Howick Hall Gardens has been awarded Garden of the Year 2009 by Gardens Illustrated and the Garden Museum.
This is what Tom Stuart-Smith, LANDSCAPE DESIGNER, said about Howick hall Gardens:
"This place is a living ark, a gene bank of material from all over the world, planted
through 65 acres of grounds surrounding the house, and meticulously documented. Charles, Lord Howick, has planted more than 11,000 trees and shrubs with around 1,800 different species, all of them grown from seed collected in the wild, sometimes by Charles himself. The new planting is so subtly woven into the landscape that if you didn’t know the back-story you might miss it. The setting of the Howick estate is astoundingly beautiful. The 18th-century house overlooks the Howick Burn and the plantings are arranged either side of this in a long valley. You wander through groves of mature beech and young plantings. Eventually you are lured along a gradually descending valley that finally opens
out on a wide headland with the crashing sea below. When so many of our gardening endeavours are instant fixes, this garden is an antidote to the quick gratification of the makeover garden and the tourist honeypot. In a world where our horizon is, at best, centred on our own lifespan, it is a great gulp of fresh air off the North Sea. The ultimate in slow gardening."
"This place is a living ark, a gene bank of material from all over the world, planted
through 65 acres of grounds surrounding the house, and meticulously documented. Charles, Lord Howick, has planted more than 11,000 trees and shrubs with around 1,800 different species, all of them grown from seed collected in the wild, sometimes by Charles himself. The new planting is so subtly woven into the landscape that if you didn’t know the back-story you might miss it. The setting of the Howick estate is astoundingly beautiful. The 18th-century house overlooks the Howick Burn and the plantings are arranged either side of this in a long valley. You wander through groves of mature beech and young plantings. Eventually you are lured along a gradually descending valley that finally opens
out on a wide headland with the crashing sea below. When so many of our gardening endeavours are instant fixes, this garden is an antidote to the quick gratification of the makeover garden and the tourist honeypot. In a world where our horizon is, at best, centred on our own lifespan, it is a great gulp of fresh air off the North Sea. The ultimate in slow gardening."
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