Chris Crowder, the head gardener at Levens Hall in Cumbria, follows the weather forecast at this time of year with dogged interest. "Snow plays havoc with the topiary," he says, "the weight of it ...

If you are a reluctant gardener spare a thought for the team at the Topiary Garden at at Levens Hall in south Cumbria. It is the oldest and largest in the world, but all the hedges and trees have to ...

A garden steeped in centuries of horticultural history is gearing up to celebrate the time-honoured art of topiary.

One of Cumbria’s most popular attractions grabbed the spotlight last night, when it starred on a well-known TV show. Levens Hall and Gardens hit screens on Monday, as it featured on Robson Green’s ...

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Beaumont first planned out the Levens Hall gardens in the 1690s, and they were painstakingly planted and sculpted over the following two decades. Today, more than 332 years later, they're still there ...

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The world's oldest and largest topiary garden is about to be give its annual end-of-summer tidy up. It takes six months to trim the gardens at Levens Hall in the Lake District and is a full time job ...