A wildlife friendly, plant lover’s cottage garden with borders generously planted with bulbs, perennials, grasses and shrubs for successional interest for every season. Productive vegetable garden and greenhouses. Many pots and baskets with seasonal annuals and tender perennials, especially salvias. Opens Friday 18th July, pre-booking essential.
A peaceful large woodland garden planted by the owner with rare and unusual flowering trees, shrubs, perennials and loads of bulbs. Shade loving herbaceous plants, kitchen garden and meadow with apiary. Gate leads to old brickyard, now 3 acre mixed deciduous wood: level paths, large fernery planted in a clay pit, acers and an avenue of thousands of daffodils. Lots of seats to enjoy the quiet. Opens Wednesday 16th July, pre-booking essential.
Located on the edge of the Chiltern Hills with long reaching views, these 3 acre gardens surround a C18 Georgian Manor House built for the First Earl of Burlington (not open). Over recent yrs they have been remodelled to inc formal and vegetable gardens, a classic water garden, large greenhouse and more informal areas. There are a variety of mature trees inc a holm oak and yew. Opens Saturday 19th July, pre-booking essential.
Approx an acre of many garden designs inc Japanese, interlinked by gravel paths. A plantsmans garden featuring 155 acers and unusual shrubs. Quirky with interesting features and some narrow paths. Opens Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th July, pre-booking essential.
10 original Edwardian gardens linked to central wild woodland water garden focused on Bin Brook, with small lake at heart of site, giving a feeling of park and informal woodland, while keeping the sense of older more formal gardens beyond. Mature stately trees frame central wide lawn running down to the lake. Much original planting is still intact. More recent planting inc bulbs and commemorative trees. No picnics. Children must be accompanied at all times. Tickets must be booked on line in advance. Please collect guidebook from Porters’ Lodge. Opens from Wednesday 9th July for rest of the month, pre-booking essential.
A ¾ acre garden set on a steep slope designed to sit comfortably within a verdant countryside environment with beautiful scenery and tranquil woodland setting. A garden with lily pond, selection of plants and shrubs inc azaleas, rhododendrons, hydrangeas, and rambling roses set amongst a carpet of bluebells. Seating in appropriate areas to enjoy the panoramic view and flowers. Opens Saturday 19th July, pre-booking essential.
Restored 1¼ acres bordered by mixed woodland and divided into different ‘rooms’. A kitchen garden, mixed and cut flower borders, hydrangea walk, small waterfall, bog garden fed by natural springs, mature rhododendrons, camellias and azaleas, bluebells, adolescent Japanese acers, ornamental and specimen shrubs, and a peaceful woodland glade. Opens Wednesday 16th and 23rd July, pre-booking essential.
11 acre woodland valley garden, forming part of the Grade II* Sharpham House Landscape. The garden contains many rare and unusual trees and shrubs with views over the River Dart AONB and Sharpham. Azaleas, hydrangeas and magnolias are a speciality. A spring rises in the garden under a spectacularly large rhododendron feeding two ponds and a small stream running through a meadow with mown paths. Opens Friday 18th and Sunday 20th July, pre-booking essential.
A beautiful south facing cottage garden in the rural hamlet of Larcombe. In July expect to see an abundance of traditional cottage florals, roses and hydrangea in an undulating garden of about an acre with a stream running through it. Find some peaceful seating areas and enjoy exploring the features of this tranquil space. Walkers and cyclists welcome without pre booking. Opens Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th July, pre-booking essential.
Fairweather’s hold a specialist collection of over 400 agapanthus grown in pots and display beds, inc AGM award-winning agapanthus trialled by the RHS. Patrick Fairweather will give a guided tour of the nursery at 11am with a demonstration of how to get the best from agapanthus and companion planting. Opens Friday 18th and Saturday 19th July, pre-booking essential.
An award-winning exotic garden, subject of a major feature in the RHS The Garden magazine, July 2024. Much developed recently. Dramatic foliage, spiky and lush, dominates, with the focus on palms, cycads, aloes, agaves, dioons, dasylirions, aeoniums, tree ferns, nolinas, bamboos, yuccas, bananas, cacti, puyas and succulents. Trees inc orange, peach, Cussonia spicata and Szechuan pepper. Opens Sunday 20th July, pre-booking essential.
