After a recent post about the creation of the house and gardens at Kirby Hall in Northamptonshire today’s is going to look at the garden in its late 17thc heyday.
The Guernsey Lily at Kirby today
The reason we know so much about the garden at Kirby and what it contained is because Charles Hatton was an inveterate correspondent. The British Library holds hundreds of letters from him to his brother Christopher, Lord Hatton, at Kirby – often 2 or 3 a week – which are full of political and family news but often with some mention of plants. Between them the brothers created what a visitor in 1692 called “ye finest garden in England”.
What made it so special?
The story of Kirby Hall 
The Garden History Blog 
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