Alscot Parkland Restoration Scheme

April 2018

We are really excited to be implementing a plan for short and long-term planting schemes. During the course of the year the garden team will execute plans to transform areas of the garden and to create new features and vibrancy to suit the seasons.

Longer term we are working on a ten year landscape plan with the forestry team for the outer parkland, which follows a survey carried out by Professor Tom Williamson, University of East Anglia, on the history of the landscape.  The survey identifies areas, such as the “Lynches”, and explains that in the middle decades of the eighteenth century this particular area of scrub and woodland was occupied by a detached ‘rococo’ pleasure ground, containing a circuit path and a number of ornamental buildings and structures. It is Emma's ambition to recreate and reinstate some of these historic features and in addition enhance planting across the 100 hectare park.

It is our intention to name a new tree, planted within the parkland, after each current member of the Alscot team that has served 10 years or more on the Estate.