Six very different and interesting gardens displaying a variety of styles and a range of early summer flowers. Bumble Cot is a small courtyard style garden, 64, Main Street is planted to encourage wildlife with views to open countryside with a variety of trees. Woodmill is a recently redeveloped garden with areas planted in both traditional and modern styles. Drovers Barn is a large country garden with beautiful views of the surrounding landscape and Home Farm is an informal, family garden with a beautiful spring woodland of 1½ acres, planted in 2000. Opens Sunday 1st June.
4 acre country house garden; fine trees and shrubs with wide herbaceous borders and sweeping striped lawn. Good display of bulbs in spring, roses June and July. Walled grey garden; nepeta walk arched with roses, parterre with box and roses. Mediterranean garden. Heated greenhouse, potager with topiary, water feature garden and sculptures. Opens every Wednesday in June.
Approx ½ acre divided into garden rooms with formal and informal planting plus specimen trees. Inc formal white garden, rose garden, sunken Italian garden, rose and wisteria pergola and laburnum arch, Edwardian conservatory, terracotta garden and well garden with raised beds. Sept opening to view garden lit up at night. Opens Sunday 1st June.
The mature 70’x15′ town garden is divided into rooms and bisected by a pond with a bridge. It is brimming with unusual hardy perennials, inc collections of ferns and hostas. David Austin roses chosen for their scent feature throughout, inc a 30′ rose arch. A shade house with unusual hardy plants and a Hosta Theatre. Regular changes to planting. Opens Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th June.
Nevill Holt Hall dates from the C13. Spacious and well proportioned, 10 acres of gardens are designed by Chelsea gold medal winner Rupert Golby. Highlights inc 3 distinctive walled gardens and generous herbaceous borders showing off an ancient Cedar of Lebanon. Nevill Holt Festival is a month long programme of exceptional events featuring world class musicians, performers, and speakers. Opens Thursday 12th, Friday 13th, Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th June.
The garden surrounds the Georgian Old Rectory. It contains many species of trees, ranging in age from centuries-old to very young saplings. In June the roses are at their best, we have new hydrangeas. Hostas and the woods around the gravel paths are good throughout the season. We have a large (15m diameter) new circular bed, where we removed the rhododendron ponticum. Opens Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th June.
Peaceful garden with places to sit and enjoy the old cottage setting. The garden is over ½ an acre which inc a walled cottage garden, stumpery, potager, fernery and woodland walk. The planting consists of many unusual shrubs and trees and over 90 clematis, climbing roses and colourful herbaceous borders. An ideal garden for plant collectors. Featured in Garden News and Garden Answers. Opens Sunday 15th June.
Lovely views overlooking the Welland Valley, this 2 acre garden has been developed from a sloping brickyard rubbish plot over 37 yrs. There is a kitchen garden, orchard, herbaceous borders filled with roses, perennials and shrubs, paths and many pots, filled with succulents, herbs and colourful annuals. Opens Friday 20th June.
Set within the grounds of the Glenfield Hospital, the Secret Garden is 1 acre in size, hidden behind the walls of a Victorian Walled garden which has been lovingly designed and restored for the benefit of all those who visit it and in consideration of the rich history and heritage of the garden and the wider Leicester Frith site. Opens Saturday 21st June.
Victorian walled garden approx 70’x80′ with traditional cottage garden planting, referred to as higgledy-piggledy because of the random planting. Managed by a group of volunteers with much replanting over the past few years. Garden located in the grounds of a historic museum, (an extra charge applies). A unique garden in the centre of Wigston which still retains an air of peace and tranquillity. Opens Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd June.
⅔ acre beautiful country garden full of colour, formal design, softened by cottage style planting. Modern sculptures. Large herbaceous borders, vegetable plots, pond, greenhouse, shady area, colour-themed borders. Extensive collections in over 300 pots, home to everything from alpines to trees. Trees with attractive bark. Many clematis and roses. Dramatic arched pergola. Constantly changing garden. Opens Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th June.
¾ acre garden re-established by current owner. Beautiful blue cedar trees, specimen tulip tree. Variety of trees, plants and bushes reinstated. Original bog garden and natural pond. Koi pond; glass garden room holds exhibitions and recitals. Vegetable plot. Cowslips and bulbs in springtime. Wide variety of unusual plants, trees and shrubs. Quiet and tranquil oasis. Opens Sunday 29th June.
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