Last updated on 01 July 11

Packwood House Garden

4.0/5 (2 ratings)

© Simon Harrison
Photograph © Anthurium/Katrina Underwood
Photograph © Anthurium/Katrina Underwood
Photograph © Anthurium/Katrina Underwood
Photograph © Anthurium/Katrina Underwood
Photograph © Selina Botham
Photograph © Selina Botham

Gardenvisit Editorial

A house, developed between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, with a garden.that is shown on the cover of Sir Roy Strong's book on The Renaissance Garden in England. 'Long famous as a garden planted in the 1660s', Strong observes, 'it was, in fact, a mid-Victorian re-creation of a Mannerist garden from before the Civil War, whose symbolism is in terms of abstract moral geometry'. An old gardener said that the great yew garden represented The Sermon on the Mount. The garden at Packwood also has courtyards, terraces and a brick gazebo.

Address - Lapworth, Solihull, Warwickshire, England, B94 6AT
Opening times - March to early November. Wednesday to Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays. Open 11am to 4:30pm (5:30pm May to September).
Admission - Adult £4.00
Website - Visit the Packwood House Garden website

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Reviews and Comments

Have you visited this garden?

11 months ago Adam Hodge said
As Selina has mentioned there are some gorgeous borders in beautiful colour co-ordinations. The most generously planted was the gold purple and white border but the others were also interesting.

One wonders whether the grand yews need a bit of a serious cut back... some were looking a bit tired

(3.0/5)
over 1 year ago Selina Botham said
The planting was spectacular way better than the usual National Trust garden with artemesia, alliums, euphorbia and some gorgeous deep pink cirsium and Astrantia. So taken with it was I that it inspired my design for a garden in Ashtead Surrey - I used some of the same plant combinations in sweeping curves around a curved lawn.
Photos will be added to my web site in May 2011 (Once the bulbs are out and plants beginning to establish -
http://www.designsforallseasons.co.uk)

(5.0/5)

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