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Owner: National Trust Address: Charlton Mackrell Somerton Postcode: TA11 7HU County: Somerset tel: 01458 224471 fax: website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-lytescarymanor email: lytescarymanor //at// nationaltrust.org.uk English Heritage Grade: II Opening Times: NOTE for 2012: Please check with garden owners or their website to confirm current dates open http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-lytescarymanor 12th Mar - 30th Oct, 11-5, Sat - Wed Wider estate open all year, dawn till dusk. Open BH Mons & Good Friday. Closes dusk if earlier. Estate open all year, dawn-dusk. Last admission 30mins before closing Best Times of Year to Visit: Spring June and Sept To see: Spring bulbs Herbaceous borders National Collection: National Garden Scheme days: Yes Comments: 29th Mar, 11am-4pm, workshop 11.30am and 2.30pm, booking advisable 24th July 4th Oct Parties / Coaches: Yes Comments: Viewing by Appointment: Yes Comments: Small coaches only, by arrangement (max. of 7.5m, 30 people). House Open for Viewing: Yes Comments: Admission Prices: Gift Aid Admission (Standard Admission prices in brackets) House and garden: adult £8.10 (£7.30), child £4.10 (£3.70), family £20.30 (£18.30). Garden only: adult £5.75 (£5.20), child £2.95 (£2.65 Parking: Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Shop: Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes Teas: Yes Refreshments: Yes Picnics: Yes Dogs allowed: Yes Only on Lead: Yes Events: Yes Other Facilities: Dogs on lead but only in car park and on river walk. See own website for listing of Special Events Parts of Manor may be under repair. Plant Fair -9th May, 11am - 4pm End of Season Plant Sale - 26th September, 11am - 4pm Features: Intimate manor house with Arts & Crafts-style garden; Enchanting manor house in the depths of rural Somerset; Tudor great hall and 14th-century chapel; Home to medieval herbalist Henry Lyte; The gardens still grow the plants Lyte cultivated; Estate walks Designer: Description of Garden: The garden with its multitude of shades of green and low yew hedges beautifully sets off the golden colours of the house and walls crouching for shelter in the flat Somerset farmland. Sir Walter Jenner planned a series of enclosures with simple but very effective themes which Christopher Hussey called 'a necklace of garden rooms strung on green corridors'. The main beds display a colour sequence with Berberis, Achillea, Aster, Purple Sage and many floribunda roses leading into the White Garden with 'Iceberg' roses and Philadelphus. Sweeping lawns, more yew hedges, clumps of pink and white Rugosa roses and an ornamental orchard which, with pairs of crab apple trees, medlars, quinces and walnuts is undersown with daffodils and wildflowers, looks spectacular in Spring. Further on enclosures with a hornbeam tunnel, a tranquil pool, a lawn with a stone seat and pair of strawberry trees make this a lovely garden for quiet contemplation and satisfaction. History: Lytes Cary was the home of the Lyte family from 1286 until the late 18th century. One of the family, Henry Lyte, translated Doden's text on herbs, the 'Cruedboek', from the Flemish in 1578. A copy of this is on display in the Great Hall. Sir Walter Jenner acquired the property in 1907 and set about restoring the house and transforming the garden. The National Trust used his design after the property was bequeathed to them in 1949 and began replanning and replanting the main beds in a scheme reminiscent of an Arts & Crafts style garden. 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