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[Music]
the manners castles and stately homes I
visit across Britain are brimming with
magnificent history and inspiration but
the gardens and Landscapes which
surround these beautiful buildings have
their own Rich Heritage and stories to
tell this bit of the garden actually was
designed like this by the victorians
okay um the sixth
Duchess when she was a widow and her
companion who was a cousin they they
were very influential in this right and
they moved that um north wall back about
3 m creating this flat Terrace like this
I see and creating the herbaceous
borders which I think were much more
Victorian and then Edwardian
tradition this is one of my favorite
areas of the garden it’s we call it the
sundal garden one of the only areas of
what we would call formal planting that
we have in the garden and this is the
original template of the garden
essentially you would have looked out
from in this sort of this bay window
right and so you would look down over
this Garden where you know you’d see the
children
[Music]
play when I married into the British
aristocracy it was the start of a
wonderfully exciting Journey but it was
also a little daunting I became a VI
Countess and for an American girl from a
small town outside Chicago that was
quite a shock I live with my husband
Luke heir to the Earl of Sandwich and
our family at mapperton house IND dors
it living in a place like this is a joy
but also a challenge and every day we’re
aware that we’re preserving a very
special part of Britain’s heritage
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mtin has opened up an extraordinary new
world for me and I can’t wait to share
it with you
all so if you love castles and manners
and stately homes as much as I do please
join this American bounce as I journey
into the British Countryside in search
of some of Britain’s Finest historic
houses
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here at mton the italianate gardens are
absolutely at the heart of this place
they are both formal and wild the beauty
and power of nature is literally all
around
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the gardens took on their current life
in the 1920s when the owner of maertin
at the time Mrs Etha laaser designed a
sunken italianate garden in the natural
valley
here the gates to the gardens were open
to the public in the 1930s with
thousands of visitors enjoying their
peace Beauty and Tranquility ever since
for nearly 70 years since the multicue
family moved here in the 1950s these
Gardens have been treasured and lovingly
cared for and developed most recently by
my mother-in-law the 11th Countess of
Sandwich who has devoted ours to
preserving and nurturing these historic
award-winning grade two listed Gardens
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strength well what’s good about the
oranger is it’s got some rather
wonderful plants in it and it smells
amazing in here it does smell and then
these are lovely too these these are
beautiful um but what is really good is
this rose up here do you see it with the
lovely white flows I put that in
curiously enough it’s an old Victorian
t- Rose called nefos and it doesn’t
really live outside it’s an indoor
Conservatory Rose and funnily enough
when my parents went to live in Sussex
in the conservatory there was n it the
sort of rose that people had in their
conservatories so when you arrived here
at Matton this had been built by by
hinch yeah yeah let nobody think that
this is an old Conservatory it was built
in 196 well 68 it was opened in 1968 and
it leaked from the day it was opened and
it still is right uh even though it’s
been re roofed and heaven knows what my
father-in-law who was used to a larger
Garden even than this well this Garden
is only 15 Acres which in the great
scheme of things is not that much but
there are 15 Acres of gardened garden as
opposed to Rolling Acres of
Parkland um but he was used to a bigger
Gardener and he always had very Grand
ideas my father-in-law in so he built an
orangery one of the few orangeries built
in the
1960s and it’s given him it gave him a
lot of dry a lot it’s given all of us a
lot of dry we’ve sort of changed the
plant yeah did you then change it change
it yeah I mean the thing we didn’t
change is the vine over there which you
can’t really see which is that Italian
vine the strawberry grape U froga it’s
so high that what I try to do is create
a full ceiling across do you see yes
there because that proportion is so much
better than this Higher One yes no no I
do I do see that I’ve been trying to do
that and it’s done there with the vine
and the Rose
so coming out here I remember one of the
things that you’ve always told me is
that a manor house having this size of
Garden in these formal Gardens isn’t
common no no no I mean what has happened
to mapon is that it was a sort of reason
I mean it’s a very beautiful man of
house an astonishingly beautiful man of
house but it would never have had the
aristocratic Furniture that’s in it my
father and know brought from hening
Brook nor would it ever have had a
garden this big and in my father-in-law
double the size of the garden but in
fact what happened to this Garden or
rather if I start from where the garden
starts that we can see here yes um it
was put in by Mrs labush who owned the
house from 1919 to
19504 five from my father-in-law bought
it right and she put in the topy garden
