Homestead Park
Rowntree-founded public garden of rose beds, rockery, ornamental lake and themed summer bedding.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Homestead Park in York begins in the flowerbeds beside the café, where gardeners and a willow sculptor once filled the summer bedding with characters from a storybook. It follows the people behind the park's yearly displays, from a gardener with a design idea to the illustrator she set out to honour. Along the way it reaches back to the social reformer who opened his family garden to York's schoolchildren, and to the wartime night the park lost its strangest residents. Stand by the beds near the children's play area to listen.
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