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Mount Stewart Garden Appeal
Help us bring the Lily Wood back to it's former glory
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The gardens at Mount Stewart are feeling their age.
Developed from an 18th-century designed landscape, modified in the mid-Victorian era and finally elaborated on by Lady Londonderry in the 1920s, many of the basic structural elements are in need of renewal.
Lily Wood was where Edith, Lady Londonderry pursued her passion for fragrant lilies. She planted bold ribbons of lilies whose heavy scent pervaded the wood during the summer. Tiled field drains were placed throughout the wood to ensure it drained freely to allow these bulbs to flourish.
Today, these drains have become silted and blocked by thirsty tree roots and in many places the Lily Wood floods for days at a time. As a result several conifers and other exotic trees have succumbed and died.
By giving to the Mount Stewart Garden Appeal, you will help us to replace the old drainage and re-stock the Lily Wood. So once again, our visitors will be delighted by the sight and scent of massed plantings of lilies.
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