Borde Hill Estate

Set over 2000 acres on Sussex’s High Weald, Borde Hill is an estate with national botanical importance. At its heart sits our Elizabethan mansion house, rebuilt in the 16th century by Stephen Borde, grandson of Henry VIII’s private herbalist, Andrew Borde. A belief in the power of plants runs deep here – to nourish, to nurture and to cure.

For five generations, the Stephenson-Clarke family have been Borde Hill’s custodians, seeking out and cultivating rare plants and champion trees, shaping them into the ‘garden rooms’ for which we are known today – including the Garden of Allah, where Isca’s namesake, the Magnolia x Veitchii ‘Isca’, stands supreme.

Our kitchen forages and preserves many of the wild plants that grow on the estate, from wild garlic to myrtle and the magnolia flowers which we dry and add to our signature magnolia margaritas.