An English Garden in Summer. A Visit To East Ruston Old Vicarage Garden with pictures,photographs.

This garden is like walking through a living three dimensional art gallery. Each time you turn a corner a different landscape opens up to you. Yet it flows seamlessly from one wonderful visual surprise to the next. I will not post all of my pictures here. I got carried away and took lots of photographs; and if I posted them all here it would be like reading a book and revealing the end to someone waiting to read it next.

Anyone who loves plants,garden design and colour would find it difficult to find the equal of this garden .

This is gardening on a large scale but the ideas here could give inspiration and motivation to any gardener. The plant combinations used and the way colours shapes and textures are combined and contrasted could in some cases be adapted to a more modest space.

There are many themes here and some of the planting ideas are brave but for me they worked. You are not far into your walk around the garden when you realise what an amazing achievement its creation is.

I have only visited this garden in the summer but it is so well designed I think it would be a pleasure to see it at any time of the year.

For me this is the best garden I have ever visited; It has so many wonderful ideas skillfully put together in one garden such as meadow areas, traditional and more 'formal' areas such as the topiary in the photographs above. 

I visited the Old Vicarage Garden in June it was a lovely sunny day which made taking the photographs of it easy.  I had visited it about five years ago and I was amazed at how much had changed in that time, if you wish to read more about the evolution of the garden a visit to the Old Vicarage web page is worth while.

East Ruston Old Vicarage Garden is situated one and a half miles from the North Sea. The house and some of the land was purchased in 1973 but if you want to read more of its history and to find about out who created it you need to visit the garden or at least the web site created about it.

If you liked these photographs and would like to see more of this garden but are unable to visit it yourself then click on the link to the Old Vicarage's web site. The creators of The Old Vicarage Garden have made an excellent web site of the gardens.

You will find yourself transported to an English Garden in summer .... the Old Vicarage, East Ruston, Norfolk.