Sandwich (Page 1/2): Visit to Salutation Gardens
Maureen again organised decent weather for an outing, this time to Sandwich. We started with an interesting guided tour of the Salutation Gardens. Our guide was the very enthusiastic head gardener, Steve Edney. Edwin Lutyens, who collaborated with Gertrude Jekyll on the garden layout, designed the house, not open to the public, in 1912. The 3.5 acre garden was sadly neglected for 25 years until it changed hands three years ago and the new owner undertook a complete renovation, where possible using Lutyens’ and Jekyll’s original plan. It is well worth a visit, although many of the borders are still awaiting planting.
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Salutation House, built by Edwin Lutyens in 1912
The new pond – not yet established
The group listens to the head gardener talking about composting.
The vegetable garden
Main perennial borders and the house
The woodland garden
A seat in the woodland garden
A carving in the woodland garden
Strange fungi!
An anemone lawn ...
... and the flowers in close-up
The perennial borders from another angle
The group marches on through the Holm Oak Walk.
A pathway
The bowling lawn and rose garden
The white garden
Steve Edney, the head gardener, in the white garden
The yellow garden