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

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  • 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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ความคิดเห็น • 46

  • @carolsloss8440
    @carolsloss8440 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

  • @ebl36
    @ebl36 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @PLuMUK54
    @PLuMUK54 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @terryarrow702
    @terryarrow702 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @torysetliff
    @torysetliff 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @aina8318
      @aina8318 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @ebl36
      @ebl36 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @artisanhome8980
    @artisanhome8980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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
    @ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    what a beautiful and lovely garden

  • @aiai-j7i
    @aiai-j7i 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @user-un3po3jb4l
    @user-un3po3jb4l 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @jeanbates3832
    @jeanbates3832 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @Clairecottoncandy
    @Clairecottoncandy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @jordanvilchez2900
    @jordanvilchez2900 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @pamd1861
    @pamd1861 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    WOW love this! just gorgeous ♥️

  • @brittmarshall1080
    @brittmarshall1080 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Absolutely love. Bravo!

  • @sivabalankaniapan8786
    @sivabalankaniapan8786 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is absolutely gorgeous.

  • @kalsterling719
    @kalsterling719 ปีที่แล้ว

    This isFantastic, Original 🏆

  • @jomeyer13
    @jomeyer13 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow your lawn paths are perfect

  • @chattykathie7129
    @chattykathie7129 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I want to see inside the house.

  • @kateforsyth1133
    @kateforsyth1133 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just lovely

  • @tessayanco3974
    @tessayanco3974 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just glorious!!! ✨✨✨✨

  • @forestdesingermagazine
    @forestdesingermagazine 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So beautiful so amazing

  • @suileniluizontrombetta6317
    @suileniluizontrombetta6317 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

  • @nancykahn4125
    @nancykahn4125 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Glorious

  • @primrosedahlia9466
    @primrosedahlia9466 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wish you filmed inside her home as well

    • @kismit100
      @kismit100 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s not filmed for a reason

  • @hennypalmer-tomkinson3759
    @hennypalmer-tomkinson3759 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My friend lives there

  • @judithp8552
    @judithp8552 ปีที่แล้ว

    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'.

  • @panifrangipani
    @panifrangipani 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @michaelhaddan1965
    @michaelhaddan1965 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @brownman342
    @brownman342 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes

  • @l0stguy
    @l0stguy 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Itd be cool to see a tollemache family tree as the surname is relatively uncommon and i wanna see how im related to Xa and the other nobles thatd be cool

  • @Ashlee1985
    @Ashlee1985 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When can I move in? ;)

  • @mullofcuntire58t
    @mullofcuntire58t ปีที่แล้ว

    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 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @hennypalmer-tomkinson3759
    @hennypalmer-tomkinson3759 ปีที่แล้ว

    Theo tollmache

  • @ThreeRunHomer
    @ThreeRunHomer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Every house needs a moat.

  • @Football_Boss
    @Football_Boss ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @alinad2928
    @alinad2928 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would have preferred listening to the head gardener instead.