Sunbury Walled Garden

Sunbury Walled Garden is a little gem hidden away inside Sunbury Park.
I am quoting the local council website below as they summarise better than I do, but in brief there is a beautiful reconstructed walled garden, a new café, and outside the walls some 26 acres of wild Sunbury Park. highly recommended and with easy parking either in its own car park or off the Avenue. Do try the café cakes — they are legendary and the ladies who bake are very competitive!
The garden has been designed on formal lines and includes various styles of garden types from past centuries, including knot gardens, parterres and a Victorian rose garden. There are also four large areas of island beds in which are displayed collections of plants from all parts of the world, and representing numerous plant families and species.
The knot garden is a style of gardening popular around the 15^th and 16^th centuries and the intricate inter-​weaving of the dwarf hedges displays evidence of Italian influences on English gardens at that time. In a similar manner the French influences around the 17^th century can be seen in the parterres, which are areas of geometrically designed flower beds, enclosed by clipped dwarf hedges.
The Victorian Rose garden is composed entirely of rose species and varieties which were either introduced or widely planted during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837 – 1901). Generally speaking, these roses have a shorter flowering period than our modern introductions, but are renowned for their classic flower form and strong fragrance. Varieties especially worthy of mention are the Bourbon Rose, Souvenir de la Malmaison and the Damask Rose, Marie Louise.
In contrast the modern rose garden contains many of the varieties which have proved to be firm favourites with the home gardener in recent years. Established roses like Peace and Iceberg are joined by the first ever ‘Rose of the Year’ Mountbatten, and a number of its successors.
One variety worthy of special note is Violet Squire, named after the wife of Mr D J Squire, of Squire’s Roses, Shepperton, who very generously donated all the roses within this section.
The garden contains two architectural features of local interest and significance, the Lendy Memorial, and the ‘portico’ of the now demolished Benwell House. The Lendy Memorial is a re-​creation of structure which until destroyed during World War II, stood on the riverside in Sunbury. The Benwell House ‘portico’ was preserved following the demolition of the house in 1984, and now frames the northern gate of the garden.
Do visit — they also have concerts in summer and a summer picnic.