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A trip down memory lane as Brunton Hall turns 50
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On 21 April 1926, Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in London, at the Mayfair home of her maternal grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. The former house in which she was born was at No. 17 Bruton Street and although the house no longer exists, the site is of great historical interest and a focus on this building is all the more timely, as we remember the birth taking place ninety-one years ago this week. The Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne owned several estates, Glamis Castle being the Earl’s ancestral seat, together with the country house of St Pauls Walden Bury. The Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne had herself been born in Belgravia in 1862 but the location of her daughter’s birth is less certain; among the suggestions of the location of the future Duchess of York’s birth in 1900 include the Strathmore Westminster home of Belgrave Mansions, Grosvenor Gardens as well a
G. gracilis and
G. elwesii.”
Hynes, who moved to Cherubeer 30 years ago, grew snowdrops in her previous Buckinghamshire garden having been given three named varieties by the late Gwladys Tonge, who was Hardy Plant Society chairman from 1987 to 1990. Those three originals, ‘Scharlockii’, ‘Viridapice’ and ‘Atkinsii’, moved to Devon and were soon joined by ‘Magnet’, ‘Colossus’ and ‘S. Arnott’.
“These big and bold varieties make large clumps without self-seeding,” Hynes tells me. “My garden relies on larger clumps grown in the ground to create a backbone of white.”
Her snowdrops are placed carefully to lead the eye, perhaps towards a fine witch hazel, or the fiery orange-red stems of a willow (
Blossoming snowdrop flowers (Galanthus) stand in Gador
Credit: Tibor Rosta
These early flowering spring bulbs were probably the first flowers I identified. I was a very short-sighted child – and as a consequence was often flat on my face. My mother thought I was just extraordinarily clumsy.
I will always love snowdrops but, as Anna Pavord points out, to be a snowdrop buff you need special qualities: “A circulation system of cast iron and brilliant eyesight.” Perhaps because I have neither, the big white sheets of “ordinary” snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis), are still my favourites.
Our family lived in the Cotswolds near Bath, and grassy banks with limy soil encouraged the “native” G. nivalis to flourish and make large drifts. It is now thought that it is not really native but has naturalised, having arrived around the 1500s.
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