1 acre, windy garden below fell, round C18 farmhouse and outbuildings. Fine views. Tiny stream, large pond. Herbaceous, gravel, alpine and shade areas, bulbs in grass. Wide range of plants, many unusual. Relaxed planting regime, lively plant combinations. Run on organic lines. Art constructions in and out, local stone used creatively. There may be plants for sale. Opens for By Arrangement visits from 15 May to 28 June for groups of between 5 and 20.
Cottage gardens using a variety of different colour schemes with topiary surround our C17 listed Cumbrian Longhouse. The remaining 4 acres are divided into a water garden with ponds and rewilded areas designed to improve biodiversity, kitchen gardens using companion planting within listed bee bole wall, large polytunnel, wildflower meadows, butterfly borders, cut flower beds and woodland walks. Opens for By Arrangement visits from April to September for groups of 10+.
Nestled in Eskdale, the ¾ acre cottage style garden is on a south-facing slope with 360 panoramic views of the valley. There is a mix of perennial beds and herbaceous borders with many roses and shrubs inc rhododendrons, magnolia and azaleas. There is a summerhouse and a large kitchen garden with a greenhouse. The sloping lawns have an orchard, wildflower borders and a small pond. Opens for By Arrangement visits from 6 June to 29 August for groups of between 10 and 30.
Cottage style, small garden in a village location. Densely planted around a chalet bungalow on sloping, half acre site. Wide range of small trees, shrubs and perennials. Pond, bog garden, rockeries and camomile lawn. Opens for By Arrangement visits from April to September for groups of up to 10.
4 acre garden combining formal areas, shrubberies and woodland, dissected by the River Irt which can be crossed by a suspension bridge. In spring the garden is vibrant with azaleas and rhododendrons, in summer by an impressive collection of colourful hydrangeas. Set in the heart of the Wasdale valley the garden has an unforgettable backdrop of the Screes and the high Lakeland fells. Opens for By Arrangement visits from 15 May to 1 September.
The allotments are managed by Grange Town Council. Opened in 2010, 30 plots are now rented out and offer a wide selection of gardening styles and techniques. The majority of plots grow a mixture of vegetables, fruit trees and flowers. There are a few communal areas where local fruit tree varieties have been donated by plot holders with herbaceous borders and annuals. Opens for By Arrangement visits from May to September.
Four very different gardens hidden down narrow lanes off the road south out of Grange. Off Kents Bank Road, the 3 gardens on Cart Lane all back onto the railway embankment, providing shelter from the wind but also creating a frost pocket. The garden at 21 Cart Lane is a series of rooms designed to create an element of surprise with fruit and vegetables in raised beds. Elder Cottage is an organised riot of fruit trees, vegetables, shrubby perennials and herbaceous plants. Productive and peaceful. Hawthorne Cottage has been redesigned and replanted over the last 2 yrs to create a garden with colour and interest. Up the hill on Carter Rd, Shrublands is a ¾ acre garden situated on a hillside overlooking Morecambe Bay. Opens for By Arrangement visits from May to September.
An established garden in the North Pennines. Situated at over 1000 feet the garden features mountain plants primulas, saxifrages, woodland plants, erythroniums, trilliums and ferns plus a number of roscoeas. The season starts with snowdrops and continues with a wide range of unusual plants. As autumn approaches the garden includes a range of gentians, Japanese saxifrages and roscoea. Opens for By Arrangement visits from 15 March to 18 October for groups of up to 30.
Large, very informal and natural mature garden around an ancient manor house. Intriguing courtyards are full of wild flowers and old roses; the 1683 walled garden is now an orchard. Wildflower lawns and meadows in summer, a bluebell walk through the beginnings of a pinetum with some unusual young specimens, and a field of free-range rare-breed pigs. Opens for By Arrangement visits from 18 May to 9 July.
This 2 acre woodland garden in the tranquil Winster valley has extensive views to the Pennines. The four season garden, restored since 2003, inc expanses of rock planted sympathetically with grasses, unusual trees and shrubs, climaxing for autumn colour. There are native hedges and areas of plant rich meadows. Opens for By Arrangement visits for groups of up to 30.
2 acres of mature, south facing gardens. A good mix of formal and informal planting inc topiary features, herbaceous and shrub borders, wildflower areas, stream leading to a large pond and developing arboretum. Rose garden, rockery, topiary terrace borders, ha-ha. Productive, walled kitchen garden c1862, a wide assortment of fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, cobnuts and herbs. Greenhouse. Opens for By Arrangement visits from 12 January to 11 December for groups of 5+.
This ‘secret’ garden’s richness in herbaceous plants, grasses, shrubs and trees belies the twin challenges of thin topsoil and an acutely sloping site. With grand views across the Lyth valley, steps and pathways carry down to lower-level lawns, streamside summerhouse and wild flowers. Long season of interest with designed elements providing bountiful displays well into late summer. Opens for By Arrangement visits from June to 13 September for groups of up to 25.
Unorthodox organically run garden, the wild and natural alongside provision of owners’ fruit, vegetables and firewood. Idyllic riverside setting, 5 acres to explore inc wooded riverbank with hand-crafted seats. Large vegetable and soft fruit area, following no dig and permaculture principles. Hand tools prevail. Opens for By Arrangement visits all year.
20 yr old garden comprising mainly roses, courtyard, organic vegetable garden ornamental pool and croquet lawn. Wild swimming pool and boules pitch. Opens for By Arrangement visits all year.
A beautiful garden tucked away in a small hamlet. Meandering gravel paths lead around the garden with imaginative, colourful planting and quirky features. Take a look around a productive, organic potager using no-dig methods, wildlife pond, mini spring and summer meadows and sit in the pretty summerhouse. Designed to be beautiful year-round and wildlife friendly. Opens for By Arrangement visits from July to 25 August for groups of between 6 and 15.
More Cornwall than Cumbria, according to Country Life, a colourful 4 acre garden filled with exotic and rare plants, with dramatic views over Morecambe Bay. Outstanding features inc the Orangery, the Japanese garden with infinity pool, the Italian terraces and the restored Victorian kitchen garden. Dahlias, cannas and colourful exotica are a speciality. Opens for By Arrangement visits from May to September for groups of between 10 and 40.
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