Brookgreen Park

Head Gardener's Comment

Brookgreen Park is a large country garden. The house sits on a knoll near the entrance way and a view of the spreading lawns below. To one side, formal clipped box edged gardens display roses and topiary, while the way ahead leads over a tiled patio to a gazebo underplanted with clivia and New Guinea impatients. Avenue of Melia azedarach leads downwards to small lake crossed by a Monet style bridge. Pink waterlillies are a feature here in spring and summer. A further bridge takes you to the maple garden underplanted with hostas. Across the other side of the lake there is a formal fountain and tiled rill fed by water from a stream at the rear of the property. The path back to the house leads through a palm garden and to a vegetable potager with small topiary citrus trees.