It is hard to exaggerate the effect
this beautiful park, with its red deer,
spectacular moated Hall in mellow patterned
red brick with its famous gardens will
have on the visitor. The whole combines
to give an extraordinary impression of beauty
and tranquillity. A classic parterre flanked
by hybrid musk roses lies before a stunning
walled kitchen garden with exquisite herbaceous
borders and beds of vegetables interspersed
by tunnels of sweet peas, runner beans and
gourds. On the other side lies a herd and
knot garden behind which is a rose garden
of unsurpassable beauty.
The
colour combinations in all these are in
immaculate taste and are both subtle and
very beautiful.
The
influence of the well-known garden designer
Xa Tollemache, is clearly visible - the
parterre was redesigned in 1987 and the
new rose garden to east of the coach house
was created in 1982, together with the knot
and herb garden.