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  • The English Garden

    Faith, Hope & Charity

    Jan 27, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS BARBARA SEGALL
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    RICHARD BLOOM

    The bumpy track that leads to Fullers Mill doesn’t prepare you for the awakening spring mix of connoisseur’s plants that spills from the brimming borders, nor for the mists and shapes that rise from lake and stream.

    Over the course of 50 years, plantsman and head brewer of the Greene King brewery, Bernard Tickner (1924-2017), transformed a wild and untamed seven-acre site deep in the forest at West Stow, Suffolk, into a magical, secluded haven for plants and wildlife. The garden he created has overflowed into the spaces alongside the twin watercourses of the River Lark and the Culford Stream that meander gently by.

    Nestled snugly at the end of a track

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