Route: Scampston Walled Garden
Area: North Yorkshire
Date of walk: 5th August 2016
Walkers: Andrew, Gilly and Fiona
Distance: 2.0 miles
Weather: Mostly sunny
Scampston Hall is home to two wonderful and completely different gardens – the unique contemporary Walled Garden designed by Piet Oudolf, which opened in 2005, and The Park designed by Capability Brown in 1782. We bought tickets to visit both and first went into the Walled Garden, which is set within the 18C walls of the original kitchen garden. Click here for more information about this stunning space, with a link to a plan of the garden
We then made our way to the parkland and set out on the Cascade Walk, which leads to various points of interest in the surrounding parkland. I’ve not included a maps page as a garden guide is handed out at the entrance which contains a plan and other information
It was a stunningly beautiful short walk. Thanks to various commitments we didn’t arrive at Scampston until 3pm and since the garden closes at 5pm our visit was more hurried than we’d have preferred. A full half day or more is needed to properly appreciate all that’s on offer
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The Walled Garden is subdivided into several smaller gardens, each different in their own way. We enter the inner garden via a break in the hedge
Entering the garden with the conservatory ahead - built in 1894 and restored in 2015
Circular pond in the centre of the garden, surrounded by the Perennial Meadow
The Serpentine Garden seen from The Mount
The use of different grasses is a distinctive design feature of the garden
Huge drifts of monarda…
This is a haven for bees
Stamen of a daylily
The circular pond again
Drifts of Grass…
Borage
Sweet pea in the Cut Flower Garden
We could have explored further but time was not on our side and we left the Walled Garden…
We enter the parkland, designed by Capability Brown
Scampston Hall
We follow the Cascade Trail beside the lake…
The Palladian Bridge at the end of three linked lakes, and designed by Capability Brown
Looking back to The Cascade
We cross over the Palladian Bridge
View from the bridge…
…and the view over the parkland from Scampston Hall - what a wonderful place
