Visitors to Blenheim Palace’s magnificent Formal Gardens are enjoying a late summer show of vibrant colour, thanks to the incredible display of Dahlias in the Potager Garden - captured here by photographer Pete Seaward.
Packed with character and bursting with colour, Dahlias are an essential highlight of any late summer garden - and Blenheim Palace’s beds are brimming with these fabulous flowers, alongside the Potager Garden vegetables.
Other garden highlights at Blenheim Palace this month include a visit to savour the splendour of the Butterfly House, which was given a fresh look earlier this year; and in the Walled Garden, visitors can learn all about the importance of bees and other pollinators in the all-new Rowse Honey Hive.
Blenheim Palace’s magnificent Formal Gardens are in a continuous state of change, now being finely curated by visionary Head Gardener Andy Mills who is drawing on the garden’s extensive heritage to bring rediscovered treasures to the forefront for visitors - the biggest change to the Blenheim Palace Landscape in over 100 years.
The Gardens are open daily from 10am to 5.45pm - to book tickets, visit: Blenheim Palace Ticket Prices | Annual Passes & Discounts.
After visiting the gardens, head to the Blenheim Palace shop to see the comprehensive Estate Gardeners range, which includes prints, candles and coasters; what’s more, if you purchase any Blenheim Palace Gardener's Gin or Butler’s Gin (50cl), you will receive £10 off.
About Blenheim Palace
Home to the Dukes of Marlborough since 1705, Blenheim Palace was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
Set in over 2,000 acres of ‘Capability’ Brown landscaped parkland and designed by
Vanbrugh in the Baroque style, it was financed by Queen Anne, on behalf of a grateful nation, following the first Duke of Marlborough’s triumph over the French in the War of the Spanish Succession.
Today it houses one of the most important and extensive collections in Europe, which includes portraits, furniture, sculpture and tapestries.
Blenheim Palace is also the birthplace of one of Britain’s most famous leaders, Sir Winston Churchill, and it was his father who described the vista on entering the Estate from the village of Woodstock as the ‘finest view in England’.
