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Columbine Hall: a remarkable island garden on an ancient moated estate in Suffolk

Columbine Hall: a remarkable island garden on an ancient moated estate in Suffolk

Episode 9 Published 1 month ago
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Columbine Hall is the home of newspaper publisher Hew Stevenson. He and his late wife first saw a very different sight in November 1992: a concrete farmyard covered in mud, but the moat was breached and the couple embarked on a lifelong transformation. They gradually demolished grain silos, buried overhead wires and removed asbestos. View were enhanced by planting 1,000 English native woodland trees, and a garden of vistas emerged …

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