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Manor Heath and Jungle Experience

The walled demonstration garden

The Walled Demonstration Garden was once used to grow flowers, fruit and vegetables for the big house, but now it is used to demonstrate different types of gardening techniques of topical interest and bedding plant trials for Calderdale's parks.

The container garden

The Container garden demonstrates the different ways of displaying plants in pots and hanging baskets.

Thyme walk and Alpine trough garden

The thyme gives a fragrance as you step on it to pass by the alpine troughs. Bees and insects love the flowers of the thyme beneath your feet. These are not real stone troughs. Can you guess what they are made of? If not, please ask a member of staff. Near the yew hedge, rest a while on our chamomile seat.

The rock garden

Made from local sandstone and planted with specialist alpines and bulbs for the connoisseur.

Herbaceous borders

Using traditional plants for a magnificent summer flowering display.

Prairie planting

A bed specially designed and planted with grasses and some herbaceous perennials for very low maintenance, that is, no staking and only trimming back in spring. The coloured grasses and seed heads last right through the autumn and into the winter.

Necklace garden

Traditional plants and old-fashioned roses growing in a formal setting.

Winter garden

Plants of winter interest featuring flowers, stems, foliage and berries to illustrate how gardens can still be attractive in winter.

Mediterranean garden

Plants that are normally found in the Mediterranean area. This shows how they can be grown in Calderdale. Suggested ideas for plants to grow in domestic gardens for the water conscious gardener. The gravel garden shows plants that will survive in hot dry places.

Exhibition English garden

Designed and planted for the millennium, this professional design gives colour and texture throughout the growing season with many unusual plants and bulbs.

Demonstration beds

Watch out in summer for trials of new varieties of bedding plants and bedding schemes. If successful some will be put into practice in Calderdale's flower beds. The Dahlias, Chrysanthemums and Sweet Peas are grown in the summer by two volunteer growers who grow to show standards. We are very fortunate to have them helping us out and we thank them for the time they spend here.

Organic garden

Volunteers from The Calder Valley Organic Gardeners use part of the garden to demonstrate their skills in organic growing and composting.

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