which we’ll see in a minute or two down
there and it was and it was a an
italianate Garden totally symmetrical
right and the pergola which we’ll see
down there half of it was up here oh my
goodness so that it was symmetrical my
father-in-law having put in the orang
Tre realized he needed a sweep of steps
and put in also a s where he could
address the
nation
and it all changed so it was no longer
symmetrical and this the orangery was
completely detached from the okay from
theop gon so I put in this row of crab
apples to try to weld the orangery to
the topy okay okay and these big FL beds
beautiful yeah they’re stunning at the
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moment what’s special about the Gardens
at maon is that they even look glorious
on a rainy and wet spring
day so you’ve been looking after really
these Gardens that are award-winning
Italian eight Gardens they’ve won lots
of awards they’ve been in lots of lovely
books lots of Articles um yeah they’re
even an absolutely brilliant Garden in
the winter CU they’ve got so much form
design to them and but this is an
enormous task and what have you but it’s
never been my primary task I know that I
mean I’m afraid it really hasn’t I we
have improved them
enormously uh when I say that I mean
both gardening staff and me I mean when
we first came here they were still sort
of quite correctly hinches Gardens and
had absolutely hies bedding out plants
like asers and pelagonians and right
sweet Williams and things in awful
little beds all over the place okay so
you had to do quite a bit huge amount
and we created that whole run and those
beds we double the size not these beds
these beds are the same size but they
were full of just boring white roses or
something
I think you ought just to know actually
jul just as we walk past that that’s
where the deer have eaten every single
leaf oh my goodness I can see yeah of
course I can see and so yes of course
what John and I have done is we’ve
enriched the planting hugely enriched it
doubled the number of species if not
tripled and given it a sort of warmth
and excitement that it didn’t have so
yes huge amount of planting huge amount
of selection of species I made some
mistakes obviously no I’m sure you
didn’t of course I did yeah I have to um
but so what is your I can’t do anything
to no I know got to get through and oops
Yeah
wow you see for instance that my
father-in-law put in he was rather good
on Claus he was good on shrubs he put in
this thing kakia I mean the Arboretum
which he created um has got excellent
trees in it I’ve actually added some
more interesting trees which one of
these days let’s go around and I’ll show
them definitely definitely can you tell
me just a little bit though about the
grto yes I can tell you I can tell you a
little bit about this I think the most
important thing about this is it is a
very very handsome very very elegant um
topy garden and you created no no this
is all Mrs labush oh this is all Mrs lab
all Mrs lab everything here is Mrs
labush now these little grottos there
are two grottos there there’s the CI
Pavilion up there there’s a little um p
uh summer house there she had fires in
all of them Mrs lavash because she liked
to do watercolors yes and so she sat in
them with a fire and no doubt some
bringing logs had to I know it’s amazing
that just have you ever lit one of the
fires in there yes we did and it smoked
appallingly we did the one I’ve done
there right if you if I were to ask you
what’s your favorite I know people ask
me that I have the pest
idea I don’t
I I have to say that I’m not one of
those great gardeners who really you
know is obsessed either by Gardens or by
plants I’m very interested in Plants I’m
very interested in seeing that we have
good plants and also that we have
contrasts of green and flowers and leaf
forms so we have contrast of color and
form yeah these are not bad the holes at
the moment are where we plant things
which had this year been little less
unpleasant than it has been that would
already be planted can’t do it but
everything’s just a bit delayed yes
everything including the wi these things
like these tree pns I put in all these
because I like the shap of the
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and when do the Japanese Mysteria over
there oh is that the Japanese one well
there are two white ones here one is
chinensis and the other is fand which is
Japanese and I well they should be
coming out quite soon they’re always a
tiny bit later than the ones in the F in
the front Courtyard but they should be
coming out but not in this one no
sensible plant is going to come out in
this weather no they’re all waiting for
the sun like we are so tell me just a
little bit about the pools because quite
a feature yeah oh they are wonderful
well this first run of UB bushes was
here when my father-in-law arrived okay
he put in the second lot ah so there was
only one y okay and Mrs labush put in
that um semicircular Garden there okay
okay yes and I don’t know who put in the
Irish use and this would have been a
cart Pond for people to eat the fish and
yes the second one I have once seen a
map where it didn’t exist okay but I
that was about 30 years ago and I’ve
never found the map again which is
really boring okay do you think Mrs
Lasher possibly put that in quite quite
lar okay they are beautiful of course we
like to swim in there yeah as well I
like to wave at the frogs as I go by hi
yeah it’s just it’s brilliant it is
