New Garden at Brodsworth Hall
A fascinating alpine garden has been planted at Brodsworth Hall near Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
Brodsworth has one of the UK’s most authentic Victorian gardens and with the Alpine Garden they celebrate the hardy flora of the world’s greatest mountain landscapes.
The project has been inspired by the travels of the Thellusson family, who built the Hall in the 1860s, and enjoyed the trappings of wealth and privilege to the full. They spent some of their holidays in exotic far-flung destinations, from the Rocky Mountains in North America to the European Alps. Charles Sabine Thellusson, who built the house, owned the world’s largest private sailing yacht, while his sons regularly journeyed up the western coast of Scotland in their steam boats and along the fjords of Norway.
Inspired by these travels, English Heritage has selected plants from the areas the Thellussons visited for the collection, which is located in Brodsworth Hall’s spectacular Rock Garden. Amongst them are edelweiss, stonecrop, moss campion, rock rose and gentians, some of which grow on the “Roof of Britain” in the Scottish Uplands.
A total of 600 plants have been used, geographically laid out with Scottish 
and Norwegian alpines on top, plants from the Rockies to the west and European specimens to the east.
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