1 Povey's Cottage

About 1 Povey's Cottage

Povey’s Cottage is an old, farm-workers cottage on the former estate of the Duke of Wellington. It is placed in a one and a half-acre garden developed over the last 10 years from pony pasture. This is a ‘cottage garden’, with a mixture of herbaceous beds, a small orchard, and with our bees in mind, a wild-flower area. One of the 2 greenhouses has a section of colourful alpine plants. There is a productive, enclosed fruit cage and vegetable garden. The beehives are in the corner of the garden and there is also a chicken run. In the Spring there are several most attractive wisterias festooning a couple of archways. The highlight of the garden is our natural swimming pool, surrounded by shallow gravel and clay beds, growing a profusion of reeds, water lilies and water plants, which is a magnet for swallows and dragon-flies. There is also an adjacent bog garden, which in the Spring is vibrant with candelabra primulas.

The proceeds from a plant sale will go to Children with Cancer UK and refreshment sales to NGS. The sale of Sheila’s home made pottery will go to the charity ‘Save our Spaniels’

In dry weather the garden is mostly wheelchair friendly, across flat, grassed areas, but with no hard pathways. Sorry, but no dogs.
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Plants and home-made bee pottery for sale.