The English Garden

Taste the World

The spectacular views from the rooftop of the new RHS Hilltop – The Home of Gardening Science, based at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey – are fringed by three beautiful garden spaces. From this vantage point, you get a bird’s eye view of each of the uniquely designed gardens: the Wildlife Garden, the Wellbeing Garden (laid out as garden rooms) and the World Food Garden.

With curiosity akin to that of Alice when she set off into Wonderland, follow the boundary of planting panels that envelop the World Food Garden, adorned with newly planted fruit trees of pears, plums and apricots, full of promise. Surprise openings in these panels draw you in: follow

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