lovely the best time to swim at 6:00 in
the evening when the sun’s out and you
get these wonderful Shadows of the you
falling onto the pool if we ever do see
the sun again again I can’t see myself
ever swimming in there again I will if
it’s really warm but I you will not in
this not in this weather anyway Caroline
thank you this is um um a real Tri every
time I come to the gardens with you I
learn something new
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when I visited the Glorious Georgian
Masterpiece Constable Burton Hall in
North Yorkshire home to the wyal family
it was so lovely to take a walk with
imagin in the beautiful formal and
Woodland
Gardens so this is a really beautiful
time of year in the gardens everything
suddenly just exploded in color um and
actually this is one of my favorite
areas of the garden it’s we call it the
sundal garden one of the only areas of
what we would call formal planting that
we have in the garden and this is the
original template of the garden
essentially you would have looked out
from in this sort of this bay window
right and so you would look down over
this Garden where you know you’d see the
children playing or yes whatever and
then then this Garden extends out into a
sort of teered Terra Garden which would
have been more formal at the outset but
over time has become sort of slightly
more of a woodland terracing yes the
most wonderful thing which you’ll see is
that these trees you know really envelop
the house got these beautiful cedar
trees here and the house is really
nestled in amongst this area you know we
dip down to the Lakes behind the house
here but you feel kind of nestled and
cozy in this
and those are the lakes that again I saw
when I entered into the outer Hall from
that there exactly and I think you know
we don’t have so many Maps or drawings
um that have kind of made the test of
time but it alludes the few that we do
have allude to there being pleasure
walks in in that area so we’ve think
that we found um some sort of big um
Stone areas where we think there might
have been you know little Villas or
Foles you know none of there today but
there’s a beautiful palladian bridge by
down by that Lake which wouldn’t have
been there had it just been you know
Rural right exactly exactly so you know
that’s another that’s a project for you
know years to come but we would love to
sort of reinstate that route through
those Gardens as well but at the moment
you know this is our this is our sort
circuit as such it’s so beautiful you
know there’s always projects going on at
these
houses it’s very different in one sense
to how they had been lived in in the
past because we as custodians homeowners
were doing yeah much of the work
ourselves totally you know we have to do
you know whatever is actually within our
within our realm of you know capacity
exactly and you know there were
obviously you know hundreds of of staff
and gardeners and you know people tend
you know now we’re very a very uh
Boutique team so you know we do we do I
love that term I’m going to steal that
from you a boutique team little Boutique
team that is brilliant um so you know
and actually this is this is what brings
us pleasure um and you know you get
beautiful Vistas through the garden so
you can get a little glimpse of the
Lakes as you walk through you can see
the river running through this is
actually called the dean um it’s like a
jungle out there at the moment it is but
it’s lovely I mean listen it’s all about
rewilding the exactly so you are right
we
Trailblazers we were the
Trailblazers and you know it’s not
something that I know you know the
garden is coming to me over the course
of time I think you get your head around
the house yes and then you start sort of
you know broaden out um and it’s
wonderful you know it’s a beautiful
beautiful garden but you know there are
little Corners you know each year we
take a little a little chunk and I think
you know then I know you know what’s
going on in that little corner of the
garden and um you know step by step you
know you create your your journey with
the garden same with the house yeah um
there was a little area just Ben beneath
the dining room window there which you
know I sort of looked at it we had the
formal planting here and I thought do
you know what that’s something we could
make more of that so actually we dug out
two new beds there which a great friend
of mine designed for my 40th birthday
and we’ve planted that up now which is
so beautiful because now I feel you know
a sense of my story in the garden which
is so lovely and now I know you know if
I pull a weed out of there I know it’s a
weed rather than something I shouldn’t
be touching
exactly you have these extraordinary
Gardens we’ve just sort of wandered and
meandered through them with of course
the backdrop of the house then looking
down here onto um the lovely water but
visitors can they they can come here
yeah so essentially the gardens used to
be open to the public all the way
through from March to September but you
know when we moved in we’ve got young
children and we thought that we would
shift into you know something which is a
little bit more manageable for us right
because you know the kids need to have a
sense of freedom and to be able to ride
their bikes and you know of course but
at the same time we wanted to be able to
share the gardens so essentially now we
we just run more events and we Kickstart
those events in the spring season with
