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    Growing HOT & COLD

    Aug 14, 2019 4 minutes
    WORDS JACKY HOBBS
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    CLIVE NICHOLS

    Not to be confused with ‘the other Hampton Court’, the historic Grade I-listed Tudor manor house of Hampton Court Castle in Herefordshire precedes Henry VIII’s Surrey palace by over 70 years. Hampton Court Castle was built in 1427 by Sir Rowland Lenthall; its encircling gardens, like the castle itself, changing according to fashion and finances over the centuries.

    Originally the castle gardens would have been planted with ornamental, productive and medicinal plants, with the surrounding 1,000-acre wood dedicated to hunting. In the 18th century, fashionable Italianate gardens were added by eminent designers London and Wise, only to

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