Welcome to The Newt, a working estate set in the Somerset hills between the Mendips and Blackmore Vale. Welcome to The Newt, a working estate set in the Somerset hills between the Mendips and Blackmore Vale. Horticultural writer enelope Hobhouse, who created the Queen Mother’s garden at Walmer Castle in Kent, established the centrepiece, a parabola-shaped walled garden, in the Sixties. We enter via the red garden, where native poppies are broken up with bold strokes of purple provided by lobelias. In the Parabola, unlike many a garden, there are no steps, so it can be reached in a wheelchair.

Source: Daily Mail June 08, 2019 01:29 UTC