Gresgarth Hall
Garden created by Lady Arabella Lennox-Boyd and winner of Historic Houses Garden of the Year: Judges' Choice Award 2020.
Caton, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 9NB
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Since moving to Gresgarth Hall in Lancashire in 1978 with her family, Arabella Lennox-Boyd developed the gardens there, marrying Italian style with British plantmanship.
In 1989 Arabella formed ‘Arabella Lennox-Boyd Landscape and Architectural Design’ where she heads a team of designers that have designed and developed the glorious gardens that you will see today.
Arabella has been designing gardens for over forty-five years and has landscaped more than four hundred gardens worldwide, including six Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal gardens and the Best of Show winner in 1998, while she created the Rooksnest Lambourn Woodlands in Berkshire, which was an “exceptionally fine” ten acre “traditional English garden” for Dame Theresa (née Rowling) Sackler.
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Arabella Lennox Boyd
I think I’m proud generally of the garden. I don’t think there’s a particular part [I like best] because they all satisfy one particular need of mine. It’s either for my work or my love of trees, and love of adventure, and love of collecting, or my love of food.
I think I’m happy, I can’t say I’m proud, because that’s not me, but I’m happy with the way I’ve connected the house and its little formal bit, which I needed to have round the house, like the terraces and the steps, how I connected that to the natural landscape.
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Gresgarth Hall
Caton, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 9NB
