Garden Group Stays
Staying at Bressingham Hall on your small group Garden tour
Usually rented as a whole holiday let, for the first time since the renovation, Bressingham Hall is being made available on a half board basis for groups of up to 16 people to enjoy a memorable stay at our family Manor House and experience the seasonal highlights of the Bressingham Gardens and their immediate surroundings of natural beauty. We have 8 bedrooms, 6 are en-suite.
Let us help you make your Tour truly special!
Stays at Bressingham deserve to allow the time to wind down at the end of the day to take in the beauty of the gardens in the best evening light, after day visitors have left. Enjoy a family roast dinner in the elegant Georgian dining room filled with fresh flowers; experience the joy of waking up to one of the most serene and scenic views to be enjoyed barefoot with a cup of cofee before the world gets up.
Bressingham Hall is an ideal base for East Anglian Garden, culture and Nature tours allowing for small tour operators to offer exceptional accommodation and meals without having to travel for dinner after a long day out. It can also offer a much needed respite to tour leaders in the middle of a longer trip.
We are lucky enough to live in an area filled with natural beauty and exciting gardens. Please read sample days out at the bottom of this page by season.
Activities offered onsite:
Guided visit with Head Gardener or Adrian Bloom – allow 2 hours to explore the 17 acres of world renowned, all-season gardens taking in the beauty with this behind the scenes tour.
Flower head-dress – a fun and creative couple of hours using fresh and or dry flowers and grasses to make a head dress. Ideal activity to break the ice, create that smooth group feeling and seal everlasting fun memories.
Natural Seasonal Wreath – a fun workshop to create seasonal wreaths using materials from the gardens. Ideal activity to break the ice, create that smooth group feeling and seal everlasting fun memories.
Seasonal, homely, tasty food
What are you likely to eat at Bressingham Hall?
We use fresh, seasonal ingredients and cook on the day. We do not use frozen or ready made food. We believe in raw materials and cooking everything from scratch.
For dinner we provide a different three course menu each day, cooked fresh with seasonal ingredients. You are welcome to let us know of any allergies/intolerances at the time of booking, so we can choose the right menu to suit everyone.
Breakfast: granola, homemade muesli, fresh fruit, Plain yogurt, plant based yogurt and milk alternatives, roasted nuts, Alan Bloom’s Rhubarb compote, white and granary bread and toast, peanut butter, tahini, marmalade, marmite on the self service buffet. On order you are likely to find Pancakes, eggs and bacon, porridge.
Dinner: they change all the time, but here are some ideas.
Traditional Italian risotto, Lasagne with our own pasture fed Gloucester Old Spot meat, Our Garden vegetable velloutê, Pan fried Salmon with warm roast vegetables salad, English Roast chicken, Our own Venison Stew, Tiramisù, Apple Crumble, Lemon Bavoir…
Vegan/gluten/dairy free options: quinoa and vegetable fritters, alternative pancake, lasagne with vegetable ragù, vegan chocolate mousse.
May
Enjoy walking amidst Rhododendrons, unfurling ferns, ornamental cherries, magnolias, peonies and the excitement of the Spring gardens.
You might be on your way to the Chelsea Flower Show and want to truly relax and have an intimate break before the hustle and bustle of busy London.
Day trips possible for the garden lovers, all within 45 minutes drive from us.
Helmingham Hall Gardens followed by an afternoon walk around beautiful Lavenham;
Splendid visit to Wyken Hall gardens with lunch in their award winning restaurant, followed by a stroll in beautiful Bury St Edmunds;
Lovely visit to Fuller’s Mill Garden followed by magnificent West Stow Hall with antique frescoes with tea and cake in this privately owned magnificent medioeval gatehouse with owners Eileen and Andrew Gilbert.
Magnificent private visit to Columbine Hall and Gardens with owner Hew Stevenson and head Gardener followed by a seaside walk in beautiful Southwold.
Day trip to to Beth Chatto’s Gardens and Nursery (75 minutes away)
Summer
Just over an hour east from Stansted airport, an ancient world is hidden, silent and full of surprises for lovers of the countryside and the garden.
Let yourself fall in love with the nature of this land, nestled between the sea and the magical birch woods, rich in heathland and woods shaded in pink from the beginning of July with thousands of Foxgloves and sweetened by the golden wheat and barley fields.
Our gardens are ablaze with Alan Bloom’s Collections of perennial plants in full bloom. It is a true delight to enjoy the long bright evenings in the garden where we can organize al fresco dining and aperitifs.
Possible days out:
Chasing Arcadia beautiful private garden by designer Julianne Rodrigues with lunch in Beautiful Beccles and Antique shopping in nearby Yoxford.
Pelargonium and Auricola Shopping at wonderful Woottons Nurseries followed by a walk on Dunwich heath – one of the most extensive costal heathland in the UK, followed by a delicous Fsh and Chips in Aldebourgh.
Wonderful visit to Houghton Hall and Gardens followed by Holkham Hall and Gardens with their amazing beach reserve with Limonium /sea lavander) in flower.
Beautiful visit to Helmingham Hall with its Sculpture trail and award wining walled garden.
February / March
Mid to Late Winter is one of the most special times to stay at Bressingham Hall as the gardens are filled with thousands of very large fragrant snowdrops, and the large drifts of Cornus Midwinter Fire have reached their most spectacular show. It is particularly beautiful to be withdrawing into the warm atmosphree of our family home after a beautiful cold day visiting winter gardens.
Enjoy a short break of sheer delight walking amidst unexpected colour and fragrance through our award winning Winter garden, led by Adrian Bloom.
Allow yourself to be led, tiptoeing, into Adrian’s magic world of winter botanical drama where fiery naked branches and trunks provide awe inspiring combinations, backed by a myriad of diverse shades of evergreens finely enriched by dry grasses and seedheads left standing among heathers and beautifully scented winter flowering shrubs.
Possible day Trips in the area:
Chippenham Park with its beautiful display of winter shrubs, daffodil and snowdrop collections
Cambridge Botanic Gardens and a punt on the river (with blankets)
Hyde Hall RHS Garden
Anglesey Abbey National Trust