Goldstone Hall Hotel & Gardens: 2025 Opening Dates and Exciting Events Announced

Multi award winning Goldstone Hall Hotel & Garden, North Shropshire, as seen recently on BBC Gardeners World Winter Special 2024, will open their award winning garden to non-residents from Monday to Thursday on 24th March to 31st October 2025. They have also launched a series of educational events for 2025 including ‘Gardening Through the Seasons’ workshops teaching students a variety of gardening techniques and ‘A Taste of Series’ showcasing their one acre productive kitchen garden, their plot to plate ethos & the variety of Shropshire flavours available.

GARDENING THROUGH THE SEASONS WORKSHOPS 2025

1.Workshop Title: Seed Sowing and Propagation Workshop

Date: Wednesday 19th March 2025, 9.30am -2.00pm

Cost: £70.00 per person

Discount: £56.00 per person for RHS members (20% discount)

Workshop Description

Head Gardener, Ross Underwood, will lead attendees through a variety of propagation techniques for a range of different plants within the garden. Attendees will be able to take many of the plants they propagate home, plus gain new skills to continue in their own garden.

Includes: Tea /coffee on arrival with a Shropshire butter bun, finishing with a Gardeners lunch.

Booking Link:- https://goldstonehallhotel.co.uk/event/seed-sowing-propagation-2/

2.Workshop Title: Planning the Summer Garden Workshop

Date: Wednesday 14th May 2025, 9.30am -2.00pm

Cost: £70.00 per person

Discount: £56.00 per person for RHS members (20% discount)

Workshop Description

Join Goldstone for an engaging workshop where attendees will explore planning the summer garden.

It will start with a guided tour to showcase the diversity of garden styles, followed by a hands-on session focusing on the maintenance of the herbaceous borders. Attendees will learn techniques such as staking, tying, and the renowned Chelsea chop, along with sowing late-flowering annuals and taking cuttings from late-summer perennials like salvias.

In the vegetable garden, Kitchen gardener, Sarah, will guide attendees through preparing seed beds, direct sowing, and planting techniques for crops like brassicas, which require specific ground preparation. Plus, there will be a chance to pot up a plant to take home.

Includes: Tea /coffee on arrival with a Shropshire butter bun, finishing with a Gardeners lunch.

Booking Link:- https://goldstonehallhotel.co.uk/event/planning-and-planting-out/

3.Workshop Title: Winter & Spring Planters Workshop

Date: Wednesday 9th October 2025, 9.30am -2.00pm

Cost: £70.00 per person

Discount: £56.00 per person for RHS members (20% discount)

Workshop Description

Head Gardener, Ross Underwood, will lead attendees through a variety of ways to create colourful winter and spring containers and planters for the garden including bulbs, perennials and veg for the winter season.

Includes: Tea /coffee on arrival with a Shropshire butter bun, finishing with a Gardeners lunch.

Booking Link:- https://goldstonehallhotel.co.uk/event/winter-spring-planters-workshop/

TASTE OF SERIES 2025

  1. Event Title: A Taste of Spring

Date: Wednesday 30th April 2025, 10.30am-3.00pm

Cost: £65.00 per person

Discount: £52.00 per person for RHS members (20% discount)

Workshop Description

Join Head Gardener, Ross Underwood, and Kitchen Gardener, Sarah Smith-Roe, for a guided Garden Tour exploring the award-winning garden and one-acre kitchen garden with its bountiful spring produce. This will be followed by a delicious, seasonally inspired tasting menu showcasing the best of Goldstone terroir.

Itinerary

10.30am – Guided Garden Tour

12.30pm – Seasonal tasting lunch

3.00pm – Finish

Additional Information: Pathways are gravel and grass for the garden tour. Disabled access for dining. Diners will be seated together.

