CATHERINE COURTENAY discovers history and tranquillity in Dartington Hall’s Grade 2* listed gardens.
THERE is often a deep connection between gardener and garden, one which may take years to develop but can be intensely strong, being born out of passions that veer from gentleness, to frustration, then joy.
A garden will reveal where a loving hand has carefully pruned or weeded, or where sheer brute force (and maybe a few tears!) has been employed to restrain uncontrollable growth. The character of gardeners past and present is there, sometimes wrapped up in stories which permeate the generations.
Walking into the courtyard at Dartington, with the Great Hall facing you, the sense of history is strong. There’s been a human presence on this site since at least 833AD although records properly pick up from 1385 with the Holand family and, via a few changes of ownership in the middle years, to the Champernownes who were here from 1559 for eleven generations.
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