A Tour During Tatton Park Flower Show in Cheshire

The 2009 tour of five NGS Cheshire gardens during Tatton Park Show week was a successful first and, as Cheshire has such a wealth of good gardens, we’re convinced 2010 will be even better.

Our first garden is Parm Place in the pretty - if hilly - village of Great Budworth where Jane Fairclough has some of the most amazing views of the county. This a garden that can’t put a foot wrong, and so immaculate you’d imagine she spent all and every day on it – if you didn’t know her strong love is also golf!! 

Janet Bashforth’s garden Mayfield, in the equally pretty , and also quite hilly, village of Lymm, boasts one horse chestnut, one beech one oak and 5 sycamore trees - all splendidly mature.  So gardening in the shade and in dry conditions has always been a challenge to her, but it is one she has overcome beautifully and, in late July, her garden is aglow with colour from monardas, penstemons, phlox, echinacea and scrambling clematis.

We will also visit the extensive gardens at Cholmondeley Castle at Malpas where Lavinia, Marchioness of Cholmondeley will kindly introduce us to its delights, including the rose garden and the picturesque temple by the lake.

Diversity is the name of the game at our last garden, Springbank. There’s so much to see in this garden set in a hollow with its pond, bog garden, and rose covered pergola.

Our guide will be Nicholas Payne, the NGS County Organiser for Cheshire

Date: Thursday 22nd July 2010
Time: 9am prompt
Pick up and drop off point: Tabley House Museum visitors’ car park, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 0HB

Price £90 includes lunch with wine, coach and all garden entrance fees

For more information contact Janine Wookey at:

Gardens Etc,
4 Piermont Green,
East Dulwich,
London,
SE22 0LP

Tel: 020 8693 1015
Mobile: 07711 279 636
Email: j.wookey @btinternet.com

http://www.gardentoursetc.co.uk/