Property News · March 25, 2017

Walk this way: inside the perfect spring garden


Hundreds of years in the making, the garden at the grade I-listed Rymans in West Sussex is a marvel – particularly when it comes to tulipsA historic grade I-listed house and its garden is not for the faint-hearted, especially when both are in a serious state of decline. Although the garden at Rymans, in the village of Apuldram, West Sussex, had near-perfect growing conditions, with its good, loamy soil and 600 years of cultivation, its potential was well-disguised when Suzanna Gayford moved in 21 years ago. The walled garden included a plantation of overgrown Christmas trees that had passed their harvest date, as well as a monstrous concrete fruit cage, described by Gayford as “the size of an elephant” and overrun with bindweed.“You’ve never seen anything like it,” she says now. “The roots were like coils of rope – we’re still dealing with their offspring.” Before Gayford could use her creative architect’s eye to design a new garden, the entire area had to be cleared and taken back to bare earth. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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