Just amazing walled gardens with the perfect water source at Ickworth House in Suffolk. We have been coming to Ickworth for tens of years since my father moved nearby. It's one of our favourite places to visit but none of us, including Dad, had ever seen this part before - that's the beauty of this magical place, it's full of hidden gems; a huge, walled vegetable garden with an immense vineyard and beautiful high-brick walled productive gardens sweeping down to the lake. In the middle is a wonderful sun-room, high-ceilinged and isolated, with only an enormous fig for company and views of the lake, the perfect place to sit and ponder life itself. It's obvious that these gardens had been left derelict until quite recently, but they are now buzzing with life and some have even been donated to the local school, so there is now a lively productive garden complete with quirky scarecrows standing guard.
