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East Lambrook Manor Gardens

A stunning privately owned Grade 1 listed garden which is renowned as the premier example of the English cottage garden. Please check their Web site for opening times.

East Lambrook Manor Gardens
East Lambrook
SOUTH PETHERTON
Somerset
TA13 5HH

Telephone

01460 240328

5 Stars

Aug 2015

I have some new inspiration

Not any old garden but actually the garden created by the pioneer of the traditional cottage garden…. Marjory Fish , 77 years ago….
The intensity of the planting took my breath away – the sheer variety of shapes, sizes and colours, shoulder to shoulder with each other so that you cannot see the earth is stunning. This is a place that will amaze even the least green fingered of us. With Manor in the title I had a preconception of formal lawns, demure statues and marble benches and wide pathways. Not so, this was a forest, a deliberate jungle.

Best of all is that this tranquil place is literally minutes off the A303 – a perfect easy stop off for anyone on the long journey down into the West Country. There is a little café at East Lambrook Manor and across the road a really good pub.

My garden, such as it is, is a little desert by comparison but now, even though it is a very small space, I have some new inspiration.

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3 Stars

Mar 2009

There's lots to see in these cottage-style gardens and it was great to have so many plants for sale!

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