Hoopers Farm

About Hoopers Farm

The garden has several different areas connected by grass paths. Attention has been given to sight lines and view points. The planting adds softness to the structure and colours are carefully chosen to create a blended tapestry with blues, pinks, whites and purples shifting into the hotter colours: reds, oranges and yellows, across the main island beds. In contrast to the open, flowing part of the garden is a secluded Secret Garden, hedged with lonicera and cotoneaster. This is a space for quiet contemplation. Here the colours are blues and purples but with accents of apricot. White foxgloves tower on each side of the brick path in early summer. From the summer house at the lower end of the garden there is a long view bordered by herbaceous beds looking upwards towards the rose gazebo which, in summer, is draped with Roses Ghislaine de Feligonde, Gloire de Dijon and Treasure Trove. A tennis court which became a sand school was repurposed in 2020 into an exuberent mix of sun loving herbaceous and annual plants with ornamental shrubs, small trees and perennial grasses. This area is at its best in late summer. There is a long brick terrace bordered by a pergola of the white climbing rose City of York near the house where visitors can enjoy tea and cake in the shade of the mature silver birches.

Plant sales by Rapkyns Nursery. Local musicians will entertain in the garden on some of the dates. Regional Finalist, The English Garden Magazine’s The Nation’s Favourite Gardens 2023.