our Tulip Festival which is really the
sort of you know the grand opening of
con Burton Gardens for the season and
that is a long-standing relationship
with a nursery called blums bulbs okay
who just won their 70th gold at Chelsea
oh my goodness so they are they are
really exceptional and I think I think
the relationship started over 25 years
ago so we’re there Northern show Garden
you know we’re incredibly fortunate to
have this amazing relationship with them
and we plant 7,000 of their tulips
around the gardens fantastic absolutely
gorgeous I mean I love tulips anyway so
yeah you know to have these beautiful
displays throughout the garden is really
amazing amazing so the Tulip Festival
happens when so it’s the first May bank
holiday weekend so sad of you know 1 of
May or thereabouts right um and then
really throughout the entire month of
May the Tulips are in the gardens and it
looks absolutely amazing so you often
get the blossom coming at the same time
and you the Magnolias and everything is
just full of life you know and the the
winters are long and cold and so for me
that’s my you know such exciting time of
year to spring is here it’s here a new
life is everywhere right um here you get
another glimpse of the river running
through fantastic so
lovely so this is the Beautiful You Know
Aces grow particularly well here so you
know the aces draw your eye over across
the gardens it’s and also just the light
coming in right now it’s is really
really lovely yeah so yeah it’s pretty
it’s pretty gorgeous it is really
gorgeous so really the peak though is of
course the Tulip Festival how many in
total do you know how many I well we
have I think we we have over 7,000 and
about 100 different varieties so we
plant them in a sort of specimen fashion
and each year we know we remove them and
replant yeah 7,000 it’s a real labor of
love and we also because you know you
can imagine the deer and the this thing
is absolutely wonderful so you go to
painstaking lengths with covering them
with cages until it’s sort of showtime
and then all the cages come off but um
it is amazing you know it’s really an
amazing site and actually then we get
left with this you know we have
obviously take them out and then we have
these huge beds that we you know have
empty so we’ve now removed the Tulips
and we replace those beds with daers
with a view to having a sort of late
summer show for daas what’s amazing is
when you if you go up the Parkland and
you approach conable version as you
would have done you know in the original
House you know you would have snaked
through the park and then suddenly you
know happened AC upon con wber you get
little sort of you know little glimpses
of it and then suddenly it’s presented
to you but what you do see is you know
the foresight that they had to plant
this incredible landscape around the
house to frame it you know it’s it’s
it’s just genius the thought that went
into it in sort of
Designing this space and again back then
it was it was this community of people
that live lived either around the house
or of course on the estate and this is
how I think historic houses in
particular have evolved that whereas
before it was sort of like okay
everybody just sort of stays within the
community now we as homeowners we’re
opening it up so that people can can
come and stay and enjoy the history of
your house and they can walk through the
gardens and so it’s opening it up to a
wider Community absolutely um but look
at this View I know there it is so it’s
gorgeous at this time of day because the
stone really starts to have that Golden
Glow reflection off it it it changed
dramatically in the
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sunlight from North Yorkshire we head to
the highlands of Scotland where the
drama of the landscape Cascades down to
the mature Gardens which envelop Blair
Castle
itself I met met up with Sarah Tron half
sister of the 10th Duke of athl to
explore the historic Walled
Garden this is stunning this sort of
visual right here with the castle behind
but now where we entering into well
we’re entering up Hercules walk walking
towards the statue of
Hercules and this was all designed and
created by the second Duke and his head
Garder John Wilson okay and what time
give me the time frame there um it was
1740 onwards he died in
1764 so over that sort of 30e span and
he from the front door of the castle he
devised various Vistas one was up to
Hercules it’s like you overgrown
now one was down the front drive another
was up towards the statue of Diana in
Diana’s Grove which is where we have
these fantastic big high Conover trees
right but the one to Hercules was the
main one and he first of all created
leveled out this path because I think it
was quite like that okay just with
Manpower there was no machines in those
days of course not and he planted it up
with some nice trees shrubberies but a
lot of what we’re seeing now was planted
in about
1900 okay because there was a terrible
storm at the end of the 19th century
okay the Lots blown down and then when
he got to Hercules he thought the view
wasn’t quite nice enough to the left it
was a bit boggy and didn’t look too hot
so he decided to dig a lake the whole
length right which you call the canal
Pond and then a square pond at the far
end so it all drained into that oh my
goodness and then he thought um he’d
like to plant some things but there were
too many animals around he built a wall
all around it and so it is now the this
