The English Garden

QUIET SEASON

Returning to live in your childhood home might seem daunting, but Henry Crawley has embraced the situation. His parents moved to Hunworth Hall in Norfolk in 1965 and, after leaving to study medicine, Henry returned to work as a GP here in 1982 with his wife, Charlotte.

The 17th-century house with its Dutch-inspired gables came with a two-and-a-half acre walled garden. It had been divided into a vegetable garden, hidden behind a beech hedge at the rear, and a paddock by the house, where Henry’s parents had kept goats and chickens. Despite being a busy doctor and raising his own family, Henry had big plans. “You always have such enthusiasm for a garden when you start out,”

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