Set among the beautiful Northamptonshire countryside, our unique 60 acre private woodland garden has a large and notable collection of plants, trees, and shrubs. As May ushers in warmer weather, around 100 magnolias put on a magnificent display, complemented by azaleas and rhododendrons. The garden fills with delightful sights and scents. Opens Saturday 18th May.
These gardens are a must to see before sale at the end of the year. Parkland, meadows and woodland. Formal gardens by Harold Peto featuring 20 interlinking ponds, impressive water garden known as The White Sea. Large Horsham stone terraces and lawns look out onto clipped yew hedging and specimen trees. One of the finest views of the South Downs, Chanctonbury Ring and Lancing Chapel. Turf labyrinth and organic vegetable garden. Opens Sunday 19th May.
Something different! Visits start promptly at 10am and 1pm with guided tour around a 140ft garden with stream, azaleas, rhododendrons, camellias, pond and many wildlife habitats. Display of bonsai in development and tree nursery. Then enjoy informal bonsai demonstration from Julia, an enthusiast who also holds ‘Create a Bonsai’ hands-on experiences and is a member of bonsai societies. Q&A and refreshments. Opens Saturday 25th May, pre-booking essential.
Organic and environmentally friendly, our garden has a herb labyrinth, cottage garden borders, vegetable beds and tunnels, fruit cages, orchard, small wildflower meadow area, shrubs, small wooded/wild patch, hens, hedgehog house, bug hotels, bird boxes and bat boxes, small pond and bog garden. Interesting arches, compost bins, water butts and a collection of 50 varieties of mints. Opens Saturday 25th, Sunday 26th and Monday 27th May.
Since 2015, the garden has been created from scratch using no-dig methods and is a showcase for these techniques. It’s organic, wildlife rich and constantly evolving, with copious flower beds, herb terraces, vegetable gardens, pond, greenhouses, polytunnel, shady seating, all in 1½ acres. Far-reaching views. Steps, slopes, uneven gravel and woodchip paths. Opens Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th May.
Large Victorian garden, spectacular rhododendrons, azaleas. Herbaceous borders, extensive yew hedges, lawns, long woodland walk with bluebells and other woodland flowers. Magnificent views of upper Wye Valley. Opens Sunday 26th May.
Approx 2½ acres designed to fit seamlessly into the spectacular landscape. The result of three generations of gardening enthusiasm. A garden inspired by an Edwardian plantsman with a fascinating history. The garden has been extensively re-developed over the last 15 yrs and incorporates woodland and herbaceous borders, arboretum, rare trees and shrubs many grown from seed. Opens Monday 27th May, pre-booking essential.
Interesting late spring garden extending through three areas inc camellias, Phillyrea latifolia and hoheria. There is a small area of scented azaleas and rhododendron. A walled potager containing summer vegetables and herbs. Opens Monday 27th May.
Rookwoods is a tranquil garden where you can enjoy a variety of mature trees, herbaceous borders, a shrubbery, pleached hornbeam rooms and a walk through an ancient oak wood. Discover our work-in-progress wildflower bed, along with a buttercup meadow. Opens Monday 27th May.
A multi interest and surprising garden. The front garden is planted prairie style. In the rear garden a patio area with seating is surrounded by a small rockery, numerous pots and two herbaceous beds one for hot dry and the other partial shade. Steps lead to densely planted side borders and a fernery. The lawned area is inset with a wildflower meadow and a winter garden of silver birches. Opens for By Arrangement visits from 3rd June to 28th June for groups of between 4 and 10.
Two acres surround the house. To the north is a renovated walled kitchen garden with trained fruit trees, roses, raised veg beds as well as a colourful herbaceous border. To the east is an old grass tennis court that had turned to scrubland but now has a mown labyrinth running across it with a small nuttery at one end surrounding a wildlife pond. To the south west of the house through a rose covered archway is a white & yellow terrace garden that sits above a new brick wall that we built a few years ago. Opens Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd June.
Join Head Gardener, Andrew Lawson, for a very special private tour of the gardens, after which you will have the rest of the day free to meander a myriad of winding paths through flowers of the King Protea and the handsome Lobster Claw, great blue spires of Echium, brilliant Furcraea, Strelitzia and shocking-pink drifts of Pelargonium. World renowned Tresco Abbey Garden is home to plants from every Mediterranean climate zone, flourishing just 28 miles off the coast of Cornwall. Opens Wednesday 5th June, pre-booking essential.
The gardens are spread over 4½ acres with formal and wild areas, a hedged quiet garden, and inc collections of naturalised bulbs, irises, peonies, magnolias, shrub roses, cherries, malus and a number of rare trees, expanded and planted by the existing owners over the past 55 yrs. Opens Saturday 8th June.
Binsted Place, a C17 farmhouse with attractive local stone outbuildings, is surrounded by a series of garden rooms covering approx 1½ acres, enclosed by yew hedges and old walls. Wheatley House is situated on a rural hilltop with panoramic views over Alice Holt Forest and the South Downs. The owner admits to being much more of an artist than a plantswoman, but has had great fun creating this 1½ acre garden full of interesting and unusual planting combinations. Opens Sunday 9th June.
This glorious garden, with views over the surrounding countryside, has been created during the last 20 years with the help of designer Justin Spink and is divided into different areas. The parterre contains roses and magnolias, climbing roses tumble over arches, well stocked herbaceous borders, a lawned area leading to the wildflower meadow and a small cutting garden make this a wonderful garden to explore and enjoy. Opens Thursday 13th June.
