Nymans
Nymans in West Sussex is a house and garden of rare romantic beauty, built around the ruins of a mock-medieval manor that was largely destroyed by fire in 1947 — and left partly so, its roofless walls now draped in climbing plants and fused with the garden around them. The plantsman's garden created by the Messel family is one of the great twentieth-century gardens of England, famous for its collections and for the atmosphere of cultivated wildness it sustains throughout the seasons. Ruin and bloom sit side by side here in a way that feels entirely right.
- Romantic fire-ruined manor house
- One of England's great plantsman's gardens
- Year-round interest and colour
Best for garden lovers and romantics drawn to beauty that is all the more poignant for its impermanence.