Bluebells, butterflies and buzzards: Hoveton Hall Gardens Opens New Bluebell Walk

Coppiced woodland also offers chance to see great range of plants, birds and butterfliesDuring May 2012 Hoveton Hall Gardens will open up a new path through part of the estate not normally open to the public, to allow visitors to enjoy the beautiful carpets of wild bluebells.  The self-guided trail will lead visitors from the watergarden through areas of coppiced woodland and along the lakeside.  Hoveton’s head horticulturalist Stewart Wright says: “The practice of coppicing has died out in many woodlands, but here it continues to provide ideal conditions in which the bluebell bulbs