Autumnal Oakwood
Oakwood – formerly known as the Wild Garden – is the historic heart of Wisley. Oakwood is the original Wisley, where George Fergusson Wilson created various conditions – such as mounds, ponds and ditches – in order to ‘grow difficult plants successfully’. Here, the spirit of George Fergusson Wilson’s original garden lives on, remaining true to his ethos of ‘growing difficult plants successfully’ in a naturalistic style.
The Royal Horticultural Society make the most of the moist soil and light shade to grow choice woodland plants, including showy herbaceous and bulbous plants for impact. The woodland floor is stocked with an immense variety of hostas, primulas, trilliums and many other woodlanders which thrive in the naturally high water table and fertile soil.
As in natural woodland, lower-growing trees and shrubs fill in the middle layer of vegetation, and in spring, camellias, rhododendrons and magnolias such as M. kobus, M. stellata ‘Scented Silver’ and M. ‘Peter Dummer’ provide glorious spring colour over carpets of bulbs.
Surrounded by the hustle and bustle of the Rock Garden and Seven Acres, Oakwood offers a sense of solitude and serenity with many paths to explore and new plants to discover. In fact, this part of Wisley has the garden’s most diverse plant collection.
The Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisley in the English county of Surrey south of London, is one of five gardens run by the Society, the others being Harlow Carr, Hyde Hall, Rosemoor, and Bridgewater (opening in May 2021). Wisley is the second most visited paid entry garden in the United Kingdom after the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with 1,232,772 visitors in 2019.
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Autumnal Oakwood
Oakwood – formerly known as the Wild Garden – is the historic heart of Wisley. Oakwood is the original Wisley, where George Fergusson Wilson created various conditions – such as mounds, ponds and ditches – in order to ‘grow difficult plants successfully’. Here, the spirit of George Fergusson Wilson’s original garden lives on, remaining true to his ethos of ‘growing difficult plants successfully’ in a naturalistic style.
The Royal Horticultural Society make the most of the moist soil and light shade to grow choice woodland plants, including showy herbaceous and bulbous plants for impact. The woodland floor is stocked with an immense variety of hostas, primulas, trilliums and many other woodlanders which thrive in the naturally high water table and fertile soil.
As in natural woodland, lower-growing trees and shrubs fill in the middle layer of vegetation, and in spring, camellias, rhododendrons and magnolias such as M. kobus, M. stellata ‘Scented Silver’ and M. ‘Peter Dummer’ provide glorious spring colour over carpets of bulbs.
Surrounded by the hustle and bustle of the Rock Garden and Seven Acres, Oakwood offers a sense of solitude and serenity with many paths to explore and new plants to discover. In fact, this part of Wisley has the garden’s most diverse plant collection.
The Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisley in the English county of Surrey south of London, is one of five gardens run by the Society, the others being Harlow Carr, Hyde Hall, Rosemoor, and Bridgewater (opening in May 2021). Wisley is the second most visited paid entry garden in the United Kingdom after the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with 1,232,772 visitors in 2019.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RHS_Garden%2C_Wisley