Groombridge Place gardens

The British barrister and architect Philip Packer, with the help of diarist and horticulturist John Evelyn, designed the formal pleasure gardens in 1674, having recently finished building his new house with the help of his friend Christopher Wren.

 

For the following three hundred years the gardens were unseen except by a favoured few, but the gardens are now open to the public, though the house is still a private home.

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