Core Collection

Clumber's beautiful 4 acre Walled Kitchen Garden grows hundreds of varieties of fruit, vegetables and herbs, with stunning herbaceous borders, a rose garden and cut flower borders which produce colour and scent across the seasons.  


It's also home to the longest stretch of glasshouse cared for by the National Trust and the Museum of Gardening Tools. Here on the blog, our gardeners will update you on the latest comings and goings in the garden - what's being planted, what's in season and who's up to no good...


Photographed today - the apple blossom is looking good.  


From right to left in the foreground are three Nottinghamshire varieties - 'Malster', 'Bramley's Seedling' and 'Domino' - part of our collection of East Midlands and Yorkshire  varieties.  

We need some sunny days and frost-free nights over the next few weeks to ensure blossom is pollinated and fruits are formed. Fingers crossed this rain stops!


Look out on the Clumber Park website for info on our Apple Festival later in the year.

Welcome to our blog!

Welcome to our brand spanking new blog, bringing you all the latest news, behind the scenes action and stories from the team.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on the blog and how you've enjoyed your visits to the Park. If there's anything you'd like to see us posting about, let us know.

So, what's new at the moment?

We are all working very hard behind the scenes to try and get Clumber into the Guinness Book of World Records.

So, dust off your sewing kits, as part of the Big Jubilee Lunch on 3 and 4 June,  we are attempting to break the world record for the longest string of bunting, and we need your help!

The official Guinness record is currently held by the Fairtrade Foundation in London who created a line of bunting measuring 3,427.94 meters long (that's a lot of sewing!).  To break that record, we need to string nearly 20,000 pieces of bunting together.

We are working with community groups including nursing homes and schools to make as many unique pieces of bunting as possible, and throughout May there will be opportunities to make your own bunting at the Discovery Centre on the Park, based on ‘your place in history’. This could be a significant event in your life, a particular trip you really enjoyed or something that just represents you.

If you’d rather make your piece at home, you can drop it off to the Discovery and Exhibition Centre during your next visit, or send it in for the team to assemble. In order to break the record, we must use the official Guinness world record template which you can find on our Facebook page.

We need to receive the finished pieces before 3^rd June so that a bunting maze can be assembled in the events field in time for the Big Jubilee Lunch. Prizes will be awarded for the best bunting in several categories - so get crafting and come along to the Big Lunch and try and find your piece in the bunting maze!

To find out more about the Big Jubilee Lunch, take a look at our website.