Beth Chatto's Plants & Gardens | Eclectic,Educational Flowered Attraction near Colchester

Beth Chatto's Plants & Gardens is undoubtedly a great attraction, a complex of beautiful? flowered British gardens near Colchester, an attractive town with a rich historic past which was for a period the major centre and capital of the Roman Britain during the times of the Emperor Claudius boasting in its boundaries splendid medieval gems and a famous iconic Norman Castle.

The gardens are situated in a peaceful village called?Elmstead Market in the County of Essex in the district of Tendring in a captivating setting in the middle of the scenic English countryside.?

It is a stunning creation, an eclectic masterpiece by Beth Chatto,a talented gardener designer, author of several books, an eminent specialist about gardening, plants, flowers and everything linked to the botanical world with a special devotion to the origin, plantation and study of different species from different countries of the globe.

A special aspect to take in high consideration is that the gardens are a sort of educational to suggest ideas and some guidelines to develop a garden.

The idea, project and development of all that you can admire nowadays in Elmstead Market born some decades ago, exactly in 1960 when Beth Chatto was carefully looking at a garden next to her house, concretely a former family fruit farm.?

Mrs. Chatto analyzed that the soil of Essex is very peculiar, in some places too dry while in others very wet, detecting that the only plants very resistant due to the formation of that kind of ground were oaks present all around that gardened space.

?Very interested to all that Mrs Chatto started several botanical operations spending a lot of time with experiments, plantations, analysing in the smallest details all the compounds contained in the local subsoil.?

After further deep studies, arrangements, moving and re-moving surfaces with a right drainage and the choice of determined spaces for the plantation of trees and flowers Beth Chatto also started to be sensitive to the techniques of execution as landscaper designer dedicating time to create defined and stylish gardened layouts.

During the visit you will understand better how that kind of superb work is more than outstanding created on a soil pretty hard to manage planting different species of the most varied origin and provenance.

Some of those plants and flowers are pretty resistant to particular, specific temperatures linked to their native countries in diverse continents and all that you will see there is something simply great.?

This site is a very? complete environment? arranged on a surface which covers approximately 5, 0 acres with water, heavy clay, sun baked gravel, shady?planting, a stunning mosaic with different representations and realities.

You can admire in the creation of Beth Chatto varied kinds of spaces such as the Gravel Garden, Water Garden, Woodland Garden, Scree Garden and Reservoir Garden.

When you will start the visit you will be transported in a sort of botanical world tour walking in some corners resembling to a typical Mediterranean area and your imagination will fly towards Italy, Greece or Spain but you are in Essex-England.?

In the nearest space you will enter into a natural setting typically British or Central European and it is very important to notice that area has never been watered to keep those plants in those magnificent conditions.

In a further section all around you will have the opportunity to admire different types of flowers such as azaleas, roses, rhododendron but others traditionally used to embellish flowerbeds, courtyards or gardens simply perfect to be established in a typical cottage country garden, mansion or villa.

In a very pleasant continuation you will see a group of?flowers located in special, studied sites placed at a short distance from some trees while others are arranged in proximity of a little pond containing some aquatic plants.?

Over hanging a tiny lake you can see a beautiful weeping willow tree and a little blue rowing boat added as scenic complements to that enchanting area, an image which partially is pretty similar to a well known site as Claude Monet′s? garden in his house of Giverny in Northern France.

The combination of colours of different kinds of flowers and plants placed in specific positions and corners ad carefully selected with shaped rotundas, undulated sections or close to diverse elements generate pleasant sensations and feelings.

The general view is spectacular for the contrast of different species coming from different lands with the sensation that all is like painted, greatly surprising is the extraordinary mix of typical British and Oriental elements is simply magnificent.

In some corners the impression is to be in of?Hampton Court or Kensington Gardens, those emblematic verdant spaces of London but perhaps with a more exotic touch in those details you can see in Beth Chatto garden.

In a further area the garden also resembles a bit to some Parisian parks as Parc de Buttes-Chaumont or Bois de Vincennes for the floral rotundas, the green, varied vegetation which surrounds a tiny water basin which in something observing some specific points from a different perspective is also reminiscent to the wonde well known Englisch Garten of Munich.

Another attractive point is a small bridge located in a position in which the visitor will come into another section moving across that passage for a next different, beautiful view in a following environment where you can see some other stylish details as a perfect and geometric subdivision of the flower beds and determined hallways.?

In that point you will notice there something in common?with those magnificent gardens you can admire on Lake Maggiore in the famed Villa Taranto at Verbania-Pallanza in Italy.

That is a further detail, it is not just the passion for plantation linked to the concrete botanical operations and processes but the protagonists are also the geometry and art to develop something of aesthetically fascinating.

You will admire also the symmetry of the plantation along the passages leading to other specific corners containing other different kinds of plants where the quality of the design of the arrangement with a considerable quantity in species,

The presence of different variety of tonalities is something which is not often very easy to combine but all that is the right plant for the right place which is the principle and clear message of Beth Chatto.

A special feature of that place is that it is not too big, you can easily visit it in a very comfortable way, the distance between a section and another is pretty short offering the great chance to return very quickly in one point which impressed you more with extreme easiness.?

Part of the complex is dedicated to the nursery plants and offering a wide range of products really remarkable. The site also provides a Tea Room, a parking, excellent facilities if you want to enjoy a cool drink or a warm beverage and to place your car very close to the entrance. ?

Beth Chatto's Plants & Gardens is not far from London and driving by A12 motorway you have to follow the indications towards?Colchester and Elmestead Market reaching that site in approximately in one hour and twenty minutes.?

By train from London Liverpool Street Station is approximately the same time, once you will be at Colchester Railway Station you have to take a taxi and in just some minutes you will be at destination while Stansted Airport is just 50 minutes driving away.

If you are planning a tour of England discovering the local art, history also with its captivating English countryside you can add a visit to this flowered British gardens, a splendid mix to enjoy tourism, nature and a botanical are in an experience you will remember with great pleasure.

Link : https://www.bethchatto.co.uk/