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Head Gardener and Estate Manager. Started working at Columbine Hall, Suffolk aged 16 from 1997 to present. Finalist in Professional Gardener of the Year.

Joined March 2017
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2 years
Lobelia still looking good on our plant stand.
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Kate Elliott
1 year
Over 25 years ago Hew & I planted some trees in an area that was nothing but rough grass and brambles. Now it is a woodland. The last few years I have been planting snowdrops there & now they have started to carpet the ground. This fills me with deep joy.
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Kate Elliott
3 years
Our plant stand.
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2 years
The joy of snowdrops.
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Kate Elliott
3 months
I have sown thousands of seeds in my life but no matter how many times I do so, it is still the most exciting and miraculous process. Seeing seedlings come up never fails to delight. 🤗
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Kate Elliott
4 years
We are swathed in a wonderful froth of cow parsley and tulips.
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Kate Elliott
1 year
Wonderful, wonderful cow parsley. I adore it. It epitomises spring for me and I’m relishing every second.
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4 years
My pride and joy - the walled garden.
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Kate Elliott
2 years
We are swathed in a wonderful froth of cow parsley and white tulips.
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Kate Elliott
2 months
There are some plants in the garden that just get on with it - requiring little or no fuss. And those that also provide scent are to be cherished. Lily of the valley is one of them. The perfume is mesmerising. Happy Cut Flower Friday. 🤗 #CutFlowerFriday
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Kate Elliott
8 months
Oh yellow there! It’s Cut Flower Friday and I still have dahlias flowering for you. 🤗 #CutFlowerFriday
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Kate Elliott
5 months
Over 27 years ago Hew and I planted some trees in an area of rough grass, brambles and nettles. A quarter of a century later it is now a woodland. The last few years I have planted snowdrops there & now they are starting to carpet the ground. #SnowdropSunday
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Kate Elliott
4 years
Berry beautiful - Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii 'Profusion'.
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Kate Elliott
4 years
Turn the sound up, take a moment and sit with me for a while.
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Kate Elliott
5 years
Flowering its socks off - the coppery-bronze, sumptuous, scented Tulip 'Brown Sugar'.
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Kate Elliott
4 years
IT IS 23 YEARS AGO TODAY THAT I FIRST CAME TO COLUMBINE HALL. It's the best thing I have ever done. I'm so incredibly lucky. So cheers Columbine....here's to the next 23 years.
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Kate Elliott
2 years
Silky, smoky and sophisticated - Tulip ‘Ronaldo’.
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Kate Elliott
9 months
You’re never too old to collect these autumn beauties. 🤗
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Kate Elliott
3 years
Here it is folks....my pride and joy - the walled garden 2021.
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Kate Elliott
4 years
My beautiful 'Sarah Bernhardt' peonies. ☺️
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Kate Elliott
3 years
We are swathed in a wonderful froth of cow parsley and tulips.
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Kate Elliott
1 year
We’re awash with cow parsley and we still have some white tulips out. 🤗
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Kate Elliott
8 months
Today has given me such joy. I’ve been planting historic daffodils in the woodland that I planted 27 years ago. 🤗
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Kate Elliott
2 months
We’re awash with cow parsley and tulips. (Tulips are ‘Spring Green’, ‘Green Spirit’ & ‘White Triumphator’).
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Kate Elliott
2 years
Aconites - winter's sunshine.
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Kate Elliott
3 years
Planted up another wonderful old trough with 200 Tulip 'White Triumphator'. A pure white lily-flowered tulip that is full of grace and elegance.
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Kate Elliott
3 years
It's that time of year again......just 9,150 to plant this year!
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Kate Elliott
5 months
Little brown jug - green hellebore for Cut Flower Friday. #CutFlowerFriday
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Kate Elliott
2 years
We have reached peak froth in the orchard.
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Kate Elliott
5 months
The daffodil of the moment is ‘Arctic Bells’. It has such a beautiful simple yellow flower that turns white with age. (Part of the 8,750 spring flowering bulbs I planted back in the autumn). It’s an absolute delight - I love it. 🤗
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Kate Elliott
2 years
One of my favourite pelargoniums - the sumptuous 'Lord Bute'.
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Kate Elliott
2 years
Winter posy.
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Kate Elliott
11 months
Can there be a more versatile plant than Erigeron karvinskianus? It’s daisy flowers last for such a long time & it looks wonderful spilling over walls, planted in cracks in paving or steps or as I’ve done here planted it in one of our lovely stone troughs. 🤗
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Kate Elliott
1 year
The joy of snowdrops.
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Kate Elliott
4 months
A teeny tiny jam jar posy for you - gold-laced primula, Scilla siberica, muscari (grape-hyacinth), Pulmonaria ‘Sissinghurst White’ and Anthriscus sylvestris (cow parsley foliage). Happy Good Friday and Cut Flower Friday. 🤗 #CutFlowerFriday
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Kate Elliott
2 years
The silkiest, blue, February mood-lifting Iris Reticulata 'Alida'.
