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Windy Hall, Windermere

At Windy Hall high above Lake Windermere in the English Lake District Diane and David make the most of plants that thrive in their wet climate and acid soil, welcoming mosses and liverworts and making features of these beautiful plants that other gardeners may treat as pests. The garden occupies four acres of hillside and can get a whopping 6ft of rain per annum. The rocky site includes woodland planted with rhododendrons, camellias, magnolias and hydrangeas underplanted with bluebells and foxgloves. Moss and Japanese influenced gardens give the garden a distinctive twist and surrounding fields are grazed by Hebridean sheep.

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Dawn sunlight breaks through mist and trees above the pond with moored canoe, surrounded by magenta Primula pulverulenta, iri...
Dawn sunlight breaks through mist and trees above the pond with moored canoe, surrounded by magenta Primula pulverulenta, fer...
Dawn sunlight breaks through mist and trees above the pond with moored canoe, surrounded by magenta Primula pulverulenta, fer...
Bog garden illuminated by dawn sunlight includes Primula pulverulenta, hostas, ferns and lysichiton. Windy Hall, Windermere, ...
Quarry garden from where stone was quarried to build the house, now inspired by Japanese gardens and a love of wild plants in...
Quarry garden from where stone was quarried to build the house, now inspired by Japanese gardens and a love of wild plants in...
Candelabra primulas in stone troughs. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Drystone wall running between woodland garden and adjoining field with oak and bluebells. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Seat in bluebells in the woodland at the top of the garden. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Woodland garden full of rhododendrons, pieris, camellias and azaleas that enjoy the area's acid soil. Windy Hall, Windermere,...
Moss path bordered by pillowy mounds of Polytrichum formosum. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Moss path bordered by pillowy mounds of Polytrichum formosum. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Euphorbia griffithii 'Fireglow' with bronze rodgersia foliage in a boggy area beside the pond. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbri...
Tropaeolum polyphyllum. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Tropaeolum polyphyllum. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Arisarum proboscideum, also known as the mouse plant. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Aesculus pavia 'Rosea Nana'. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Diane Hewitt and David Kinsman, owners and creators of the garden at Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Diane Hewitt and David Kinsman, owners and creators of the garden at Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Polytrichum formosum. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
A foliose lichen, peltigera, carpeting the ground of the Quarry garden. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Hebridean sheep with lambs in a field adjoining the garden. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Lithospermum diffusa. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Paeonia delavayi. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Dicentra spectabilis above a mossy wall colonised by ferns and Chrysosplenium alternifolium in the front garden. Windy Hall, ...
Chrysosplenium alternifolium. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Clematis alpina 'Columbine'. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Crinodendron hookerianum, the Chilean lantern tree, is planted against a rock outcrop in the garden, which affords it protect...
Conservatory built between the house and the rocky outcrop behind it, is home to a range of tender species such as aspidistra...
Conservatory built between the house and the rocky outcrop behind it, is home to a range of tender species including Geranium...
Conservatory built between the house and the rocky outcrop behind it, is home to a range of plants that would not survive in ...
Conservatory built between the house and the rocky outcrop behind it, is home to a range of plants that would not survive in ...
Conservatory built between the house and the rocky outcrop behind it, is home to a range of tender species including Geranium...
Conservatory built between the house and the rocky outcrop behind it, is home to a range of tender species including Geranium...
Rhododendron kamtschaticum. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Moss, Polytrichum formosum, in the woodland garden. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Moss, Polytrichum formosum, in the woodland garden. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Sorbus chamaemespilus, false medlar. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Luscious mounds of moss are encouraged in the woodland garden. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Luscious mounds of moss are encouraged in the woodland garden. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Maianthemum bifolium. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Foliose peltigera, a lichen, and emerald mosses carpet the ground of the quarry garden. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Quarry garden from where stone was quarried to build the house, now inspired by Japanese gardens and a love of wild plants in...
Magenta Primula pulverulenta. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Hosta (Tardiana Group) 'Halcyon'. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
The Privy Garden, its stone walls covered with mosses, ivy and ferns. Windy Hall, Windermere, Cumbria, UK
There are views of the Lake District mountains to be had from the elevated position of the house and garden above Bowness-on-...
The 'best' garden at the front of the house is the most formal area of the garden, with clipped hedges of yew and box framing...
The 'best' garden at the front of the house is the most formal area of the garden, with clipped hedges of yew and box framing...
Dicentra spectabilis above a mossy wall colonised by ferns and Chrysosplenium alternifolium in the front garden. Windy Hall, ...
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