Opened in Sept 2018, Horatio’s Garden at the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital is designed by Joe Swift. The fully accessible garden for patients with spinal injuries has been part funded by the NGS. The beautiful space is cleverly designed to bring the sights, sounds and scents of nature into the heart of the NHS. Everything is high quality and carefully designed to bring benefit to patients who often have lengthy stays in hospital. Opens Saturday 6th June.
St Michael’s Convent is home to the Sisters of the Church and the Society of the Precious Blood. The garden is a space for quiet reflection, to gaze upon beauty, and inc a walled garden with vegetables, a labyrinth and pond, a shady woodland dell, and a chapel. Enjoy colourful borders and beds, and mature, majestic trees. Come and see, spend time simply being! Opens Saturday 6th June.
Behind red brick walls lies a ¾ acre garden on four different levels, each with unique planting and atmosphere. The lower lawn with white wisteria arbour and pond; the upper lawn with rose pergola and woodland, pool area with grasses, Victorian kitchen garden, glasshouse, and wild meadow. Opens Sunday 7th June.
The gardens surrounding C17 Liscombe House (not open), revitalised with designer Jinny Blom, blend history with renewal. A walled garden, orchard, restored ponds, and courtyard garden flourish with drought resistant planting, cut flowers, topiary, and a Millennium walk. Fruit and vegetables grow within the grounds, and the historic greenhouse shelters tender plants. Teas served in a C14 chapel. Opens Sunday 7th June.
Six gardens of varying sizes with borders filled with roses, shrubs, and herbaceous plants. There are many different environments inc damp gardens, vegetable plots, wildflower banks, and wildlife areas with lakes and ponds. One of the gardens was once a well loved garden, but had sadly been neglected. It is now in the process of being brought back to life by the new owners. Several gardens also have fabulous views of the Chilterns. Opens Sunday 7th June.
Described by visitors as ‘a real gardener’s garden’. A fairly new 1½ acre garden set around a Grade II listed former brickmaker’s cottage (not open). The garden features borders packed with perennials, a small meadow, and a small orchard, creating a haven for wildlife. As we continue to develop the garden each year, there’s always something new to discover! Opens Sunday 7th June.
This is a garden designer’s own garden at the start of the Chilterns. It features informal planting with a variety of trees, woodland-edge plants, shade borders, shrubs, perennials, and grass borders that blend into pastureland, now restored to a beautiful long-grass meadow. There is a mature cherry orchard, chickens, and a vegetable garden. Opens Sunday 7th June.
10 acres of garden surrounds a C17 Grade I listed manor house (not open). This large and varied garden blends traditional and contemporary styles, featuring pool borders rich in grasses with a green and white theme, walled kitchen and cutting garden with large greenhouse at its heart, box parterre, deep mixed borders, water feature, rose garden, wildflower meadow and many old trees and shrubs. Opens Sunday 7th June.