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The Bunker

Blending family playfulness with nature, the garden, overseen by Primrose Potts, offers a developing array of flora. Colourful spring beds, summer flowering and autumn colour borders, hosting emerging annuals, perennials, shrubs, and succulents, alongside a fresh interest in roses. An evolving kitchen garden, wildlife pond, and playful features make this a garden full of joy and imagination.

Owner Info

  • Kim Carne
The Bunker
The Bunker
The Bunker
The Bunker
The Bunker
The Bunker

About The Bunker

This family garden has grown and changed over more than three decades, although time and tide for the gardens nurturing are relatively recent, it is becoming a living storybook shaped by laughter, learning, and love. Visitors are greeted by repurposed train carriages, playful sculptures, and a signpost that points the way into worlds of imagination. Around the pond, literacy gathers as if in conversation, while repurposed objects are given new life as art, encouraging a sense of discovery at every turn. The kitchen garden is new and aims to reflect the values of growing, nurturing, and sharing, with touches of fun and storytelling throughout, inspired by the owners background as an early years specialist.
Now entering its next chapter with the footprints of grandchildren, the garden offers a unique blend of creativity and nature—an enchanting space that delights children and adults alike.
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The Bunker features

Location details

The Bunker,
5 Holdenby Road,
Northampton,
Northamptonshire,
NN6 8DH

The Bunker openings

A group opening is when a number of gardens open together on the same day.

Refreshments Tea, coffee & cake at St Mary's Church. Refreshments in aid of St Mary's Church.
Admission Adult: £9.00
Child: £0.00
Opening times 13:00-17:00

Accessibility

  • Gravel driveway and steps into main garden.
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FAQs

Payment is by cash only. Please get in touch with the owners for more details.

Sorry, there is no available parking for coaches at The Bunker at this time.

Sorry, no dogs are allowed in the garden at this time.

There are no plants for sale for the time being.

Sorry, The Bunker does not yet accommodate wheelchair users.

Yes. The Bunker seeks to offer a sustainable refuge for nearby fauna and wildlife. These sanctuaries host diverse habitats supporting indigenous flora and fauna and nurturing local biodiversity.