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| David Jordan - © NT
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The Dahlia Garden is a curved border that is designed in such a way as to prevent the viewer from seeing the whole garden from either end.
Lord Fairhaven, who spent a long time marking out the shape to fit the above criteria, created the garden in 1952.
A close cut Beech hedge whose formality greatly emphasises the exuberant flowering of the Dahlias from July onwards surrounds the whole garden.
The Dahlias are ranged in order of height, the highest at the back down to the shorter varieties at the front, each plant supported by a system of canes and garden twine.
The plants are raised anew each year by cuttings taken in the early spring from stock plants over wintered in the nursery area in the village of Lode.
The cuttings are planted out usually during the first week in June, and will generally start flowering within a months' time.
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