Forde Abbey, four miles south east of Chard, offers a fascinating history, a stately home full of rare treasures and, above all, one of the oldest and finest gardens in the south west of England. The abbey is particularly famed for its massive walled kitchen garden, full of colourful flowers, interesting vegetables and tender fruits…
East Lambrook was the home of Margery Fish, the mother of English cottage gardening. Margery Fish’s articles and books are so popular that they are rarely out of print. Her ideas shaped gardening to the economic realities of post-war Britain, opening the joys of plants and simple design from a preserve of the rich to…
Kiftsgate Court sits on top of Glyde Hill in the Wiltshire Cotswolds. The house was finished at the end of the nineteenth century and the garden is the twentieth century product of three generations of women and their families: Helen Muir, her daughter Diana Binny and her daughter, the current owner, Anne Chambers. The garden…
Bishop’s Palace was built in 1206 by Bishop Jocelin Trotman, first Bishop of Bath and Wells. Bishops still live in the Palace’s old servant quarters and have opened most of the palace and grounds are open to visitors. For 800 years the Bishops have used these gardens to relax and contemplate, often to indulging their…
The Jardin des Plantes (Botanical Garden), located close to the historical centre of Nantes and the recently upgraded promenade along the embankments of the Loire, is a centrepiece in Nantes’ strategy as a “city within a garden”. The park was created by Louis XIV during the 17th century. In the 18th century, Louis XV made…
The garden’s of Mapperton house in Dorset are one of the regions most unique and romantic gardens. Mapperton began as a formal Edwardian Italianate garden where nature has been allowed to encroach and soften its sharp edges. Like a creation from a fairy tale it unfolds down the valley, seamlessly becoming one with the rolling…
The EGHN website invites you to visit two new gardens and to learn more about their history and design. The new EGHN partners are: Schlosspark Evenburg, Leer (Germany) Love Garden, Bolonia (Spain) Further presentations are under preparation: Kloster Lorsch (Germany) und Kasteeltuinen Arcen (Netherlands)
During the last few months the EGHN has been redesigned. We hope that you will enjoy the fresh design and new options. As major innovations, you will find: – all information about a garden on one page – on each garden page a map showing its location and other EGHN gardens close-by – a map…
An idea of the Swedish EGHN partners could now be realized in a first step: an international exchange program for gardeners and other management staff. By means of a questionnaire, 10 parks were identified, which will actively participate in such a program. Now from Sweden to Portugal, from Russia to Ireland, in Poland and Germany,…
“Gartenland NRW”, the EGHN magazine, has been published in its second edition in May 2017. This year’s theme is “Art & Culture” in parks and gardens, with articles related to “Light and Sound”, “Second Nature” and “Cultural Freedom”. It includes a journey through EGHN gardens in Europe. In addition, the magazine also reports on the…