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About 29 Tyburn Lane
We are a wildlife garden – our tress and shrubs absorb carbon, provide habitat and nesting sites, produce nectar, fruit and nuts for insects, birds and mammals to eat. Our ponds are home for amphibians, invertebrates and birds, breeding sites for dragonflies and damselfies, and a water source for wildlife. Our brush and dead-hedging create nesting sites for birds and other small mammals, potential hunting hiding for the garden foxes, and deadwood habitat for funghi, lichen and invertabrates. Our herb planters and pollinator-friendly planting are a food source for bees and other insects, create an environment where drought-tolerant plants thrive in dry hot summers. Our flowers like echinacea, nepeta and verbena are suitable for such conditions, look nice, and attract pollinators, while our early pollinator plants (crocus, primrose and snowdrops) help feed nectar consuming invertabrates after hibernation. Our composting and mulching corner helps plants and flowers to grow, generates compost and mulch, improves soil health, while mulching with horse or alpaca wastes recycles animal feed.
A lush lawn encircling a mature Rock garden leads onto the Cottage garden, featuring a feast of colours, sizes, and textures, enclosing statuary floral vases, leading to a central water feature. Past the Cottage garden lie the Upper and Middle Pond, connected by a dry river, and each ringing with the sound of dancing water. We propose an anticlockwise tour. To the side of the ponds is the Flower garden, where 36 rose bushes offer a display of colour and varying degrees of fragrance. Past the rose beds lies the S-bed, hosting the splendour of 77 cultivars of Dahlias. Enjoy the far reaching views of Flitwick and Maulden, and the splendour of the meadow beyond the garden. Over the bridge onto the Grove, displaying a collection of ornamental statement trees, where greens blend into reds, and many other shades in between. Inset in the Grove lies the Pinetum, featuring Pine, Fir and Spruce. The Pinetum is a mosaic of snowdrops and bluebells in Winter, and the Lower Pond is a rewilding zone where poppies thrive in Autumn. Do observe the amazing views toward Higham Bury beyond the Lower pond. Turning back towards the house we come to the Orchard, initially passing through a dedicated Peach patch, featuring cultivars of peach and nectarines. To the side of the Orchard lies the Long Border, 120m of vibrant colour with a growing backdrop of violet and purple Wisteria along the fence. We believe that our Long Border may be one of the longest privately-owned long borders in the UK. Do look out for horses, ponies and alpacas beyond the fence in our neighbouring gardens. Along the long border we arrive at the Orchard proper, with Apple, Pear, Plums, Cherry, Walnut and Cherry Plum cultivars, bounded at the northeastern corner by another vibrant floral bed. This leads us into the Kitchen garden, spanning long raised beds, a tomato polytunnel, greenhouse and cold frame. Do look for our potting area, to the side of the Composting zone. Walk between the two cherry plum trees standing like sentinels near the kitchen garden and you arrive back at the Cottage garden leading to the lawns and the Rock garden.
Red foxes, muntjac deer, hares, and rabbits, toads and tadpoles, newts, hedgehogs and varieties of birds are active in this garden. Please do not disturb them.
Our neighbouring gardens host horses and other animals – we kindly ask you not to seek to feed them.
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