Re: Chelsea Show and Europe - and North America
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- Subject: Re: Chelsea Show and Europe - and North America
- From: L*
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 07:04:07 +0100
Here in the UK, my favourite garden is Wakehurst Place,
which is Kew Gardens in the Country. In the 1960s, Kew
Gardens ran out of space for all the planting they wanted to
do, so they looked around for somewhere they could expand
to, and they were offered by the National Trust Wakehurst
Place in Sussex. It's in the most beautiful natural
setting. The Elizabethan manor house is at the top of the
site, with the 200 odd acres falling very steeply from the
house in quite deep ravines. The gardens are set out in
different world plant zones, so for example, you can walk
through an Asian heath garden, American beech and birch
woods, a Himalayan glade. Up nearer the house are
herbaceous borders in the walled garden, and many newly
planted perennial beds. (Much of the new planting is as a
result of the 1987 storm, when 10,000 trees were lost on the
estate.) To my way of thinking, it's much better than Kew
Gardens itself. It's also the site of the Millennium Seed
Bank, which is due to open this summer.
Being one of those people who are in Europe who can see
relatively easily some of these gardens that have been
mentioned, I would be very interested to know what gardens
in North America that are open to the public, list members
find inspirational. And why they find them an inspiration.
Louise English, Surrey, England
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