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Welcome to GrowCooked EATERANGE with me, Arthur Parkinson and Sarah Raven.

This week Sarah is off, but I am joined by someone who's created one of my favourite gardens in the UK

and I've got wonderful memories of visiting Eastern Wall Gardens, which is in the Lincolnshire countryside, but it's quite close to Grantham,

and it's nestled in a valley with the beautiful wither Ritham snaking through it,

and it's famous for its sweet peas, thanks to Ursula Chomley, who joins me now.

And Ursula, you discovered the garden, didn't you? Was it about 25 years ago now?

Yeah, so when we got married, we moved here and the village had been like sleeping beauty.

Yeah. During the first World War, the big house had been a hospital and during the second World War, it had been used as an army barracks and um really

the house was in a terrible state of disrepair by the time fred's grandfather really came back to the

house after the war so in 1951 he made for him the heartbreaking decision to pull the house down

and really that took the heart out of the village and it just became a collection of houses

rather than a big house in the middle of a village.

So when we came here, it was totally overgrown.

There were trees 30 foot high.

There was ivy, brambles, elder, ragwort and sycamores everywhere and not really not much else so you can imagine

when I said to my husband in about 2000 do you think we can look at restoring the gardens his

response wasn't totally polite and you live when you go to gram from now is it is it right that

you live in the only bit that's

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