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East Lambrook Manor Gardens is the iconic and quintessentially English cottage garden created by the celebrated 20th-century plantswoman and gardening writer Margery Fish.
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East Lambrook Manor is a small 15th-century manor house in East Lambrook, Somerset, England, registered by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. It is surrounded by a "cottage garden" planted by Margery Fish between 1938 and her death in 1969. [2]
East Lambrook Manor Gardens. The quintessential English cottage garden created by C20 gardening legend Margery Fish. Plantsman's paradise with contemporary and old-fashioned plants grown in a relaxed and informal manner to create a remarkable garden of great beauty and charm.
EAST LAMBROOK MANOR GARDENS IS OPEN FROM FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER. The gardens open for the 2024 season on Thursday 1st February, then Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm, until the end of February and Tuesday to Saturday thereafter. You can book tickets online or JUST TURN UP AND PAY WHEN YOU ARRIVE.
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East Lambrook Manor is situated c 7km west-north-west of Yeovil and c 2km north of the village of South Petherton. The c 0.5ha site is bounded to the east by Silver Street and to the south by Middle Street, from which it is separated by stone walls. To the west the site adjoins domestic properties and gardens from which it is separated by stone wal...
East Lambrook Manor is entered from Silver Street to the north-east at a point c 50m north-west of its junction with Middle Street. The entrance comprises a simple timber gate set in the stone boundary wall (listed grade II*) and supported by mid or late C20 concrete posts. The entrance leads into the 'Barton' which comprises a gravelled area enclo...
East Lambrook Manor (listed grade II*) is constructed in ashlar and rubble stone under tiled roofs and comprises two storeys. The building has an asymmetrical plan with a projecting wing to the east of the principal block. The house is lit by timber and stone mullionwindows which contain leaded lights. The house was originally constructed as an ope...
The gardens are situated principally to the south-west, north-west, and north of the house, and are laid out to a partly formal design which is to some extent masked by dense planting in 'cottage garden'style. The gardens are today (2002) entered through a single wrought-iron gate situated on the south side of the Barton c 20m south-east of the Mal...
To the north-west of the garden a plant sales area is adjoined to the north by a more extensive area of nursery ground. This area, bordered to the north by Owl Streetand to the east by the Orchard, was developed by Mrs Fish in the mid C20 as a place in which to propagate and from which to sell the rare plants she had collected and obtained from her...
East Lambrook Gardens in Somerset, is just four minutes from the A303 at South Petherton, near Yeovil, can be found one of England’s best loved cottage gardens created by the celebrated plantswoman and gardening writer Margery Fish between 1938 and 1969.
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East Lambrook Manor Gardens is part of a privately owned property which the current owners keep open for the benefit and enjoyment of the public. It is a historically famous garden created by the plantswoman and gardening writer Margery Fish and was given Grade 1 status by English Heritage in 1992.
