Ludwig Messel moved to Nymans in Sussex in the late 19th century. At that time, there were a number of plant hunters who had been travelling to Chile, Tibet, and the middle of China and collecting rare species of plants. Ludwig Messel and his sons were keen to design the garden using foreign plants. They employed James Comber as a head gardener and some plant hunters. And those people planted dozens of exotic plants in Nymans Gardens. Nymans Garden is one of the most attractive 20th century garden with a wide variety of Asian, South American, West Asian flowers, shrubs, and trees and foreign garden ornaments, e.g. Italian marble statues and fountains, Byzantine urns, Japanese lanterns, the Great Temple, Wisteria pergola, and topiaries. The highlights of plant collections are Japanese irises, azaleas, hydrangeas, Tibetan rhododendrons, Lebanon
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