The English Garden January 2024 - Sample Issue

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JANUARY 2024

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Beatrix Potter’s inspiration, ancient topiary & more

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How Ellen Willmott made a garden for

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Baroque PLEASURES

Step into the glorious time capsule of Ven House in Somerset, to discover a tranquil and superbly preserved example of a garden style that has become vanishingly rare in this country since its late 17th century heyday WORDS AMBRA EDWARDS PHOTOGRAPHS CLIVE NICHOLS

Sheltered by old red brick walls, the cutting garden at Ven House is packed with a riotous mix of peonies, alliums, foxgloves and iris.

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A new, ornate Belvedere now overlooks the sloping Walled Garden at Dumfries House, the Scottish base of The Prince’s Foundation.

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The Royal TREATMENT

Thanks to the vision and attention of His Majesty King Charles III, and the efforts of a team of volunteers and staff, the 600-acre gardens at Ayrshire’s Dumfries House have been transformed into a beautiful and productive community asset WORDS ANTOINETTE GALBRAITH PHOTOGRAPHS RAY COX JANUARY 2024 THE ENGLISH GARDEN 35

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Mauve catmint and maroon knautia, aquilegia and lupins – these cottage garden favourites give this garden a laidback charm.

A Tale To Tell

Frequently visited by Beatrix Potter and the setting of The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies, Gwaenynog Hall in Denbighshire retains its storybook charm thanks to the efforts of Potter’s great-great niece, Janie Smith, Janie’s daughter Frances – and some very determined rabbits WORDS LOUISE CURLEY PHOTOGRAPHS JOE WAINWRIGHT

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Sunshine-yellow daylilies throng cheerfully at the foot of a wigwam scaled by a clematis, while fruit trees edge pollinatorfriendly perennial borders.

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Set In Aspic Levens Hall in Cumbria is that rarest of beasts: a formal 17th century garden that didn’t follow fashion through horticulture’s Romantic era, instead retaining its intensely structural, topiary-based layout to offer a tantalising glimpse of the past WORDS STEPHEN ANDERTON PHOTOGRAPHS JOE WAINWRIGHT

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This image Layers of

mature trees, shrubs and rhododendrons surround a stone statue.

Opposite A view across the serene wildflowerfringed lake and paddock to the house.

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