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FrazerHenderson

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Scampston
« on: July 18, 2011, 06:25:04 PM »
The Walled Garden at Scampston

Location: Malton, Yorkshire YO17 8NG.

Opening times: Apr-Oct (Tue-Sun 1000-170hrs daily)

Admission: £5 (though HHA members free, RHS, BBC 2 for 1)

Facilities: Fashionable, if a touch pricey, restaurant; booksales; craft sales; good plant sales area; plant fairs in Spring and Autumn; also a number of courses (painting and crafts); as well as exhibitions.

Gardens: 18th century walled garden reinterpreted wonderfully and imaginatively by Piet Oudolf so as to produce, possibly, the best 21st century walled garden in UK.
The garden comprises: a boundary plantsman’s walk along an avenue of limes before then entering a compartment of drifting grasses; then to what is known as, the Silent Garden containing clipped yews; next to a Box Garden before visiting the Cut Flower Garden and the adjoining Vegetable and Herb Gardens; a walk back pass bee hives and boles through into a Perennial Meadow alive with movement and insects; then into the serenity of a Katsura Grove underplanted with an abundance of woodlanders; through more clipped box to the delightful Serpentine Garden of clipped yew with undulating top lines; then onto the Mound to survey the garden before exploring further …and again… and again.

Information: great books available on the garden, and Piet Oudolf; informative planting booklet; inexpensive garden guide.

Contact details: www.scampston.co.uk
Telephone: 01944 759111
Email: info@scampston.co.uk
 
Henderson Rating: 4.7/5. [That’s how good this garden is!]

Excellent. Worth taking a helicopter out of the hangar to go down to Yorkshire just to see the garden on a day trip. Take your time marvelling at the subtlety of the plantings. This is a clever and absorbing garden all within 4 acres. Spent 4hrs ruminating, admiring and note-taking…great!
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Re: Scampston
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2011, 06:30:17 PM »
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FrazerHenderson

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Re: Scampston
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2011, 06:32:50 PM »
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FrazerHenderson

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Re: Scampston
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2011, 06:35:30 PM »
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Re: Scampston
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2011, 06:38:18 PM »
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Re: Scampston
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2011, 07:36:38 PM »
Frazer you have whetted my appetite, so many people have told us about Scampston, and we will be visiting in the Autumn.
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Re: Scampston
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2011, 09:01:24 PM »
Many thanks for sharing these superb places.
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