The Gardens

Mr Stanley Neal  bought Upton Castle in the  1920s and was responsible for the laying out of the formal gardens and terraces and the planting of the Arboretum.  It is thanks to him that we have the mature gardens that we see today.

At Upton there are several gardens within a garden which in all extends to about 35 acres.

The formal rose garden

The Herbaceous Border

The Chapel garden

The private gardens

The Walled garden

In all seasons

All of the gardens are surrounded by the ARBOTETUM, a collection of rare trees mostly planted in the 1920’s and 30 and include mature specimens of: Drimys winteri; Parrotia persica; Ginkgo bilobia; Fagus heterophylla; Cunninghamia Taxodiaceae; Davidia involucrate amongst many others.

The arboretum is further surrounded by broad leaved woodland leading down to tidal Cleddau estuary.