There have been gardens on this site since 1622, when the original manor house was built by James Lewkenor. In 1804, when the current house was built, the gardens were enlarged and park was laid out, and the kitchen garden was moved to its present position and enclosed by walls.
Many of the existing mature beeches, [...]
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Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Kent & Chichester 2018
West Dean Gardens
2 Comments CherryPie on May 27th 2021
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Out & About
Dorothy Clive Gardens…
… on a sunny Sunday afternoon
The garden’s initial creation lay in Colonel Harry Clive’s wartime decision of 1940, to provide his ailing wife – Dorothy – with a ‘series of interesting walks’ as she battled with Parkinson’s disease. Unfortunately Dorothy died in 1942 but Colonel Clive continued work apace throughout the 1940s and 1950s, especially [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Apr 19th 2021
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Post Lockdown Haircut…
… followed by the arrival of my new garden bench and later fine dining at Chez Nous.
11 Comments CherryPie on Apr 14th 2021
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Hodnet Hall on Easter Monday
The weather was lovely and sunny albeit a little chilly for an enjoyable afternoon walk around Hodnet Hall Gardens. The teashop was open so we were able to enjoy afternoon tea in the garden. I chose elderflower and gooseberry cake accompanied by elderflower presse. The gardens were looking particularly spectacular and I am looking forward [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 5th 2021
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Stanton Manor 2020
The Walled Garden, Berkeley Castle
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 20th 2021
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Stanton Manor 2020
Stanton Manor Garden
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 10th 2020
Filed under Gardens, Harrogate 2020, Heritage, Holidays
Brodsworth Hall Gardens
Take a stroll in the labyrinthine ‘grand gardens in miniature’ now restored to their Victorian heyday. Enjoy the garden vistas and discover enchanting features like the pleasure grounds with their fountain centrepiece or the classical summerhouse or the fern dell and pet cemetery.
With snowdrops and winter evergreens, spring tulips and laburnum and summer roses and [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 29th 2020