 Booking link: https://goldstonehallhotel.co.uk/event/a-taste-of-spring-2/

  1. Event Title: A Taste of Midsummer

Date: Thursday 12th June 2025, 10.30am-3.00pm

Cost: £65.00 per person

Discount: £52.00 per person for RHS members (20% discount)

Workshop Description

Join Head Gardener, Ross Underwood, and Kitchen Gardener, Sarah Smith-Roe, for a guided Garden Tour exploring the award-winning garden and one-acre kitchen garden with its bountiful summer produce. This will be followed by a delicious, seasonally inspired tasting menu showcasing the best of Goldstone terroir and local artisanal food and drink.

Itinerary

10.30am – Guided Garden Tour

12.30pm – Seasonal tasting lunch

3.00pm – Finish

 Additional Information: Pathways are gravel and grass for the garden tour. Disabled access for dining. Diners will be seated together.

Booking link: https://goldstonehallhotel.co.uk/event/a-taste-of-midsummer-3/

  1. Event Title: A Taste of Late Summer

Date: Thursday 14th August 2025 10.30am-3.00pm

Cost: £65.00 per person

Discount: £52.00 per person for RHS members (20% discount)

Workshop Description

Join Head Gardener, Ross Underwood, and Kitchen Gardener, Sarah Smith-Roe, for a guided Garden Tour exploring the award-winning garden and one-acre kitchen garden with its bountiful summer produce. This will be followed by a delicious, seasonally inspired tasting menu showcasing the best of Goldstone terroir & local artisanal food and drink.

Itinerary

10.30am – Guided Garden Tour

12.30pm – Seasonal tasting lunch

3.00pm – Finish

 Additional Information: Pathways are gravel and grass for the garden tour. Disabled access for dining. Diners will be seated together.

Booking link: https://goldstonehallhotel.co.uk/event/a-taste-of-midsummer-2/

  1. Event Title: A Taste of Autumn and Spice

Date: Thursday 25th September 2025 10.30am-3.00pm

Cost: £65.00 per person

Discount: £52.00 per person for RHS members (20% discount)

Workshop Description

Join Head Gardener, Ross Underwood, and Kitchen Gardener, Sarah Smith-Roe,  for a guided Garden Tour exploring the award-winning garden and one-acre kitchen garden with its bountiful produce. This will be followed by a delicious, seasonally inspired spicy tasting menu showcasing the best of Goldstone terroir & local artisanal food and drink. In collaboration with local food and drink celebration the Ginger & Spice Festival.

Itinerary

10.30am – Guided Garden Tour

12.30pm – Seasonal spicy tasting lunch

3.00pm – Finish

 Additional Information: Pathways are gravel and grass for the garden tour. Disabled access for dining. Diners will be seated together. Spices will be included in the menu.

 Booking link: https://goldstonehallhotel.co.uk/event/a-taste-of-autumn-and-spice/

 How to book

To book onto any of their workshops or events, please either visit the What’s On section of the website and go to the online booking portal, or send an email enquiries@goldstonehall.com or telephone 01630 661202.

For more information about their calendar of events for 2025, please visit their website www.goldstonehall.com and go to What’s On.

Goldstone Hall Hotel and Garden

The multi award winning, Goldstone Hall, is an independent, family run 12 bedroom country house hotel, restaurant and garden located in the picturesque rolling timbered pastures of North Shropshire. The hotel provides a warm, friendly, and welcoming atmosphere for all guests, whether visiting to stay, dine, celebrate, or unwind. Its charm reflects the surrounding countryside and the family’s personal touch. In winter 2024, the bedrooms are being thoughtfully upgraded, blending character and individuality with contemporary flair, in association with designer’s styling of Andrew Martin and Nina Campbell.

 Restaurant

The hotel’s acclaimed restaurant, proudly holding AA two rosettes for culinary excellence, an AA Breakfast Award, and a place on the AA Notable Wine List, features a diverse, seasonal menu expertly crafted using produce from its abundant one-acre kitchen garden. This includes a variety of heritage and heirloom vegetables, herbs, fruits, and spices, all celebrated for their distinctive local flavours. Unique cultivars of edible plants such as oca, yacón, and Szechuan pepper add an interesting and exciting twist to the menu and taste experience, further reflecting the restaurant’s commitment to innovation and quality.

