Spent 3 hours today at the gardens bank holiday Stringalong event. 4/5 different bands playing and a jam session at the end - I good afternoon out and the best... read more fiver I've spent all year. Great musicians in a nice setting and plus time to wander around the gardens. Loved the holly maze and overall layout of the gardens but they do need to get a few volunteers to sort out the weeds.

  Beautiful oasis for all including dogs permitted on leads. £5 ad and £1 per child (July 2020 admission)....run by volunteers and it needs your support!

Lovely different... read more themed sections set amongst the walled perimeter.

Covid secure, huge marquee for events.

Will be back for future events and family/friends picnics.

  Whilst not oozing with many myriads of beauty and viviacious colour, Castle Bromwich hall gardens is a very neat, well-maintained collection of horticulture, which serves as a pint-sized (you get... read more the impression they do all they absolutley can with what they've got), chilled out pause of greenary stuck in the middle of the frenetic movements of motorways and suburbia.
They've curated their nature very well and in doing so have created a mellow ambience, one which reflects the hall so much you fully expect a wealthy Victorian to emerge from the house to inspect his gardens!

One quibble though is the maze. Leaving aside my struggles to complete it, I was rather perturbed by the prickles and thorns that overhung the shubbery and grazed my being. This wasn't so bad bneath skies that demanded the wearing of long sleeves and trousers, but I imagine on balmier days that demand a decreasing of clothimg, they may prick exposed flesh rather sharply.

Despite living almost on its doorstep,this was my first trip to this cheaply-priced sanctuary, and now I've discovered it, it won't be my last.

  Just been to the unplug and play activity day and it was just brilliant! So much to see and do, gardens are beautiful and staff were so friendly. Will now... read more be purchasing an annual pass so we can enjoy it all year round.