Route: Newby Hall
Area: North Yorkshire
Date of walk: 13th June 2018
Walkers: Andrew and Gilly
Distance: 2 miles
Weather: Mixed cloud and sun
We’ve made regular visits to Newby Hall and its award winning gardens for the last 25 years or so, and it’s one of our favourites. There are numerous attractions here for all ages. The house itself was closed today but that wasn’t the purpose of the visit – we were here to see the gardens
A garden plan is handed out at the entrance, but it’s hard to follow a particular route when there are so many areas which catch the eye, depending on the season
We made a beeline for the double herbaceous border which at 172 metres is one of the longest in the country. The border has been completely dug out and replanted in recent years and was looking superb. To see the border at its stunning peak a little later in the season, click here for last year’s visit
There are numerous separate gardens within the garden: to name a few, the Rose Garden, the Water Garden, the Rock Garden, the White Garden and our other personal favourite, Sylvia’s Garden, a place for quiet contemplation. We wandered around all of these in turn and were especially impressed by the displays of candelabra primula, roses, peonies and cornus. It was another wonderful visit to this special place, and I hope we can find time to return later in the season – the gardens are in a constant state of flux and no two visits are ever the same
For other visits here, visit my Find Walks page and enter the name in the ‘Search site’ box
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Looking along the Statue Walk as we enter Newby Hall Gardens
The Wood Nymph statue in bronze at the front of the house
View along the magnificent double herbaceous borders
We follow the grass path between the borders, which leads down to the River Ure...
Looking back to the Hall, where filming of an Agatha Christie story is taking place
We continue to the end of the border, one of the longest in the country
The Rose Garden...
The Rock Garden
Rose Pergola
Newby Hall is home to the National Collection of cornus, started by Robin Compton in 1990
There are over 100 individual specimens with 30 species represented by 76 different hybrids and forms - and they are at their peak now
Peonies...
Sylvia's Garden, in memory of Sylvia Compton...
Robin's Walk...
The Tropical Garden...
The Orchard
The East Rock Garden
The Water Garden, one of the highlights at this time of the year, with masses of candelabra primulas...
Iris
Hosta
We leave via the Autumn Garden - the end of another wonderful visit to this magical place
