The 40-year evolution of Xa Tollemache's Suffolk garden | Notes from a Garden

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  • čas přidán 27. 07. 2022
  • When Xa Tollemache came to live at Helmingham Hall in Suffolk, the home of her husband's family for 500 years, she knew nothing about gardens. After learning the fundamentals from Helmingham’s head gardener, she became thoroughly involved in the design and planting, and eventually launched her hugely successful career as a garden designer. Here she talks us through some of the aspects of the garden at Helmingham in midsummer, including the rose garden she planned and planted in 1982, the famous walled garden with its long borders and vegetable gardens, and the new woodland garden she laid out twenty years ago. Now that Xa and her husband have moved to a smaller house nearby, Helmingham is run by her son Edward and his wife Sophie. The gardens are open to the public throughout the summer.
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    Directed and edited by Luca Lamaro
    Produced by Virginia Clark
    Production assistant: Martina Appendino
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Komentáře • 45

  • @carolsloss8440
    @carolsloss8440 Před rokem +18

    LOVE THIS GARDEN. Especially love the spiral flower bed. I may have to copy this.

  • @terryarrow702
    @terryarrow702 Před rokem +6

    Utterly stunning & peaceful. I could quite easily watch videos like this all day. I particularly love the wild flowers. Nature doing it’s magic.

  • @PLuMUK54
    @PLuMUK54 Před rokem +7

    What I liked about this garden is that there were several ideas that could be used in a smaller garden.

  • @artisanhome8980
    @artisanhome8980 Před rokem +2

    My clients who love historic properties would truly appreciate this home! I love the way perennials and annuals are cleverly mixed with fillers and foliage. No need to visit the grocer, delicious fruits and veggies are plentiful here!

  • @ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293

    Breath-taking. Beautiful gardens really feel like heaven on Earth and I'm in such admiration of good garden designers and gardeners. The discipline, the knowledge, the hard work, the sense of good judgement...absolutely stunning. Thank you for featuring Xa's truly magnificent family home.

  • @augustandjune1989
    @augustandjune1989 Před rokem +5

    what a beautiful and lovely garden

  • @anmnou
    @anmnou Před rokem +2

    my jaw dropped several times watching this!! Amazing! Thank you for sharing!

  • @jeanbates3832
    @jeanbates3832 Před rokem +2

    My kind of garden. I loved this, much gratitude. 🌻

  • @ebl36
    @ebl36 Před rokem +4

    You can visit the garden, and it’s every bit as beautiful in real life!

  • @user-un3po3jb4l
    @user-un3po3jb4l Před rokem +3

    This garden is amazing! I loved the combination of the structured beds and vegetable patches and the unstructured foliage patches. Amazing indeed. Well done

  • @Clairecottoncandy
    @Clairecottoncandy Před rokem +2

    Visited this beautiful garden for the first time last week. Absolutely heaven! X

  • @jordanvilchez2900
    @jordanvilchez2900 Před rokem +5

    So inspiring! I’m heading to the nursery! Thank you. She’s wonderful.

  • @torysetliff
    @torysetliff Před rokem +28

    Wow, amazing gardens! I'd be really interested to know more of the logistics: how many gardeners does she employ, what sort of watering system, etc. Also, A MOAT AND TWO DRAWBRIDGES?! We NEED to see the home!

    • @ronniealex5523
      @ronniealex5523 Před rokem +1

      It’s jolly nice that you appreciate the garden but I will never understand why people always demand more, it’s the very height of vulgarity, don’t you think the fact that the house is not revealed says something?

    • @torysetliff
      @torysetliff Před rokem +25

      @@ronniealex5523 Lol, calling my curiosity the “height of vulgarity” is perhaps the “height of exaggeration”. I can think of things far more vulgar in this day and age. Sorry I struck a nerve, just loving it all and wishing for more information.

    • @torysetliff
      @torysetliff Před rokem +3

      @@rocklobstah1876 Well, doesn’t deter me. I’m from Texas, we love us some taxidermy!

    • @aina8318
      @aina8318 Před rokem +3

      @@rocklobstah1876 Agree, I have never understood the appreciation of using dead animals as art. Horrifying really!

    • @ebl36
      @ebl36 Před rokem +3

      You can visit! It’s beautiful! (The house is exactly as you see it)

  • @brittmarshall1080
    @brittmarshall1080 Před rokem +2

    Absolutely love. Bravo!

  • @pamd1861
    @pamd1861 Před rokem +4

    WOW love this! just gorgeous ♥️

  • @kalsterling719
    @kalsterling719 Před rokem

    This isFantastic, Original 🏆

  • @sivabalankaniapan8786

    It is absolutely gorgeous.

  • @tessayanco3974
    @tessayanco3974 Před rokem

    Just glorious!!! ✨✨✨✨

  • @chattykathie7129
    @chattykathie7129 Před rokem +6

    I want to see inside the house.

  • @jomeyer13
    @jomeyer13 Před rokem

    wow your lawn paths are perfect

  • @kateforsyth1133
    @kateforsyth1133 Před rokem

    Just lovely

  • @suileniluizontrombetta6317

    Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

  • @nancykahn4125
    @nancykahn4125 Před rokem

    Glorious

  • @forestdesingermagazine

    So beautiful so amazing

  • @primrosedahlia9466
    @primrosedahlia9466 Před rokem +2

    I wish you filmed inside her home as well

    • @kismit100
      @kismit100 Před 7 měsíci

      It’s not filmed for a reason

  • @brownman342
    @brownman342 Před rokem

    Yes

  • @panifrangipani
    @panifrangipani Před 3 měsíci

    Потрясающий сад! интересно сколько времени понадобилось для создании плана посадок?

  • @judithp8552
    @judithp8552 Před rokem

    I agree with last comment...how many gardeners are employed and what about interviewing them to get a real idea on the upkeep and tips on growing and maintaining. My garden is small because that is all I can manage. Beautiful garden tho'.

  • @hennypalmer-tomkinson3759

    My friend lives there

  • @michaelhaddan1965
    @michaelhaddan1965 Před rokem

    Visionary. Will you acquire Gertrude's other boot?!

  • @Ashlee1985
    @Ashlee1985 Před rokem +1

    When can I move in? ;)

  • @mullofcuntire58t
    @mullofcuntire58t Před rokem

    Mr David Nicholls, deputy editor of ‘House and Garden’ (UK), designed a pictograph of stick-figure corpses arranged in a numbered grid of columns and rows. “Connect the Jews!” was his joke. Ask him about it. Ask him if it’s true. Because it is. That’s the kind of person who’s rating your bedsheets.

  • @blahdeblaaah9445
    @blahdeblaaah9445 Před 2 měsíci

    Well, she’s trying. Just like me and the rest of us.

  • @hennypalmer-tomkinson3759

    Theo tollmache

  • @ThreeRunHomer
    @ThreeRunHomer Před rokem

    Every house needs a moat.

  • @Football_Boss
    @Football_Boss Před 11 měsíci

    if i was a tollemache and knocked on the door would they let me in

  • @alinad2928
    @alinad2928 Před rokem

    Would have preferred listening to the head gardener instead.