A small but perfectly formed tropical oasis set in South London in this south west facing plot. In what has evolved over a number of yrs from English country garden style to a more exotic paradise, it still retains many elements of a woodland forest with a variety of ferns hidden in its nooks and crannies. Visitors will be drawn to an array of large lush green foliage and bright, bold flowers in this jungle style garden. Opens Saturday 19th July, pre-booking essential.
Richard Hobbs will be taking two guided walks around the recently restored Victorian walled garden with heritage apples and pears on beautifully restored brick walls. There are cutting beds, herbaceous and shrub areas together with a Victorian style glasshouse. There is a newly planted alpine area, a stumpery a range of herbs and some rare and unusual plants. Opens Wednesday 16th July, pre-booking essential.
C2C Grows is a community allotment project run by the charity C2C Social Action. The project offers social and therapeutic horticultural sessions for women referred to the project who may be experiencing poor health and social disadvantage. The project takes place on a triple sized allotment with several polytunnels, a greenhouse, fruit cages, raised beds and a peaceful wildlife area with pond. Opens Sunday 20th July, pre-booking essential.
A private garden and gallery evolved over 20 years designed and planted by its artist owner and reflects her idiosyncratic style, love of co-ordinated colour, enthusiasm for rock placement, and joy in designing extraordinary metalwork. A limited number of tickets have been made available for these two special one-day events kindly hosted by Frieda Hughes. Introductory talk by Frieda on her garden and art followed by tour of garden and gallery. Opens Wednesday 16th July, pre-booking essential.
Large creatively planted gardens featuring a long double border within yew hedging, rockery, shade garden, exotic garden, pot garden, wildflower meadows, and kitchen garden. Emphasis on continuity of interest via imaginative mixed plantings of shrubs, climbers, perennials, bulbs, annuals and self-sowers; plus a varied collection of wisterias trained as shrubs, on trellis work, and on a pergola. Opens Saturday 19th July, pre-booking essential.
A north facing, ¼ acre garden situated at the edge of the city, wedged between tall trees and open agricultural land was redesigned in 2017 to showcase its unique position. The result is a garden of different moods: Annabelle hydrangeas, a fern-packed woodland area, and a 90ft Piet Oudolf inspired prairie border, complemented by a majestic oak, a willow tipi, a pond, and a cut flower border. Opens Thursday 17th July, pre-booking essential.
Gardens of 3½ acres set around 1832 Regency house (not open). The front is formally laid out with topiary, wide lawn, mixed border and contemporary water sculpture. The rear features new and mature trees from C19, herbaceous borders, water garden and stunning uninterrupted views of the North Downs. The Japanese garden with waterfall and pond leads to a large copse, stream, treehouse and stumpery. Opens every Thursday from June to September, pre-booking essential.
This is a new garden, planted in autumn 2023 after finishing a new build on site. We have soft, prairie planting in the front and a rambling, informal cottage garden around the back, with a cutting bed, soft fruit, vegetables and a small natural pond. Stunning views of the South Downs. Opens Thursday 17th July, with Woodlands, pre-booking essential.
With a backdrop of stunning views of the South Downs, the naturalistic style of this beautiful country garden sits perfectly into the surrounding landscape. The rarely opened garden inc a potager, orchard, herb garden, mature trees and shrubs, South African themed border, newly extended large perennial borders, a profusion of grasses and experimental planting in the moist meadows. Opens Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th July, pre-booking essential.
Quiet location at the foot of the South Downs with lovely views and easy access for a walk. East, south and west facing with beautiful herbaceous perennials, alliums, shrubs, roses and grasses set against lawn, gravel and decking. Small pond, and tree owl and glass flower sculptures. Opens Thursday 17th July with The Orchard, pre-booking essential.
Hawthorne Cottage sits in Magdale with views toward Emley Moor in the far distance. There is a small front lawned area with a stream, herb garden and mixed planting of shrubs. The main lawn at the rear of the property is bordered by mixed beds of herbaceous plants and shrubs. The lawn extends into a small orchard on two levels. There is a stream and trough fountain with a number of sculptures by Mick Kirkby-Geddes. Opens Sunday 20th July, pre-boking essential.
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