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1 year
Winter posy.
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Kate Elliott
2 years
WE HAVE REACHED PEAK TULIP TIME IN THE WALLED GARDEN. With one of my all time favourites - the elegant, long-lived Tulip ‘Exotic Emperor’ (recently changed its name to ‘White Valley’). Guaranteed to add class and impossible not to love.
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Kate Elliott
2 years
Bright and beautiful - the sweetly scented Iris 'Lady Beatrix Stanley'.
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Kate Elliott
8 months
Also today to add a touch of glamour to this wonderful old trough - I have planted 100 sultry, frilly-edged ‘Black Parrot’ tulips. 🤗
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Kate Elliott
3 months
Cheering up your Cut Flower Friday with Narcissus ‘Cheerfulness’. 🤗 #CutFlowerFriday
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Kate Elliott
3 years
THERE'S A HUGE FEATURE ABOUT ME IN TODAY'S EAST ANGLIAN DAILY TIMES AND......I'VE MADE THE FRONT PAGE!! Whoo hoo! I'm so thrilled. ☺️
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Kate Elliott
1 year
Tulip Tuesday. 🤗
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1 year
Fabulously fragrant R. ‘Albertine’. 🤗
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Kate Elliott
2 years
Have faith - spring is coming.
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Kate Elliott
2 years
Full of grace and elegance - the pure white lily-flowered Tulip ‘White Triumphator’ in one of our wonderful old troughs.
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Kate Elliott
5 years
My pride and joy - the walled kitchen garden.
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Kate Elliott
1 year
R ‘Gertrude Jekyll is bringing me such joy. Named after the famous gardener - it’s wonderfully scented, bright pink and fabulous. 🤗
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Kate Elliott
5 months
Here they come! 🤗 The first to flower of the 8,750 spring flowering bulbs I planted in the autumn are Iris reticulata. Exquisite little flowers whose intense colour will brighten up even the gloomiest of days. You can never have too many!
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6 months
It may be cold with flurries of snow here but oh the joy of discovering bulbs emerging. 🤗
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Kate Elliott
5 months
It’s Cut Flower Friday and my parents Golden Wedding Anniversary so I’ve gone with something golden - these pale yellow and wondrously scented Narcissus ‘Minnow’. (Grown & picked from the greenhouse). #CutFlowerFriday
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Kate Elliott
9 months
They’ve arrived……all 8,750 of them.
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Kate Elliott
2 years
On a wet, grey winter’s day it is good to remind oneself what will be.
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Kate Elliott
1 year
Glorious, glorious May. I adore it. I’m relishing every single second of that wonderful froth of cow parsley and hawthorn and the fresh greenness of everything.
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Kate Elliott
4 years
Everything's coming up roses here. Clockwise from top left - 'Tuscany Superb', 'Charles de Mills', Rosa 'Mundi', 'Blairii No. 2'.
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Kate Elliott
3 years
Little brown jug. Green Hellebore.
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Kate Elliott
2 months
Our black and white tulips are still looking glorious. This display comprises two of the best dark tulips ‘ Queen of Night’ and the sumptuous ‘Black Hero’ and ivory-white ‘Maureen’.
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Kate Elliott
5 months
The joy of snowdrops. A little vase of Galanthus nivalis and ‘Flore Pleno’ then G. ‘Grumpy’, G. ‘Blewbury Tart’, and G. ‘Green Fingers’. Happy Snowdrop Sunday. 🤗 #SnowdropSunday
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Kate Elliott
9 months
The bulb planting continues…..today planting 100 Pheasant’s Eye Narcissus in this lovely old copper. I’ve replaced the compost with a mix of multipurpose peat-free compost and some of my homemade compost & leafmould + grit. Can’t wait until spring. 🤗
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Kate Elliott
2 years
We're ablaze with colour.
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Kate Elliott
2 months
We have reached peak froth with the cow parsley and to celebrate its fabulous frothiness I have picked oodles for you for Cut Flower Friday. 🤗 #CutFlowerFriday
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Kate Elliott
3 months
Happy Cut Flower Friday. I’ve picked for you Tulip ‘Green Star’, ‘Spring Green’ and ‘Maureen’ for your delectation. 🤗 #CutFlowerFriday
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Kate Elliott
2 years
Summer in a vase.
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2 years
It’s that time of year again……just 9,150 to plant this year.
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Kate Elliott
4 years
Delightful dahlias.
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Kate Elliott
1 year
I am so pleased with my pot display down at the house. It is bringing us such joy. 🤗
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Kate Elliott
2 months
Glorious, glorious cow parsley. Nothing celebrates the month of May more. That wonderful frothiness - how I adore it. I’m relishing every hour of it.
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Kate Elliott
7 months
Our Paperwhites are pumping out their fragrance for us. Hope you all have a wonderful Boxing Day. 🤗
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Kate Elliott
4 years
Amazing Alliums.