4 acre designer’s garden with many areas of interest. Features inc four lovely long herbaceous borders attractively and densely planted in different colour sections, a formal rose garden, an old orchard with a grass meadow, pretty pond and peaceful wooded area. Large variety of plants, trees and a productive fruit and vegetable patch. Opens Friday 14th June, pre-booking essential.
Renowned plant collectors’ garden; three acres; grounds to old country house (not open). Walled, woodland and Crûg gardens filled with unusual and shade loving plants and trees, many not seen in cultivation before. Chelsea Gold Medallists and winners of the President’s Award. Opens Saturday 15th June.
A garden styled in different zones, starting in the front garden with a profusion of colourful planting and a morning deck area with a water feature. The side path gives interest with a rockery. The back garden has a rose garden, lawn, pretty greenhouse, deck and larger shrubs with planting making maximum use of space. Opens on various dates from June to September.
The 8 acre garden is part of a C17 manor house consisting of formal and informal gardens inc a rose garden, herbaceous and shrub borders, pergola walk, an arboretum with a large pond, orchard and kitchen and herb garden. The various gardens are on different levels and are currently going through a complete restoration. Opens Wednesday 19th June and Wednesday 18th September.
A passionate, plant persons town garden set within Victorian walls, incorporating full borders of both select herbaceous and woody plants and trees surround a central lawned area. Many plants are homegrown within the greenhouse with wildlife in mind and adorn the borders year-round whilst the mature trees surrounding the garden, welcome many birds. Opens Friday 21st June, Sunday 23rd June.
Five beautifully designed, modern courtyard gardens, plus several residents’ gardens, set in a semi-urban community in Stow-on-the-Wold. The gardens and main lawn area with feature pod are set against a contemporary design of Cotswold apartment communities. Opens Sunday 23rd June.
11 acres of grass, lake, ponds and woodland. The woodland contains a quiet area for meditation. A beach hut sits beside the larger wildlife pond. A smaller pond within the wood for insects and birds. A laurel walk by the fairy village is protected by dragons. A Tiki hut sits by the lake, as does a large decked area for relaxing. Opens Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th June.
An ancient stannary town, Lostwithiel dates back to the C12. A bustling and colourful little town with a strong sense of community and camaraderie. Our pop up group of gardens comprise five great little gardens, each with their own sense of style, but typically small-town gardens. They are guaranteed to inspire those who have their own small garden and showcase what can really be done with such a small space. Opens Saturday 29th June.
This garden surrounds a Grade l listed Manor House with breathtaking views of the surrounding countryside (tours of the house in aid of the local church). Beautiful herbaceous borders, recently laid out parterre, raised walk, ha-ha, countryside walks and lakes. Opens Sunday 30th June.
This garden is packed with almost 2000 plants. The collection of over 1700 hosta cultivars is one of the largest in England. Hostas are displayed at eye level to give a wonderful tapestry of foliage and colour. Islamic garden, waterfall and stream garden, cottage garden. Talks given to garden clubs. Open for private By Arrangement visits in July.
Benjamin Waddington, the direct ancestor of the current owners, purchased the house and land in 1792. Subsequently he created a series of ponds, cascades and rills which form the backbone of the 15 acre garden as the stream winds its way from its source in the Black Mountains to the River Usk. Opens Friday 5th July.
6 acres both sides of the River Test. Fine display of daffodils, tulips, spring flowering trees and summer bedding. The main garden has herbaceous and annual borders, fruit trees, rose pergola, lavender walk and extensive lawns. An arboretum planted in the 1930s by Sir Harold Hillier contains three ponds, shrubs and specimen trees providing interest throughout the yr. Opens Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th July.
The main lawn ends in a haha overlooking fields and views stretching to the Malvern Hills. The 5 acre garden was replanted and landscaped 20 yrs ago. Full of mature trees inc Copper Beeches, a Corsican Pine and a pair of Mulberry trees. Long borders lined with espaliered Malus Robusta beside an ornamental pond lead to a Summer House with wild flower meadow and bee hives. Opens Thursday 11th July, pre-booking essential.
Rare opportunity to access nurseryman’s private garden packed with unusual examples of herbaceous perennials and grasses. Informally planted 1 acre garden subdivided by strong structural shaped hedging and surrounding an old cottage (not open). Multiple densely planted borders with new plantings each yr. Pelham Plants nursery forms part of the 2 acre woodland edge site. Opens Thursday 1st and Saturday 3rd August, pre-booking essential.
A colourful garden of great plant variety. Mature trees inc many acers with a wide variety of leaf colour. Early in the season a display of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias and later many perenials, hydrangeas and hibiscus. Ponds, sweeping lawns, roses set on a sunny terrace and much more to see in this extensive garden surrounding a picturesque C16 manor house (not open). Opens Sunday 4th August.
A new garden with a wide range of exotic style planting with canna, ginger and bananas amongst many other plants. Rich in colour, shape, and form, with several ponds with frogs in. This garden is new and still evolving, there’s no grass, replaced with wood chip, filled with good ideas for small gardens. Opens Saturday 17th, Sunday 18th, Saturday 31st August and Sunday 1st September.
The Manor House dates from 1619 and is built on the site of an ancient priory. The gardens have been extensively extended and improved by the present owners over the past 20 years and include a parterre, swimming pool, tennis court, vegetable garden and stable block. Opens Saturday 24th August.
A journey through a horticultural designer’s own garden where plants take centre stage in succession, providing year-round colour and interest. Three rooms, each with a different planting style and purpose: vibrant colours in the jewel’s amphitheatre, leafy textures and pastels in the social room, glasshouse and grow your own productive area. Opens Saturday 7th September.