Midsummer Garden is designed by Justin Spink for his parents, Anthony and Penny Spink, in 2015. In 2018 Mike and Ann Collins continued designing and planting the garden. Over the road there is a newly planted arboretum and nature reserve established 2019. Opens Friday 6th September.
An impressive 25 acres of gardens and light woodland in an attractive Oxfordshire setting. The centrepiece is a large terraced walled garden created by Tom Stuart-Smith in 2001. Vision has been used to blend the gardens into the countryside. Good early displays of bulbs followed by outstanding herbaceous planting in summer. Formal and informal areas combine to make this a special site inc newly laid arboretum with many ongoing projects. Opens Sunday 8th September.
Several acres of garden, orchard and paddock surround the last gatehouse fragment of the medieval Bampton Castle, partially moated with walled kitchen garden, a productive greenhouse and farmyard with a variety of farm animals. This project begun by Emma Bridgewater and Matthew Rice is 12 years old so now ‘bearing fruit’ but will always be in a state of permanent change. Delicious teas and vintage tractors. Opens Sunday 8th September.
Mill Barn has an informal cottage garden with a variety of flowers throughout the seasons. Rose arches and a pergola lead to a vegetable plot surrounded by a cordon of fruit trees, all set in a mill stream landscape. Opens Wednesday 11th September.
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