Time Off - Local Garden Visits Three Dorset gardens you must visit this summer...
1. 357 Ringwood Road
Many couples have divided up tasks and garden areas, but not usually as dramatically as in this award winning ‘His and Hers’ garden, where Lyn and Malcolm Ovens have produced two completely contrasting gardens either side of their house. Lyn’s cottage garden in the front is bursting with flowers, clematis, phlox, lilies, roses, monarda and lobelia, encouraging butterflies and bees in abundance. Go through a Moorish doorway
Lyn and Malcolm Ovens have produced two completely contrasting gardens
to the back where Malcolm has created an exotic, Spanish- influenced space full of cannas, oleander, banana, dahlias and bougainvillea. Not surprisingly, it has been featured on BBC’s Gardeners’ World and as one of the Daily Telegraph’s 50 Best Small Gardens, apart from winning the local best front garden prize.
Location: 357 Ringwood Road, Ferndown, Dorset BH22 9AE. On A348. Open: Sun 11th July (11am – 5pm), Wed 28th July (2pm – 5pm) & Sun 15th August (11am – 5pm). Visitors also welcome by appointment late June – end of August. Admission: £2.50, children free. Teas and plants for sale. No dogs. Telephone: 01202 896071. Email:
malcolm@mgovens.freeserve.co.uk Websites:
www.lynandmalc.co.uk or
www.ngs.org.uk
2. Farrs
Furniture designer John Makepeace’s garden at Beaminster, opening this summer for the NGS for the first time
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Furniture designer John Makepeace’s garden at Beaminster, hailed as one of the most inspirational gardens in Dorset, is opening this summer for the NGS for the first time. The large walled garden partly enclosed by historic yew topiary has four distinct
Freda and Tony Holloway’s delightful garden in Wimbourne 3. 38 Canford Bottom
Freda and Tony Holloway’s delightful garden has many features including a well stocked vegetable plot, wildlife pond, scree garden, Japanese garden and a model railway meandering through a miniature landscape. It is a plantsman’s garden packed with perennials and flowering shrubs, giving all year round colour. A host of well grown, unusual plants are for sale and there is ample seating to relax and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and delicious homemade cake.
Location: 38 Canford Bottom, Wimborne BH21 2HD. Open days for the rest of the season for NGS: Saturdays & Sundays 10th & 11th July, and 11th & 12th September, 11am – 4pm. Visitors also welcome by appointment in groups of 10+. Admission: £2.50, children free. Plenty of off-road parking. Partial wheelchair access. Sorry but no dogs. Telephone: 01202 884097. For directions consult the NGS Yellow Book or visit their website:
www.ngs.org.uk
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areas including contemporary grass gardens designed by him in association with Knoll Gardens. There is a delightful potager with a fruit cage of cleft oak, a glasshouse and a retreat built of strawbales. Clipped Phillyrea define the drive with a border of cool colours and contrasting textures. There is a gravel path with alternative access through an orchard.
Location: Farrs, Whitcombe Road, Beaminster DT8 3NB. On B3163. Open for rest of season on Sundays 25th July & 29th August, 11am – 5pm. Admission: £4, children free. No dogs. For directions, see NGS Yellow Book entry or visit the website:
www.ngs.org.uk
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