Ickworth House and Gardens
Thursday, July 7, 2022
On a dull morning 42 members and our favourite driver Sam set off for Suffolk and two contrasting gardens. Despite the weather forecast for summer sunshine it was still grey on our arrival causing several of us to regret our summer attire and lack of coats and jumpers! Luckily the promised sun soon came out and burnt off the clouds.
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Our first garden was Ickworth which has a magnificent house with an amazing rotunda with an Italianate garden and extensive parkland. The house boasts an amazing silver collection, servant’s quarters and some wonderful paintings, notably by Hogarth and Rembrandt.
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We moved on after lunch in lovely sunshine to Fuller’s Mill garden which is run by the Perennial charity helping people in horticulture build and live better lives. It was created by the late Bernard Tickner over a fifty year period and is a charming woodland garden on the banks of the river Lark with a plantsman’s collection of unusual shrubs, perennials, lilies and marginal plants.
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