What to see in April
25 March 2025
Longer daylight hours and warm spring sunshine, inbetween rain showers, mean that the gardens are really beginning to wake up from their winter slumber.
April is an exciting month at Furzey Gardens as the colours on display become more varied and particularly vibrant.
As you enter the gardens, the view across the top lawn hints at the delights which await you on your stroll around the gardens. Magnolia, Corylopsis and a number of rhododendron and azalea are already in flower preparing us for the dizzy heights of vibrant colours we can expect later in the month.
Pathway through Magnolia and Camellia
Magnolia soulanga alba
In bloom during the earlier part of the month are our magnificent magnolia trees, including magnolia stellata and magnolia kobus and Magnolia soulanga alba, the flowers dance brightly as their branches sway gently in the breeze.
Around the garden you can begin to enjoy the riot of colour from our collection of azaleas and rhododendrons. Rhododendron Racemosum offers rose pink flowers, whilst Azalea luteum shows beautiful bright yellow flowers which are highly scented and attractive to bees.
Rhododendron racemosum
Small yellow flowers of Corylopsis Pauciflora
When you visit this month, make sure to pick up our Spring plants of interest leaflet from our welcome team. This is full of our spring highlights including the unusual sight of the Judas tree, sercis siliquastrum. The flowers of the Judas tree grow straight out of the trunk and branches of the tree.
Also on our list of highlights is one of our original specimens, Osmanthus delavayi- an evergreen shrub with scented white jasmine like flowers.
Peacock butterly on flowering heather
Bright pink flowers of Judas tree, Sercis siliquastrum.
If you are looking for a family trip out, our Arty Eggs Easter trail will keep the family entertained. Discover 20 artist decorated eggs hidden around the garden and claim an Easter treat at the end. Trail runs from 5 – 21 April. Trail costs £3, plus normal garden entrance donation applies.
The gardens and tea rooms are open seven days a week, 10am – 4pm from 1 April. During our peak season and throughout the summer we will no longer allow dogs in the gardens, only assistance dogs on a lead.