RHS Garden Hyde Hall

RHS Garden Hyde Hall
Clover Hill at Hyde Hall
Location	Rettendon
Coordinates	51°39′58″N 0°34′29″E / 51.666041°N 0.574829°ECoordinates: 51°39′58″N 0°34′29″E / 51.666041°N 0.574829°E
Area	360 acres (150 ha)
Operated by	Royal Horticultural Society
Status	Open
Website	http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardens/Hyde-Hall

RHS Garden Hyde Hall is a public display garden run by the Royal Horticultural Society in the English county of Essex, east of London. It is one of four public gardens run by the Society, alongside Wisley in Surrey, RHS Garden Harlow Carr in North Yorkshire, and RHS Garden Rosemoor in Devon. In the year ended 31 January 2010 it received 130,011 visitors.

The garden at Hyde Hall was created by Dr and Mrs Robinson in 1955.^[1] Hyde Hall was formerly a working farm on a hilltop surrounded by arable land. The site was cleared and 60 trees purchased from Wickford market a few miles away. These trees now form the Woodland Garden.

In the 1960s shelter belts of Lawson and Leyland cypress hedges were planted. During this decade the farmland to the west of the Hyde Hall hilltop was incorporated into the garden.

In 1976 Helen and Dick Robinson formed the Hyde Hall Garden Trust which would manage the garden on a long-term basis. The trust donated Hyde Hall to the Royal Horticultural Society in 1993.^[2]

The curator is Ian le Gros.^[3]

Sources

• Elliott, Brent (2004). The Royal Horticultural Society: A History 1804–2004. Phillimore. ISBN 978-1-86077-272-6

1. History of Hyde Hall, Royal Horticultural Society, retrieved 13 July 2012
2. History, Royal Horticultural Society, retrieved 13 July 2012
3. "New for this year at RHS Garden Hyde Hall / RHS Gardening". Rhs.org.uk. Retrieved 22 August 2014.

External links

• official site