Located in Lincolnshire, Easton Walled Gardens has been owned and managed by the Cholmeley family since 1561. Since 2001, Ursula and Fred Cholmeley have been restoring the ancient garden. In continuous development, the 12 acre gardens include herbaceous borders, meadow, roses, sweet peas, spring bulbs, cut flower and vegetable gardens, all set within the beautiful parkland.
One of Easton’s highlights is the Sweet Pea Season, which for 2025 begins on the 25th of June and will run throughout July. Visitors can enjoy the scents and delights of their impressive collection of more than 40 varieties of sweet peas, in all manner of scents and colourings, ranging from stripes, bicolours, picotee, light pastels to deep velvet tones.
Talking about the sweet peas, Easton Walled Gardens owner, Ursula Cholmeley says: “A favourite is ‘Purple Pimpernel.’ It is very tall and vigorous and always the first to flower. ‘Mollie Rilstone’s’ pink and cream flowers with green buds is the perfect combination for a country house look. White is always good in a bouquet, you could grow ‘Border Beauty’ or ‘Clotted Cream.’ ‘Albutt Blue,’ an exceptional semi-grandiflora, has the benefits of largish flowers, great scent and the charm of old varieties. It looks very pretty with ‘Watermelon’ and perhaps ‘Kingfisher’.”