IN THIS GUIDE
In former March I was favourable enough to visit the garden at Nunnington Hall in North Yorkshire .
The hall surrounded by the groundsis thought to have been built in the sixteenth Centuryand must be one of the most telling land houses in England .
The gardens at Nunnington have been run organically since 2002 and continue to be a front - runner in alternative constitutive methods and technology .
I meet with Nick Fraser , the Head Gardener at Nunnington , for a tour of the grounds .
History Of Nunnington Hall
“ Nunnington Hall was depart to The National Trust by the Fife family in the 1950s , ” Head Gardener Nick Fraser share .
“ However , some of the family members stayed on here until the late seventies , after which the Trust finally took over and we opened it up as the visitor attraction that you see today .
“ The original layout that we see at Nunnington Hall dates back to the seventeenth century .
“ The original topography of the domain and the wall have gone through several change over time , but the period we ’re most interested in is the 1920s .
“ This was when the Fife menage were exist here and there were major renovations through Walter Brearley across the star sign and the garden . ”
Meet Nick Fraser – The Head Gardener
“ I ’ve been gardening here at Nunnington Hall for 21 years , primitively as the adjunct gardener , now I ’m the mind nurseryman , ” explains Nick .
“ What I wish most about this garden and work for The National Trust is the diversity of the occupation – every undivided daytime is unlike .
“ We do n’t live what ’s going to happen from one day to the next . We are open to the populace on most day of the week , and we gather a whole chain of mountains of very interesting mass .
“ Not only the staff and volunteers that shape here with us in the garden and the sign but also the visitor that come daily . ”
The Gardens At A Glance
“ My favorite expanse of the garden would have to be the meadow and orchard area , ” share Nick .
“ What I care most about it is the fact that we get several different interest and experiences throughout the season .
“ Eventually , at the destruction of the class , we cut the meadow down and then the yield becomes the star of the show .
“ We open a lowly part of the garden about 15 years ago called the thinning garden , which was earlier close to the public , ” he continues .
“ It ’s where we keep our composting system and cut flowers for the house , and more recently , we ’ve been farm vegetables and herb there .
“ It ’s very popular now to grow herbaceous plant and vegetables at home and lots of the great unwashed are trying it out for themselves , so because we do it on a relatively diminished scale , people can bear on to it .
“ We want to try and maximise the use in a small garden , so we create a wildlife corridor in one of the smaller spaces of the garden .
“ We put a bird eating place and a habitat logarithm wall with a turf top in and also planted a native mixed hedge .
“ We also built some home ground piles and put hedgehog boxes up , as it ’s a great way of life to show people that there ’s still a great deal of opportunities for wildlife in your garden , even in the smaller spaces . ”
Six Bay Composting System
“ We ’re very passionate about composting here at Nunnington Hall , ” says Nick .
“ We render and recycle and reuse as much as potential . We ’re very keen to have close - loop systems , meaning that we try not to polish off any waste product from the garden .
“ We try and utilise as much as possible to make our own compost , mulch , potting mixes and liquidness feeds out of the comfrey and nettle that grow on - situation , as well as the leaf mould that we collect in the car park . ”
To see the full composting process that takes berth at Nunnington Hall , watch the light video below :
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The garden at Nunnington will burst into life in a few weeks , so why not project a visit there yourself ?
Included in the entree for the garden is a tour of Nunnington Hall itself , so why not research the historic building at the centre of the garden whilst you ’re there ?
regain out more about the garden and household at Nunnington on theNational Trust ’s site .
