“Around 10 years ago I visited the Burncoose stand at Chelsea and asked Charles Williams to design and commence a long term planting programme to develop a woodland garden at Belvoir.  The objective was to encourage more visitors to come to the gardens and develop a new feature previously lacking in the historic Capability Brown landscape surrounding Belvoir Castle.  Over 20 acres of new plantings of camellias, magnolias and rhododendrons have now been completed alongside clearance of new vistas and woodland landscape features.  The overall impact is already stunning and a huge addition to Belvoir’s ability to attract new visitors for which Burncoose Nurseries must take great credit.  The new gardens will be open to the public in 2016.”