National Trust’s Garden of the Future
August 7, 2024
By Paul Homewood
The woke NT are at it again!
A Mediterranean garden stocked with hardier plants designed to survive hotter summers and wetter winters has been unveiled at a National Trust property in Yorkshire.
The new garden at the stately home Beningbrough Hall, near York, features more than 4,000 perennials, grasses, trees and shrubs from the Mediterranean and areas around the world with a similar climate.
The plants in the garden, hailing from places as far afield as South Africa, South Korea, Chile, China and Australia, were selected by award-winning designer Andy Sturgeon for their ability to cope better with hotter, drier summers and wetter winters.
The National Trust said extremes in local weather over the past year have underlined the need to adapt Beningbrough’s garden.
Andy Jasper, the charity’s head of gardens and parklands, said it hoped visitors would enjoy the garden but also “be inspired to future-proof their own gardens”.
“With more intense weather events, including drought and floods, predicted, our gardens need to change to better tolerate extremes,” he said.
Progress to deliver the Mediterranean garden has been held up by the very wet weather in the past year, with rain “almost every day” – an irony which the garden team said was not lost on them.
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