# Columbine Hall: a remarkable island garden on an ancient moated estate in Suffolk

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Podcast: [How My Garden Grows](https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-my-garden-grows-7474641)
Published: 2026-09-09T10:31:16+00:00
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## Resource

Columbine Hall is the home of newspaper publisher Hew Stevenson. He and his late wife first saw a very different sight in November 1992: a concrete farmyard covered in mud, but the moat was breached and the couple embarked on a lifelong transformation. They gradually demolished grain silos, buried overhead wires and removed asbestos. View were enhanced by planting 1,000 English native woodland trees, and a garden of vistas emerged …

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