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Staunton Park Gardens
Garden Category: North Midlands
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A four acre garden with fine trees, herbacious borders, herb gardens, lake, bog garden, rock garden, handkerchief tree, tulip tree, rhododendrons, azaleas and bulbs. Featuring a Victorian garden restored to all its former glory, a ‘Sensory’ garden with water features, Victorian glasshouses and Golden Jubilee Maze & Puzzle garden. These are interesting gardens where you can spend a whole afternoon in peaceful surroundings. The tree-planting work of previous owners has left a fine legacy of mature trees around two sides of the lake and along the drive, which passes magnificent wellingtonias (Sequoiadendron giganteum), along with a variety of other conifers and laurel. There are more elderly oaks, 300-400 years old, within the garden, and one very large tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipiferum), about 40m high, probably of Victorian planting, but possibly older, as the tree was first introduced (from North America) in the 18th century.
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