore keen to create something completely new in a sheltered valley overlooked from the castle battlements. The template for the new garden is based on the informal 100 acre woodland gardens at Caerhays Castle (the sister garden to Burncoose ) and at Burncoose.

Over the last 5 years huge areas of bramble and ponticum scrub have been cleared to make way for massed plantings of camellias, rhododendrons, azaleas and other rarer ornamental trees and shrubs. The oak canopy has been thinned and new vistas from the castle opened up for spring and summer visitors to enjoy from different overlooking angles.

The project is ongoing year by year but will still take many more years to mature and become the planned visitor attraction which is intended. However already the new plantings have taken hold and are progressing well in and around the newly created paths.

So come back again, when we take more pictures to show how things are growing this year.

April 2012 - We have have just completed another phase of woodland garden design and planting at Belvoir. The ‘Spring Garden’ at Belvoir had become overgrown and was in urgent need of restoration. The clearance of encroaching saplings, yew and ponticum was completed in February to leave the choice specimen plants from 3 previous phases of planting intact. The collection of rare and unusual spring flowering trees and shrubs has now been greatly increased and we all now hope for a not too dry summer.

Visitors to the CLA Game Fair in July at Belvoir will be able to see our work to the west of the castle.