INTRODUCTION | HISTORY | THE FRONT GARDEN | THE ITALIANATE PLEASURE GARDEN |
THE OLD KITCHEN GARDEN | THE FOOT PATH
Entering
the walled garden, by a door in the eastern wall, visitors
proceeding down the gravel slope see the 17th century
Italianate pleasure garden immediately to their right.
Above the lawn there are three ponds
with fountains and seventeenth century terraces, clipped
box hedges, ancient yews and a Japanese style summer
house built by the 5th Lord Camoys, following his visit
to Kyoto in 1906.
From the long herbaceous and mixed border
at the top of the garden there are views, through the
iron gates, of the northern slope up to the woods. In
April this area, known as Grandmother's Garden, has
swathes of daffodils and in May a large area of Pheasant
Eye Narcissi which gives off a wonderful scent. Looking
back across the house the visitor has a wonderful view
of the hill opposite and down the valley to the South
West. Looking down onto the many different roof tops
of the house illustrates its gradual development over
three and a half centuries until 1600.
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