insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 02 - April 2015 | Page 65

DAYSOUT

NEW Tulip & Wildflower Garden Blooms at

ARUNDEL CASTLE
The impressive gardens at Arundel Castle, West Sussex, reopened in
March with brand new features, new varieties of flowers and a fresh
look to dazzle visitors this year.
Arundel Castle’s team of highly
skilled gardeners have been
working tirelessly to guarantee
breathtakingly colourful displays
in time for opening. In total, more
than 52,000 spring bulbs have
been planted – a record for the
Castle.
Brand new for 2015, the Tulip
& Wildflower Garden will feature
areas for visitors to sit and
relax or have their photos taken
surrounded by beautiful blooms.
This area will also be home to
one of the largest displays of
tulips during the Castle’s annual
Tulip Festival which will run from
mid-April until mid-May.
Over 8,000 tulips are expected
to flower in the new Wildflower
Garden including the beautiful
Carnival de Rio, Flaming Flag,
blood red Bastogne, crimson
streaked Washington and yellow
and red Helmar varieties.
Once the tulips have finished, the
area will be dedicated to a new
mix of wildflowers.
The popular grass labyrinth will
also burst with colour in April,
with around 1,000 glorious tulips,

swiftly followed by over 1,000
bright purple alliums sprouting
through the middle circles of the
maze.
Newly introduced for 2015,
Tulipa Linifolia will feature in the
artistic Stumpery, offering flashes
of red amongst the upturned tree
roots.
Visitors will also be able to enjoy
new cloud hedging displays, an
array of greenery carefully formed
using a Japanese method of
training trees and shrubs into
shapes resembling clouds.
Head gardener Martin Duncan
commented: “My team and
I were delighted to note that
over a third of visitors named
the gardens as the ‘most
enjoyable’ element of their Ca