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SUMMARY:Garden Media Guild Event at Helmingham Hall
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DESCRIPTION:It is hard to exaggerate the effect this beautiful park, with its red deer, spectacular moated Hall in mellow patterned red brick with its famous gardens will have on the visitor. The whole combines to give an extraordinary impression of beauty and tranquillity. \n\nA classic parterre flanked by hybrid musk roses lies before a stunning walled kitchen garden with exquisite herbaceous borders and beds of vegetables interspersed by tunnels of sweet peas, runner beans and gourds. On the other side lies a herb and knot garden behind which is a rose garden of unsurpassable beauty.  The colour combinations in all these are in immaculate taste and are both subtle and very beautiful.\n\nThe influence of the well-known garden designer Xa Tollemache, is clearly visible – the parterre was redesigned in 1987 and the new rose garden to east of the coach house was created in 1982, together with the knot and herb garden.\n\nHead Gardener Brendan Arundel will lead this informal ‘walk and talk’ through the gardens (duration approximately 90 minutes), covering the history, challenges, planting, horticultural approach, evolution and future of the garden spaces. He will outline how the team at Helmingham manages these challenges, and how that informs what they do going forward as well as touching on the Hall, the family and its history. \n\nThis season, Helmingham Hall Gardens is also hosting the only public exhibition of sculptures in the UK by David Harber. 13 of his works have been carefully sited around the gardens to enhance and reflect the natural beauty of each space. \n\n \n\nItinerary:\n\n10:00 - Meet in the courtyard for tea and coffee\n\n10:30 - Tour with Brendan Arundel, Head Gardener\n\n12:00 - Lunch\n\n13:00 - Garden will be available to walk around and for photo opportunities.\n\nPlease inform us of any dietary requirements prior to the visit.\n\n \n\nAs you are visiting in a press capacity, we ask attendees to share content gained from your visit to Helmingham Hall Gardens, by means of photographs, blog, social media posts (reels etc), podcasts, articles etc.  Please tag Helmingham Hall along with @gdnmediaguild to help promote them and as a thank you for the generosity of being able to visit.\n\nIf you write about your visit for newspapers or magazines, photograph it or broadcast about it via TV/radio’, let us know when your work is published, and we’ll share the news.\n\n
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LOCATION:Helmingham Hall Gardens, Helmingham, Stowmarket, Suffolk. IP14 6EF	
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