In 2024 the kitchen garden has yielded over 1,000 kilos of produce including rhubarb for 1,000 crumbles, 500 bottles of apple juice, 500 bulbs of garlic and even 3kgs of Szechuan pepper for a sweet chilli sauce.

This one acre productive kitchen garden sits inside a magnificent 5-acre site affiliated as an RHS Partner Garden. It has been owned and run for 40 years, currently by John and Sue Cushing with their daughters Victoria and Katie, who ensure that traditional hospitality meets contemporary sophistication.

 Goldstone Gardens

The Goldstone Hall multi award winning gardens are mature and intriguingly designed, including formal and informal planting, encapsulating the essence of a quintessential English garden. Overlooking the tree-strewn rolling countryside, the site includes a walled garden, rose terrace, double tiered herbaceous borders, cutting garden, wooded walk, wild flower garden, fragrant arches, unique herbal walkways and productive one a acre kitchen garden. The kitchen garden is currently being expanded and re-developed for 2025 along with a new sustainable composting area so that ‘best practice’ can be shared with garden visitors. Additionally a new plant sales area will commence in May 2025.

Goldstone Meadows

Goldstone’s nearby 10 acre meadows—an untouched expanse of pastureland with a tranquil brook—invites guests to stroll and savour the peace and quiet of the countryside. Foraging in hedgerows and meadows has yielded “Ladies Smock,” also known as Cardamine pratensis, wild hop, wild sorrel, wild garlic and ‘Jack in the hedge’ also known as garlic mustard plant or Alliaria petiolata. For winter 2024/2025 drainage works are taking place to enable the feasibility of a vineyard in part of it.

The garden has been designed for relaxation, celebration and enjoyment and is the perfect setting for admiring the well thought out landscaping and planting. The gardens at Goldstone Hall Hotel were initiated by John Cushing’s mother, Helen Ward, who channelled her passion for gardening into transforming the wilderness that was.

The garden is now expertly managed by Head Gardener, Ross Underwood, whose extensive horticultural experience includes roles at Bridgemere Gardens, David Austin Roses, and Hodnet Hall Gardens. A passionate plantsman with RHS Level III certification, Ross also serves as a Trustee for the Dorothy Clive Gardens and is a regular voice on local BBC Radio Shropshire Gardeners’ Show. Ross is supported by Kitchen Gardener, Sarah Smith-Roe, who oversees the development of the one-acre productive kitchen garden. Sarah, who previously worked in pharmacy for 18 years, has recently qualified with an RHS Level 2 certification from Ryton College.

Goldstone is an RHS partner garden, a member of the BBC Gardeners’ World 2for1 Scheme, and a member of the Garden Organic Heritage Seed Library Scheme. The garden also opens for the National Garden Scheme annually.

 Garden Opening

During 2025 the Goldstone garden is open to non-residents every Monday to Thursday from 24th March to 31st October 2025 with the exception of National Garden Scheme open days and any privately booked special event days (see website). Opening Times: 10am to 5pm on normal days.  The garden is also open to guests of Goldstone whether they are staying overnight or simply in the restaurant for lunch, dinner or afternoon tea all year round. The Goldstone restaurant is open all year round.

Garden Admission

In 2025 the entrance price to the garden is £8.50 per adult and children are free of charge. RHS members are admitted for free (member 1 only) and BBC Gardeners’ World 2for1 Card Holders also during the garden open season. Both must present their cards on entry.  Hotel and restaurants guests, plus their children, are admitted free of charge. Visitors may reserve a table in the restaurant for lunch or afternoon tea, but must book this in advance by calling the reservations team on 01630 661 202. Visitors are  also very welcome to visit the bar or orangery to buy a cup of tea, coffee, other drink, and a slice of cake – booking for this is not necessary.

