Flowers and planting are at the heart of English country garden style, so here are expert tips from the head gardeners at Chatsworth and West Dean Gardens, from Pot & Cloche podcaster and gardener Joff Elphic and also from Clare Foggett, editor of The English Garden. Plus see beautiful English country garden, Doddington Place Gardens, and an interview with the owner, Amicia Oldfield.
Doddington Place Gardens is currently open on Wednesdays & Sundays for the National Garden Scheme, entry only with pre-booking via the NGS: https://ngs.org.uk/
Find Joff Elphick’s Pot & Cloche podcast
The English Garden magazine: https://www.theenglishgarden.co.uk/
Chatsworth Gardens have re-opened, but booking is essential. See: https://www.chatsworth.org/garden/
Photographs of Chatsworth: The Chatsworth Trust/DPC Photography
West Dean Gardens is re-opening to the public from 26th June, pre-booking essential: https://www.westdean.org.uk/gardens
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24 Comments
Love ❤️ the sundial
I especially like your Visit to the head garden designer professionals. It is more convincing. My space is limited. If I have a space I would give to rose rather than any other kind.
What are those huge blooming shrubs in the back around the 14:00 point.
Yesss Blue delphiums are must haves!
While that was interesting- It doesn't relate whatsoever to a middle-sized garden. Ridiculous
Wow! What a gorgeous video! Absolutely top notch! Thank you for your excellent work, Alexandra.
I really love your videos. It's wonderful to have a resource for gardens of this size. YouTube videos so often focus on much smaller, urban back gardens, or trendy, entertainment-centric styles that don't appeal to me. Five years ago we bought a house with a 1 acre back garden with an unobstructed view of the neighboring valley farms and distant hills. It's mostly still an expanse of lawn and has enormous maples dotted over it. I'm the only one in my family who gardens but I've managed to install a small, "formal-ish" rose & lavender garden, a large all-white garden with a rose arch, and a productive kitchen garden with greenhouse. What I have longed for is a more experienced gardening mentor. Thank you for providing this inspiring content.
Great information…..thank you 👍
This is the best of your YouTube films I've watched so far (and, having only just discovered you, I've watched quite a few over the last couple of days). Interviewing and/or having input from Head Gardeners is very interesting and (despite living in rural west Gloucestershire, not very far from Hidcote and Barnsley House) I think West Dean is my favourite English garden. Thank you.
Thank you, Alexandra! Finding you is like getting the “golden ticket” to visit English gardens! I am in Indiana, the Midwest of the US. I am putting in a large garden this summer that is inspired by the English country gardens of England. Where would I be without your videos?!
Excellent video❤️🌷
ABSOLUTE HEAVEN! GLORIOUS LISTENING TO SINGING BIRDS IN THE BACKGROUND! THANK YOU ALEXANDRA FOR THE INSPIRATION! 💐 🐦 💐
Great video! Developing a Cottage Garden in Fl. Zone 9 full sun. Very difficult. I search out sun lovers that look cottagey. Cleome, butterfly bush, rose of Sharon, Hollyhocks only last apx 2 wks., so, i gave up on them. Salvia Dianthus,milkweed, Gerber daisies etc
Any suggestions?
#highcountrygardener I agree, country garden is a style, Im in New Mexico State at 7200 ft elevation. Mulch and compost is the key.
This was a fantastic video. I am pleased to know, I’m incorporating some of these techniques in my garden, but I have learned what else I can do to achieve this style. Thank you! 🌿🌿🌹🌹🌿🌿
I garden like I cook. A fusion of what i like from different cultures/styles.
Great video. Thank you
I love your videos and have learnt so much from you… thank you
Having discovered your videos recently, I find them an absolute joy, particularly this one. They are so well made, and devoid of presenters' cliches. I don't know how you manage it every week! Thank you very much.
This is a very late comment to this video, but I’d like to share this. This archetypal English country garden is my favorite, but all gardens have real magic in them. In the worst times of my life, retreating to a garden has restored me, or at least helped see me through. A walk, a long sit, but best of all the puttering about with plants and having your hands in the earth is better for the weary soul than anything else. Suffering a great loss is eased by spring and the miracle of nature’s renewal. Working to plant for the next year’s blossom restores faith that life will go on. The scent of lavender or lilacs recall a loved one long gone, and now suddenly here, a brief, tender visit. This may not be why we all begin gardening, but I think it has much to do with why we become gardeners.
"By a higher power!"
Thank you Alexandra. 👌💕
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I’m trying to create an English country garden here in North West Ireland. I’m English born of Irish parents. To me an ECG is pretty, with lots of roses and perennials. Thank you.