Borde Hill in Sussex reopens for its spring season 2025

Borde Hill, the Grade II listed family estate and English country garden in Sussex, reopened for its spring season on Saturday, February 15, 2025.

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00:00I'm Jay Goddard, 5th Generation Family Custodian of Board Hill and Managing Director and I'm so

00:06delighted to welcome you. We've got a really exciting season ahead of us and we opened the

00:10doors to visitors for the new season last weekend. We're currently in half term so we've got a really

00:15wonderful children's trail at the moment, Wilbur's Wild Welly Walk, which runs all the way until the

00:20end of March. From a garden colour perspective we've got a beautiful display of Narcissi

00:26both along our North Park Walk but also just outside the Africa House, which is the glass

00:31house that we're standing in, displayed in heritage terracotta pots as well. The Africa

00:38House itself has a beautiful display by local Sussex artists of the art of spring, so really

00:44celebrating the floral colour that's about to pop and burst into life within the garden itself.

00:57So

01:12new season, I'm personally looking forward to an exciting calendar of events. We've got many

01:17new workshops and events planned for the season as well as some timeless classics, for example

01:23our Plant Fair on the 11th of May is hugely popular with our visitors and our members.

01:29We also have Opera on the Lawn in the summer and Lumos Live, which was a new event for last year

01:34that's returning for this summer as well. But arguably our most exciting news for the season is

01:39that we have a new chef partner, Chantal Nicholson. She's a leading London chef who's actually

01:45relocated to Sussex now and she's working with us to launch a whole range of new restaurants

01:51and eateries at Bordhill, starting with a micro bakery in the garden that will open in time for

01:56Easter. At the start of the journey, start of the season, it's so wonderful just to see those first

02:01glimpses of colour and of spring flowering across the garden. So little daffodils in our society

02:09are just peaking out, the camellias are starting to show, the rhododendrons will be out in the

02:14next few weeks as well as the magnolias. So Bordhill actually has its national collection

02:19status holder for its rhododendron collection and we have champion magnolias across the garden

02:25and wider landscape as well. So it's such an exciting time with lots of colour about to show.