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Step inside 22 of East Anglia’s most enchanting private gardens.
Secret Gardens of East Anglia celebrates the horticultural heritage of Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Essex, a region defined by its big skies and extraordinary light. These natural conditions have inspired generations of garden-makers to create landscapes unlike anywhere else in Britain.
Introduced by eminent East Anglian plantswoman, Beth Chatto, this book brings each garden vividly to life through the words of respected garden writer Barbara Segall and the evocative photography of Marcus Harpur. Together, they capture the spirit of these gardens, the creator’s style, their talent for exploiting the genius loci and the specific challenges and rewards they have encountered.
Featured gardens include:
- Columbine Hall—a moated garden with a series of green rooms.
- Helmingham Hall Gardens—a gem of a garden hidden in its own moated island.
- Kirtling Tower—a field of daffodils for a Tudor gatehouse.
- The Manor House, Fenstanton—garden rooms on Capability Brown’s private estate.
- Ulting Wick—thousands of tulips against a backdrop of black wooden barns.
- Winterton Lighthouse—a lush yet restrained garden framing a lighthouse.
- Wyken Hall—vines and roses around an Elizabethan manor house.
Whether you’re seeking inspiration, planning visits, or simply indulging in the beauty of English gardens, this book is your perfect companion.
Explore even more magnificent gardens with other books in the series: Secret Gardens of the Cotswolds, Secret Gardens of Somerset and Secret Gardens of Cornwall.
About the author
Barbara Segall is a well-known horticulturist and garden writer. Her work appears in a number of popular publications such as The English Garden and the website Richard Jackson’s Garden. She is editor of The Horticulturist, the journal of the Chartered Institute of Horticulture and also editor of Herbs magazine for The Herb Society. She lives in Suffolk, one of the prettiest counties in East Anglia, and writes regularly on gardens, gardeners and garden style for magazines and her own blog www.thegardenpost.com Her first book with Frances Lincoln was Gardens By The Sea with photography by Jerry Harpur.
MARCUS HARPUR began his career in book publishing before joining his father, Jerry, to form Harpur Garden Library in 1992. He is a contributing photographer to the RHS Garden Plant Selector and the Colourful Gardening series and principal photographer on titles such as How to Garden, Dream Gardens of England and The English Country House Garden (Frances Lincoln)
