2 The Laurel Walk

This walk with its solid bank of laurel, known as  laurel lawn, was hugely overgrown.  The laurel was so tall that it overhang to meet in the middle making this a dark and damp walk.  We cut it back very severely and let it re-grow. 

In the nineteen thirties it was the Head Gardener’s task to trim the Laurel Lawn, each plant was pruned individually and it   took him, with the garden boy tidying up behind him, the best part of a month each year. 

  We now trim it once a year with a long mechanical hedge trimmer!   

  Do not miss the path leading off this main walk part way along on the west side to take you round above the Fountain to the Rose Garden.

The view over the Fountain and the Sundial Terrace to the Shell Folly  at the top of the Park was clearly planned as a focal point of  the garden.