DESIGN STORIES: Circe’s Garden

I first visited Mount Stewart nearly ten years ago. As soon as I walked into the garden on that warm damp day in May I was captivated by its charm. We had travelled to Northern Ireland for the wedding of a friend but, as my grandmother’s family are from there, we stayed an extra few days to explore, driving up to the Giant’s Causeway and then south, to County Down, where we stayed in a little Georgian B&B (sadly no longer operating as such) on Strangford Lough visiting Castle Ward, which I would also recommend, and Mount Stewart.