Time Off - local garden visits Gardens to visit around the Cotswolds during March
Spring is certainly on the way – time to get out and about to see the emerging colour. We advise readers to make contact before embarking on a long journey.
Pear Tree Cottage, Gotherington
Pear Tree Cottage, Gotherington open for one day in March for the NGS
A country garden with a mainly informal air as its name suggests, Pear Tree Cottage is four miles north of Cheltenham, with approximately half an acre that is packed with plants. At this time of year the spring bulbs are particularly lovely, but there is also a pond and a gravel garden,
a wild garden and an orchard leading to greenhouses, herb and vegetable gardens. Grasses and herbaceous borders with summer flowering perennials, trees and shrubs surround the lawns. Open for one day in March for the NGS, owners Mr and Mrs E Manders-Trett also welcome visitors by appointment for private visits between March and June inclusive.
Location: Pear Tree Cottage, Gotherington, Gloucestershire GL52 9EX. Telephone: 01242 674592. Email:
edandmary@talktalk.net Open: Sunday 20th March, 2pm – 5pm. Also as above, by appointment, maximum one coach. Admission: £3.50, children free. Refreshments available, and plants for sale. Dogs on short leads allowed.
Little Malvern Court, Little Malvern
History and a romantic atmosphere make this a special place to visit, particularly in the early spring. Tucked into the side of the Malvern Hills, beside an ancient gabled manor house and an old priory church, it still has its medieval fish ponds, old yew hedges bent into odd shapes and a venerable lime tree. But it also has the sure touch of a top modern designer, as Arabella Lennox-Boyd laid out the gardens in 1982, and since then additional work has been carried out by Michael Balston. Formal areas with pergolas and clipped hedges near the house are softened by the planting schemes, a clipped box hedge set against an equally clipped yew hedge and a lovely
Dial Park owners Olive and David Mason welcome visitors throughout the year by appointment
choisya. A series of small lakes are connected by weirs, with mown grass paths, wild flowers and trees reaching maturity. A rock garden is to be found at the top of the first lake, and a damp gravel bed with naturalised primulas and irises. Ten acres of tranquillity to be discovered if you haven’t visited already – and a garden such as this deserves a return visit.
Arabella Lennox-Boyd laid out the Little Malvern Court gardens in 1982
Location: Little Malvern Court, Little Malvern, near Malvern, Worcestershire WR14 4JN. Mrs T M Berington. Telephone: 01684 892988. Open: Tuesday 29th March, 2pm – 5pm.
Admission: £5, children £1.
Dial Park, Chaddesley Corbett
A garden for all seasons, and although you may have missed the open day for the NGS, on Wednesday 23rd February, owners Olive and David Mason welcome visitors throughout the year by appointment, whether groups or individuals, and
coaches are permitted. In an attractive rural setting in spring, wander round the three quarters of an acre to find the large collection of snowdrops, old varieties of daffodils, primroses and hardy ferns. Many of the wide variety of plants to be seen at Dial Park are rare. There is also a small collection of country tools and bygones to add a bit of extra rustic atmosphere.
Location: Dial Park, Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire DY10 4QB. Telephone: 01562 777451. Email:
olivemason75@btinternet.com
Open for the NGS: Wednesday 23rd February, 11am – 4pm. Admission: £3, children free. Refreshments available, and plants for sale. Limited parking at the garden – park in the village or at the village hall.
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