Garden Guide
You enter the garden through a good sized patio area which holds lots of hanging baskets and pots, including a good selection of fuchsias, annuals and exotics.. | |
Adjoining the patio is an entrance to the conservatory which houses tender exotics. | |
Moving further in to the garden via a couple of shallow steps you walk on to a gravel area with alpines, grasses and sedum. To the right is a two tiered pond, the smaller running into the larger via a waterfall. | |
Behind the pond is planted with astilbe, hostas and ferns. | |
Stepping off the gravel area on to the first circular lawn surrounded by colourful borders that include a variety of perennials, grasses and small shrubs. | |
Proceeding through an archway clothed in climbers to the next lawned area with curving borders and a winding path. | |
If you turn right under a wooden pergola clothed with a Rambling Rose you’ll find the newer part of the garden, created 2010. | |
This comprises of another circular lawn with gravelled prairie style planted border to the left, and colourful perennial borders to the right. | |
This then leads on to the new ornamental vegetable patch, where we grow a variety of produce mixed in with some pretties. | |
Here you’ll also find a couple of Derbyshire Red Cap chickens (Betty and Wilma). | |
This section also houses a busy 16’ x 8’ greenhouse. | |
If you opt not to turn right at the winding path, you’ll come across a tropical/jungle area housing bananas and other large leaved exotics. | |
This area has another path that leads to the corner arbour seat and a small wildlife pond. | |
Walking past this, under a pergola sheathed in an old grapevine you discover a formal circular pond and fountain with another arbour seat. | |
To the left is an area shaded by trees, planted with shade-tolerant plants like hostas, ferns etc. | |
The right, through a small archway leads you a full circle back to the greenhouse and vegetable garden. | |