Valley Gardens

It was J.B. Stevenson of Tower Court who urged the selection of the Kurume azaleas for the Punch Bowl and it was his famous collection of rhododendrons which was added to the Gardens in the 1940s after his death.

Many residents from Berkshire and Surrey and all the parishes around Windsor Great Park opposed this scheme.

They were joined by a nationwide and international protest from all those who know and love the gardens as a magnificent and unique woodland landscape.

The Crown Estate will conduct "extended monitoring of horticultural and landscape management issues over the next few years.

Other proposals ...such as the provision of a land train, children's adventure play area and closure of the Valley Gardens car park are also subject to further review".

The view from the Plunket Memorial at the top of the Main Valley down to Virginia Water