Time Off - Local Garden Visits Three Somerset gardens you must visit this summer...
1. Jasmine Cottage Gardens, Clevedon
Just a few hundred feet from the Bristol Channel, Jasmine Cottage’s closely planted garden shows what can be done in often difficult conditions, displaying a feast of colour, form and scent. Although the climate is fairly mild, the winds can be destructive. Yet Mr. and Mrs. M. Redgrave have created a wonderful garden of ‘rooms’ on their one third of an acre plot over the past 20 years, so now there are around 50 varieties of salvias (see Sally Gregson’s ‘Plant
Jasmine Cottage – just a few hundred feet from the Bristol Channel
Profile’ on salvias in this issue), annuals, bulbs, tender perennials and shrubs. Pergolas and fences are festooned with climbers: familiar wisterias, roses and clematis, but also schisandra, solanum, maurandyas and rhodochiton. As well as opening for the NGS, this is an RHS recommended garden.
Location: Jasmine Cottage, 26 Channel Road, Clevedon BS21 7BY.
Open: Thursdays 27th May – 12th August, 11am – 4pm Admission: £2.50, children free. Plants for sale. No dogs. Telephone: 01275 871850.
For directions visit the website
www.bologrew.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Or consult the NGS Yellow Book or their website
www.ngs.org.uk
2. Church Farm House, Binegar near Wells
Church Farm House – one of the Daily Telegraph’s ‘50 Small Gardens to Visit’
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From the vantage point of the Green Man’s Throne of living willow look over the walled gardens and prairie patch at Church Farm House situated on top of the Mendips,
owned by Susan and Tony Griffin. One of the Daily Telegraph’s ‘50 Small Gardens to Visit’, the deep perennial borders have been planted in colourist themes, there are many varieties of roses and a new gravel garden which is ‘creeping’ across the farmyard. Gravel forecourt and shallow steps.
Location: Church Farm House, Turners Court Lane, Binegar BA3 4UA. Open during the rest of the season on Sundays 18th July & 15th August, 11am – 5pm. Visitors also welcome by appointment June/July/August.
Admission: £3, children free. Telephone: 01749 841628. Website:
www.beanacrebarn.co.uk Or consult the NGS Yellow Book or website,
www.ngs.org.uk
3. Ford Lodge, near Wiveliscombe
The former home of Lord Baden Powell’s daughter, the garden at Ford Lodge will be open on Sunday 11th July for WACIA, Women and Children in Africa. A pretty country garden surrounds the Georgian house, with rose beds, mixed herbaceous and perennials borders, a lavender border, stream and pond, and walled kitchen garden. In the woodland find the oak planted by Olave, Lady Baden-Powell DBE, who was the World Chief Guide. Her daughter, the Hon. Mrs. Betty Clay
Ford Lodge, near Wiveliscombe former home of Lord Baden Powell’s daughter
CBE, lived at Ford Lodge for 35 years. The current owners, Jane and Raoul Hewitt arrived in 2003. Jane, who is a Guider, is raising funds specifically for projects in Zambia and Uganda.
Location: Ford Lodge, Ford, near Wiveliscombe TA4 2RH. Open: Sunday 11th July, 2pm – 5.30pm.
Admission: £3, children free. Cream teas, plant sales by Elworthy Cottage Plants, raffle, children’s activities, African crafts & artwork on sale. Drop-off facility for disabled visitors, parking on-site and nearby.
Telephone: 01984 623547
Or email jane.hewitt@ukonline
.co.uk and visit the WACIA website at
www.wacia.org.uk
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