Awards, Features and Testimonials

Goldstone Hall Hotel recently featured on BBC Gardeners’ World Winter Special, episode 3:- “Goldstone Hall garden is alive in every sense. Wow, how about this for a herb garden! It is like no other herb garden I have ever seen, it’s just glorious.” Carol Klein, BBC Gardener’s World Winter Special 2024.

In 2024 Goldstone was awarded Silver in the ‘Small Serviced Accommodation Provider of the Year’ category of the West Midlands Tourism Awards 2024 and has again been shortlisted in ‘Small Serviced Accommodation Provider of the Year’ in 2025 awards (results to be announced in 2025) . Goldstone has also been awarded AA 2 rosettes for culinary excellence, AA Hotel Services Breakfast Award, 3 RED Star AA award and is included in the AA Notable Wine List.

Goldstone was featured in the Good Hotel Guide Editor’s choice for gardens in 2024 and have also been featured as:

  • One of ‘10 best British hotels with beautiful gardens’ in English Garden Magazine.
  • One of the ‘Top 10 UK hotels and hideaways with landscaped gardens’ in the Observer.
  • One of ‘Britain’s 20 loveliest hotel gardens’ by the Telegraph Travel
  • One of the ‘10 of the Top UK Hotels with Gorgeous Gardens’ by Luxury Lifestyle Magazine.
  • One of seven gardens featured in ‘Top of the Plots’ article in RHS The Garden Magazine.
  • One of ‘10 best British hotels with beautiful gardens’ by Discover Britain Magazine.
  • ‘One of the largest hotel kitchen Gardens in the UK’ by RHS The Garden Magazine

The Goldstone hotel and garden has also been featured in The RHS Garden Magazine, Gardens Illustrated, Garden News, Great British Gardens, Gardeners’ World Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Cotswold Life Magazine, Cheshire Life Magazine, Waitrose Weekend Magazine, Sainsbury’s Magazine, The English Garden Magazine, BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine, Women’s Weekly, Horticulture Week and on the BBC Radio, plus local media such as the Shropshire Star and BBC Radio Shropshire.

For more information about Goldstone Hall Hotel, or to enquire about bookings, or any further information, please contact the team on 01630 661202 or email enquiries@goldstonehall.com.

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Goldstone Hall Hotel, Restaurant and Garden

  • Goldstone Hall is a country house hotel and restaurant with a magnificent, award-winning garden. It is also the perfect location for wedding ceremonies, celebrations and parties in which guests can have exclusive use.
  • Recently shortlisted in the ‘Small Serviced Accommodation Provider of the Year’ category of the West Midlands Tourism Awards 2025
  • Featured in BBC Gardeners’ World Winter Special, episode 3, 2024 .
  • Featured as one of ‘10 best British hotels with beautiful gardens’: https://www.britain-magazine.com/features/10-best-british-hotels-with-beautiful-gardens/
  • Goldstone Hall Hotel Garden is a RHS Partner Garden and offers seasonal treats and RHS Garden breaks throughout the year. https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/GardenDetails/goldstone-hall-hotel-gardens
  • Goldstone Hall Hotel is also a suitable setting to host business meetings and presentations throughout the week.
  • The multi award winning hotel was awarded Silver in the ‘Small Serviced Accommodation Provider of the Year’ category of the West Midlands Tourism Awards 2024 and is listed in Good Hotel Guide 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, also Editor’s Choice of the GHG for Gardens 2024, 2022, 2020; has AA 2 rosettes for culinary excellence 2023, 2022; AA Hotel Services Breakfast Award 2023, 2022, 2019; has 3 RED Star AA award; as well as wining ‘Gold’ in small hotel of the year.
  • Goldstone Hall Hotel runs seasonal events and RHS Garden breaks throughout the year.
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 1630 661202
  • Email: enquiries@goldstonehall.com
  • Website: goldstonehall.com
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