Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Natural affinity

IN BRIEF

Name Corsley House.

What A relaxed and biodiverse garden, which has recently been brought back to life and now sits comfortably in its rural setting.

Where Wiltshire.

Size Approximately 15 acres.

Soil Free-draining greensand, improved with tonnes of organic matter.

Climate Mild.

Hardiness zone USDA 9.

The Walled Garden, which you enter from the threshing barn on one side and the potting shed on the other, has been revitalised

Corsley House, a handsome ashlar stone building set in wooded land below Cley Hill in rural Wiltshire, had its origins as a Jacobean farmhouse. Just as its Georgian and Victorian additions lend the house character and individuality, so the recent development of its garden, under the ownership of American anglophiles Keith Johnson

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