nearly 10 acres um oh wow Walled Garden
fantastic and it was it was developed by
the second Duke as what in those days
was known as a f or an ornamental
productive Garden okay so there were
roses and a lot of scent from the
archives I picked this up but also lots
of fruit lots of vegetables herbs so it
served as both were somewhere where
you’d take a very pleasant walk right
but also very productive for everybody I
mean the amount of produce must have
covered most of the estate I think abely
the castle the sad thing about this
Garden was after the second world war it
was in very poor condition somebody
tried to run it as a Market Garden but
it just didn’t work and so in the early
60s it was planted with Christmas
trees from one end to the other so all
my childhood memory really is of full of
Christmas trees so what happened to the
Christmas trees then well they were cut
down when the decision was taken to try
and restore the garden ah not totally to
its former glory but with all the paths
and some of the beds in position
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okay taking inspiration from the
archives Sarah has revived the historic
Gardens at Blair
well we had a whole project um somebody
did a plan they’ resarch we had a
historian who came and researched all
the archives and Drew up the plan of how
the garden would have been and most of
it we could see the the pond was still
intacted right okay um we had to build
up the sides and we had to build up the
retaining wall and all that but the
paths weren’t here but it was easy to
work out where they’d been and we
reestablished them look at the oh my
goodness and all these fruit trees are
planted they’re not the same species
okay but they are planted in exactly the
same positions as the original ones
would have been because that’s how
detailed the information in the archives
was incredible so all these bear
different fruit yes they’re rows I mean
this is a row of mlla cherries yes and
then there’s row PL apples plums and
then you start again with cherries how
brilliant and these are a mixture of
those three fruits four fruits
okay how wonderful and then this is the
North Terrace this bit of the garden
actually was designed like this by the
victorians okay um the sixth
Duchess when she was a widow and her
companion who was a
cousin they they were very influential
in this bit right and they moved that
um north wall back about 3 m oh because
the old road um the old driveway from
the road to in vaness used to be back
there and it had changed and gone down
to the modern Village okay leaving that
as an unimportant roadway okay so they
moved literally about 3 m back so then
you moved creating this flat Terrace I
see I see okay and creating the
herbaceous borders which I think were
much more Victorian and then Edwardian
tradition than they would have been uh
earlier Georgian 18th century tradition
and actually we’ve designed it to be at
its best in July August because that’s
when we get most visitors and for
Scottish herbaceous Garden that actually
is a good time it’s it’s that much later
than England so this is something you’ve
really had a hand in and making sure
that this carries on for for future
Generations it’s beautiful and just the
scent as well yes I mean I hope so but
Gardens evolve all the time you know
there’s no way you can say that’s how
it’s going to be forever right yes of
course it’s not yeah no but it’s also um
hello it’s um it’s also in my view at
least you know you can houses evolve as
well of course of course but I think
Gardens much more than a house and a
garden is something that you can visit
really four times a year in the seasons
cuz they change
and a house you know maybe once a year
um seeing what the next project is but
that’s what’s so wonderful about the
Gard is because you can see how in each
season how it changes no it is very SE
very seasonal this Garden because I mean
in in May the fruit Blossom is lovely
and you get these very geometric lines
of Blossom and then the herbaceous comes
on led by the roses and it’s quite a
good Garden for
roses and then there’s the High summer
is I the most colorful period with all
the habous but then the Autumn is
beautiful here we have very and the
trees you know around the outside have
wonderful color as well as what’s in the
garden so it I I love the Autumn
actually well I’m very pleased I came
you know at the height of the herbaceous
borders looking so absolutely stunning
in their in their color and scent can
you smell the lies because scent has
been a great tradition in this Garden
all it all mentions in the um archives
it’s always saying scented scented
honeysuckle scented roses scented
everything so when we were planting we
always had in mind that we wanted to
have good wafts of scent yeah well i’
I’ve had plenty from the point that we
started I mean it’s just constant I feel
like it’s absolutely con and this is
spectacular VI here as well well that’s
there’s Hercules there he is there is
very OD in this Garden nothing is
actually
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90° it’s so nice now the garden is I
mean a Garden’s never done but it’s kind
of complete and now we just redo things
or rejig things a little bit add a bit
of more color when something’s not
looking quite right change it it’s just
lovely thank you so much for for joining
me and I hope you’ve enjoyed this
Horticultural Feast as much as I have I
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