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Abbeywood Estate in Cheshire is home to several garden rooms , include an exotic tropic garden that features plants from all over the man .
I explored the gardens with Simon Goodfellow , Head Gardener at Abbeywood .
I was particularly interested in hear how he has get by to attain such a noteworthy tropical gist in a garden this far north .
History Of Abbeywood
“ I ’ve been Head Gardener here at Abbeywood since 2009 , ” shares Simon .
“ It was originally a menage habitation , and the phratry have been here since 1987 .
“ The basic design had been localize in the consortium gardenand the old vegetable gardenby David Stevens , but when I started here , I put my own planting style and design everywhere and increased the size of the garden .
“ The layout has remain middling much the same since I started here in those areas .
“ Beyond those more formal area is my own design . ”
The Tropical Garden
“ The tropical alien garden is planted out anywhere from the eye of May to the death of May , depend on the atmospheric condition , ” Simon explains .
“ I go a lot from seed 15 year ago . I always try and get some interesting plants in there .
“ Even though some of the plants are not exotic , when they are put in combination with others , it gives an exotic feel .
“ In here isEucalyptus , which I have to pollard , otherwise it gets too big .
“ We implant someBromeliads in the palm trunksjust for the summertime . Some of them have work , some obviously do n’t like direct Lord’s Day because they burn , but it ’s interesting to see how they work .
“ We’vealso get some Bird of Paradise , which are just go over now , and footling florist shop ’s pineapples , which are an sum incentive for this year . ”
Exploring The Wider Estate
“ The Pool Garden originally have a formal parquet circle made up of corner , which we had to get rid of six years ago when the box blight place in , ” says Simon .
“ We decided to do something entirely different , so we ’ve got yewand copper beech tree , and then we ’ve tried a few thing in between .
“ There is always something blossom in between the shrubs for the rest of the yr .
“ The Pergola Walk was originally establish by David Stevens and I then widened the herbaceous borders so I could get more depth in the planting .
“ There ’s a beautiful wisteria here in give and then there ’s honeysuckle , clematis and roseson the pergola .
“ The prairie garden , with the big swathes of herbaceous plants and grasses , is looking adept now in July .
“ Where I ’d had just virginal block planting , thing have now serve themselves and joined in – it ’s all for the better , really . ”
How To Visit Abbeywood
“ It ’s the compliments you get from visitor that mean the most , ” Simon muses .
“ Sometimes you put in set of surd body of work and effort and you think , oh what am I doing this for , but in the end , it ’s worthwhile because it ’s bring pleasure to so many other mass . ”
To find out out more about opening times and how to confabulate , head over toAbbeywood ’s website .
