Gardens to visit in spring and summer – Easton Walled Garden

In the past couple of years, a long-lost, and long-neglected garden has become a significant attraction in the county of Lincolnshire. Easton Walled Gardens were worked continuously for more than four centuries, until the site was virtually abandoned in the 1950s, having fallen into neglect during the Second World War. It is said that President Roosevelt was so inspired by these gardens in their heyday that he modelled his own house and grounds on them.

The revival started in 2004, and so far, twelve acres of the garden have been rediscovered and revived. The Cholmeley family has owned the site for fourteen generations, and was responsible for the abandonment of the garden when Easton Hall was pulled down – now the same family is recreating this ancestral horticultural landscape.

Set in beautiful parkland, the revived gardens currently offer a very pleasing spring experience, based on the garden’s mature trees, ornamental stone work, snowdrops and a cut-flower garden. However, new features are being created or rediscovered almost continually. There are two distinct parts to the garden. The largest part is full of snowdrops, meadow plantings, big borders, a yew tunnel and wildflower terraces. The second part, beginning with the tea rooms, is very much designed with visitors in mind. It contains ideas to take home and try out in your own garden and houses pickery (or cut flower garden), the cottage garden with its little potager, two glasshouses, plant collections and a thirty metre bulb border which includes a daffodil collection as well as alliums and lilies.

Easton Walled Garden photograph by Rivertay, used under a creative commons attribution licence

 

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