For one week in November, our team of gardeners and volunteers will be taking on the largest planting initiative seen in recent years. With pollinators and people at the heart of the work, 35,000 bulbs will be planted throughout our gardens. 

This is another positive step taken by our gardening team to encourage more resilient and coherent ecological networks and healthy well-functioning ecosystems. This hard work means that in the coming spring, visitors will be welcomed by a magnificent display. With thousands of flowers and rare camellia budding early, spring is guaranteed to be a visual spectacle.

For Rosie Fyles, this will be her first spring at Chiswick House, as Head of Gardens. With the focus on restoring much of the Garden’s heritage, and maintaining sustainable gardening approaches, Rosie is working to future-proof our garden and its plants for generations to come.

Head Gardener Rosie Fyles:

This autumn, planning for my first full spring, is all about bringing new colour, different textures and long flowering for pollinators and people. With the unique historic context of mature trees and historic walls, this bulb planting on scale will be part of a vivid celebration of the Gardens. I am also taking the opportunity to plant as many varieties as possible of our conservatory camellias outside, where long-term, they will thrive in predicted climate changes.