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GARDENS
Groups looking for a great gardens
itinerary really need to include Suffolk in
their programme.
F
resort of the East coast
elixstowe is known as the “Garden
Gardens along the seafront appear on
”: the Spa
the Historic P
win prizes in Anglia in Bloom. In the
arks Register and regularly
west of the county
Abbey Gardens have won many awards,
, Bury St Edmunds’
including ‘Best L
Bloom 2007.
arge Town’ in Britain in
In addition to these public gardens,
many of the county
have fine gardens open for groups:
’s historic houses
Ickworth House, P
gardens surrounding this iconic 18th
ark and Gardens. The
century National T
ABBEY GARDENS, BURY ST EDMUNDS
Bury St Edmunds feature a stumpery
rust property near
raised terrace walk and a croquet lawn.
, a
In addition to the gardens there are
1,800 acres of woodland and parkland.
Playford Hall’s award-winning 10-acre
gardens near W
toured with the owner as part of the
oodbridge can be
‘Invitation to View
include a lake, lawns, trees, rose
’ scheme. The gardens
gardens, herbaceous borders, shrub
borders, herbs and an attractive
miniature F
garden.
rench château-style vegetable
Somerleyton Hall, originally a Jacobean
manor
Anglo-Italian style. In the extensive
, was remodelled in 1844, to the
gardens, the beds have been planted
with many marginal plants including
hostas, ligularias and iris eupatorium
theum. A popular feature is the yew
hedge maze, one of the finest in Britain,
designed by W
celebrated landscape gardener
illiam Nesfield, the
planted in 1846.
, and
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