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Kate Elliott
2 years
I’m so glad they are repeating @TheMontyDon Adriatic Gardens series and what a glorious programme last night’s was exploring the beautiful gardens of Venice. So inspiring. The book is superb too.
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4 months
Now at its glorious best is Narcissus Bath’s Flame’ another historical cultivar from my National Collection of Engleheart Narcissus. Pre-1913 I love how its elegant flowers dance in the wind and how the flowers do not fade as they age.
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5 months
Have hope - spring is coming. These aconites are certainly putting a spring in my step. 🤗
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7 months
I’VE FINISHED ALL OF THE BULBS. I REPEAT OPERATION BULB IS COMPLETE!! The last 1000 of 8,750 have been planted today and you can come and see them at our big open gardens day all in aid of @StElizabethHosp on Sunday April 28th 2024. 🤗
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6 years
It's a berry good show here.
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2 years
Gone potty.
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3 years
IT'S 24 YEARS AGO TODAY that I first came to Columbine. 1st photo shows the walled garden when I arrived - 2nd pic as it is today. It was the site of an old barn, we kept the walls & created a walled garden. So cheers Columbine - here's to the next 24 years.
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4 years
Delicate and delightful - Dahlia 'Mystic Dreamer'.
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7 months
I’m still bulbing folks…..200 Tulip ‘Green Star’ have been planted on our parterre today. That’s 8,150 planted in total so far. 💪
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6 months
It’s Snowdrop Sunday. 🤗 And the first of my special snowdrops are out just in time (in a pot in my unheated greenhouse). ‘Godfrey Owen’ with it’s wide flowers always reminds me of a lampshade! #SnowdropSunday
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Kate Elliott
1 year
New purchase - Geum ‘Prinses Juliana’. 🤗
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1 year
We’ve got all the right mauves on our parterre with Allium ‘Purple Sensation’. 🤗
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3 years
SQUEE. LOOK LOOK.....I'm so thrilled. We have bee orchids.
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1 year
The arrival of the aconites. Have hope - spring is coming.
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Kate Elliott
6 months
Callicarpa bodinieri ‘Profusion’ or beauty-berry is living up to its name. Gleaming mini pom-poms of metallic purple bead-like berries. It’s berry beautiful. 🤗
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2 months
There’s an outbreak of mass wisteria here. We have several wisteria growing around the garden and this wisteria sinensis is joining in and flowering for the first time. 🤗
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Kate Elliott
11 months
Now go on - admit it…..you’ve been waiting for me to do this all day…😉 Yes folks - it’s Cut Flower Friday! And I give you pink gladioli with gypsophila. Cut flowers from the garden are just the best. 🤗 #CutFlowerFriday
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4 months
As well as holding the National Collection of Engleheart daffodils, I have a great love for other historic daffs. And this is giving me great joy - Narcissus ‘Sir Watkin’ Pre 1868 with pretty creamy white flowers surrounding a golden trumpet.
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8 months
Bulb update. Today I have planted 600 Tulip ‘Exotic Emperor’ in our walled garden. Now I know I enthuse about this tulip every year but I really can’t recommend it enough. It flowers for ages & looks good from in bud to when it’s almost dropping. Superb.
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Kate Elliott
3 years
The most beloved dahlia - 'Cafe au Lait'.
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7 months
OPERATION BULB PLANTING IS COMPLETE!!! 8,750. 💪💪
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Kate Elliott
5 months
It’s the first of February, the sun is shining and the hazel catkins are out. They are as striking as any flower and a sure sign that spring is on its way. 🤗
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2 years
Alliums and irises.
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5 years
Columbine Hall, Suffolk will be open for our BIGGEST EVER open day Sunday May 19th 1-5pm all in aid of St. Elizabeth Hospice. Plants for sale, craft stalls, homemade teas and cakes, dogs on leads welcome, under 16's free - please come and support us.
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Kate Elliott
8 months
Play your chards right on Cut Flower Friday…. #CutFlowerFriday
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6 years
My pride and joy. The walled kitchen garden - summer 2018. #suffolk #columbinehall #mygardenrightnow
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2 months
I wish I could send you the fragrance of this blissful wisteria ‘Purple Dragon’. Utterly devine. 🤗
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Kate Elliott
5 years
We are delighting in dazzling dahlias.
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2 months
Looking at their glorious best are our pheasant’s eye narcissi. With their wonderful scent I love to pick a few to bring indoors where their fragrance will fill a room.
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Kate Elliott
8 months
Bulb update….Today has all been about planting up our pots around the garden with some stonking tulip varieties. Including the stunning ‘Chansonette’, ‘Black Parrot’, ‘Super Parrot’, ‘Brown Sugar’, ‘Peppermint Stick’ and ‘Angelique’ 🤗
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11 months
This week I celebrate 27 years of being at Columbine Hall. I am lucky to have been in this special place from the age of 16 & to have seen the development of the gardens from almost the very beginning. So cheers Columbine - here’s to the next 27 years.
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