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About 10 Avon Carrow
Avon Carrow is a beautiful, large hunting lodge built in 1896 after the style of an Oxford College. It is now divided into 16 privately owned properties, two of which are opening their own gardens for Avon Dassett Open Gardens – No 10, and East Wing. There is quite a long walk up the drive to enter the gardens.
No 10 is a 60 metre long garden on two levels, designed in 2002 by Romy Rawlings, the owner’s daughter. You enter from the bottom of the garden and pass through a series of rooms, defined by hedging. You pass by a cut-leaf red elder and an informal planting of bushes, plants and trees. Other areas include a low parterre of vegetables and soft fruit. As we approach nearer the house prominent red shrubs include a smoke tree and a Physocarpus.
You pass through a gap in yew hedging down steep steps into the area immediately to the rear of the house, which is a conversion from the original stable area. A lawn conveys a sense of space, confirmed by gentle planting which includes lady’s mantle. Roses grow against the wall, and in one corner is a small seating area with a bank of pots of varied colourful plants and a clematis providing a splash of colour on the fencing.
Well-placed bird feeders attract a good following, including spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches and quite tame blackbirds.
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