Rooftop Garden Hotel: Stunning Views &Fresh Produce

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Bees & Kitchen Garden

St. Ermin’s’ roofs are literally alive with activity, bees producing honey and a kitchen garden providing fresh produce.

Our Bee Terrace on the third-floor roof is home to gentle Buckfast bees, which guests can observe safely from behind glass. Just beyond, our rooftop kitchen garden is bursting with fresh fruit and vegetables—much of which, like our honey, makes its way straight to our kitchens.

The garden isn’t just a source of seasonal produce—it’s also a peaceful breakout space enjoyed daily by both our kitchen team and our bees, who share a love of foraging.

Our Bees

From the rooftops of London to the wilds of Exmoor, our bees thrive in two distinct but connected environments—urban and rural, both rooted in purpose.

In London, the third-floor Bee Terrace offers a vital sanctuary for pollinators, with hives of gentle Buckfast bees and a dedicated Bee & Bee Hotel for solitary species. Guests can view the terrace from the glass walkway for a closer look at our urban colony in action.

In Exmoor, our out-apiary provides a pesticide-free haven where bees forage freely across wildflower meadows and ancient woodlands.

Though worlds apart, both sites share a single mission: to protect pollinators and support the ecosystems we all rely on.

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Our Kitchen Garden

Our rooftop has been transformed into a fertile space, where tomatoes, squash, pumpkin, spring onions, French beans, potatoes, olives, clementines, apples, plums, raspberries and blackberries are being cultivated in specially designed beds and pots. Alongside this abundance of fresh produce, there is an extensive herb garden and a greenhouse.

Plants & Gardens

Green spaces are rare on any London property. We protect and enhance our property's biodiversity by preserving every green space, planting native vegetation, and creating habitats for local wildlife. With the help of our Gardeners Calistoga Growers we have invested huge time and effort planting to help our rooftop hives and all pollinators flourish. We’ve introduced bee friendly plants on every possible space.

Here’s a list of some of the plants flourishing in our gardens:

OREGON GRAPE Mahonia acquifolium

JAPANESE MAPLE Acer palmitum

RIVER BIRCH Betula Nigra

CHERRY Prunus avium

AGAPANTHUS Agapanthus Africanus

WISTERIA Wisteria sinensis

SALVIA Salvia Officinalis

HELLEBORE Helleborus

JAPANESE ARALIA Fatsia japonica

JAPANESE ARALIA ‘TSUMUGI-SHIBORI’ Fatsia japonica ‘Spider’s Web’

MALE FERN Dryopteris filix-mas

EUPHORBIA Euphorbiaceae

ACER Aceraceae

BAMBOO Bambusa vulgaris

SWEET BRIAR ROSE Rosa rubiginosa

BEAR’S BREECH Acanthus mollis

BIG BLUE LILYTURF Liriope muscari

TURKISH SAGE Phlomis russeliana

WINDMILL PALM Trachycarpus fortunei

JAPANESE CAMELIA Camelia japonica

SPINDLE Euonymus europaeus

LESSER PERIWINKLE Vinca minor

CLEMATIS Clematis Viticella

SAGE Salvia ‘Amistad’

HYDRANGEA Hydrangea macrophylla

PANICLE HYDRANGEA Hydrangea paniculata

CORAL BELLS Heuchera

SIBERIAN BUGLOSS Brunnera Macrophylla

BIG-ROOT CRANESBILL Geranium macrorrhizum

HEAVENLY BAMBOO Nandina domestica

BITTER ORANGE Citrus aurantium

MAIDENHAIR VINE Muehlenbeckia

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