New Year, New Gardens!
Nearly 600 new gardens have been added this year from every corner of England and Wales. If you’re looking for some fresh inspiration for your garden then this is the perfect place for you to start! Here are just a few of this year's new gardens...
Mature shrubs, herbaceous planting and inspiring conifers, trees, azaleas,camellias and rhododendrons surround the old gamekeeper’s cottage. There are wonderful views from elevated walkways, plus a riverside walk.
This Victorian walled garden was the home of leading entomologist Eleanor Ormerod. Now rescued from dereliction, it’s a superb fusion of modern and traditional styles, from the original vinery to the contemporary reflecting pool.
This hidden oasis was once home to children’s illustrator Mabel Lucie Attwell. Sit in the shade of this informal and very tranquil half-acre chalk garden and imagine the artist taking inspiration from her children playing among the trees.
The Brown House is the garden of Tim Longville, the well-known garden writer, and Celia Eddy, champion of English quilting. The garden’s quirky style, which blends English favourites with unusual and tender plants, has been described as that of ‘an exotic cottage garden’. Insofar as the planting is ‘designed’ at all, it is simply to create an atmosphere of lush abundance.
Now restored to their former glory, these gardens have been laid out in the style of Capability Brown, with a backdrop of fantastic specimen trees. Heading south down the gardens is an avenue of lime trees which were planted by royal visitors in the 1920s – the most famous are those planted by King George V and Queen Mary, and the Duke and Duchess of York.
Started in 2003 this half acre garden contains unusual trees, shrubs and herbaceous planting. The garden has a pond with terracing, a wildlife pond, several colour-themed gardens plus beds with gravel and planted with grasses. Roses, clematis and uncommon climbers decorate pergolas. Arbour and trellises and vegetable garden. Tender and exotic planting in the gardens ‘Hot Spot’.
Newly created garden set out on different levels incorporating herbaceous borders, natural pond, unusual shrubs and trees, vegetable plots and secluded courtyard. A woodland walk connects to The Manor House, which along with two other gardens open as the Swineshead group of gardens.
