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Garden Name: Wyken Hall Gardens
Last Modified: 18-02-2012
Garden ID: 0061

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Owner: Sir Kenneth & Lady Carlisle
Address:
Stanton
Bury St. Edmunds

Postcode: IP31 2DW
County: Suffolk

tel: 01359 250262
fax: 01359 252258
website: www.wykenvineyards.co.uk
email: kc //at// wykenhall.fsnet.co.uk

English Heritage Grade:


Opening Times:
Open April 1st to Sept 30th

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
April - July.

To see: 
Bulbs, shrubs, roses and perennials.

National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: Yes
Comments: May 12th and 13th.

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: By appointment

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments:  

House Open for Viewing: No
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
Adult £4. OAPs £3.50. Children free.

Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Shop: Yes
Plants for Sale: No
Lunches: Yes
Teas: Yes
Refreshments: Yes
Picnics: No
Dogs allowed: No
Only on Lead: No
Events: No

Other Facilities:
Vineyard and woodland walk. Excellent restaurant that features in both the Good Food Guide and the Michelin Guide. NB. for directions - Follow the brown signs to Wyken Vineyards from the A143 at Ixworth.

Features: 
Plant Sale - 27th Mar. Many nurseries attending.

Designer: 
Description of Garden:
The garden at Wyken is very cleverly designed as a set of traditional gardens organised as rooms to complement the Elizabethan house. These include a knot garden and a herb garden designed by Arabella Lennox-Boyd. There is an English kitchen garden, wildflower meadows, a nuttery with gazebo and a copper beech maze. Beautifully maintained, this is one of the best private gardens developed in recent years in this country.

Features include the woodland garden, roses both new and old-fashioned, a plantsman's collection of plants, herbs, fruit, shrubs and herbaceous borders. Notable is the award-winning seven-acre vineyard. A new pond has recently been created and planted up.


History: 
This garden was designed by Sir Kenneth and Lady Carlisle and also Arabella Lennox-Boyd. The garden improvement began in 1979 and continues.

Local Inns: 
Pykkerell, Ixworth

Accomodation: 
Six Bells Country Inn, Bardwell, Bury St. Edmunds

Restaurants: 
The Leaping Hare at Wyken Vineyards, Wyken Hall

Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
Ixworth
Bury st Edmunds