JENNY RAWORTH GARDEN DAYS 2010
Special visits
for small groups to private gardens
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DAY 7/8
LANCASHIRE/CUMBRIA GARDENS
Tuesday and Wednesday, 6/7th July 2010
DAY 7
Levens Hall
This famous topiary garden is a ‘must’ for anyone who has never visited it before. The enormous topiary specimens have established their own individual characters over the years, leaning and bending like weird, giant chess pieces. Paths lead through ancient and gnarled beech and yew hedge tunnels and the topiary is cleverly under planted with masses of colourful bedding, often using vegetables to great effect.
Yewbarrow House, Grange
Jonathan Denby has completely redesigned this 4- acre steep site overlooking Morecambe Bay, creating a new Mediterranean style garden. Boundary trees, a well- drained soil and an almost frost-free micro climate enables Jonathan to grow bananas, cannas, tree daisies, tree dahlias, echiums and many others. An Italianate flight of steps leads up through the gravel garden to the palm house with a highly sophisticated indoor swimming pool. A Prospect tower gives wonderful views of the whole garden and the bay beyond. A Japanese garden features a ‘hot spring pool’ and a moon viewing platform. There is also a kitchen garden and a maple walk edged with olive trees and vines. Jonathan has great creativity and is always ready to develop new areas in the garden. Jonathan will show us round and give us tea.
DAY 8
GRESGARTH HALL
Arabella Lennox Boyd has won the Gold Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show for the past few years but we think her own garden is one of the best we have ever seen. The house stands in a sheltered wooded valley, and the garden falls away down the terraces to a lake with dramatic waterside planting, with smaller pools and a bog garden edged with moisture-loving plants and a wild flower meadow. This is a garden that really flows – everything works. I loved the herbaceous borders backed by yew hedging with repeat planting, huge perennials and colour combinations to die for! There were terracotta pots on the terrace with very unusual plants and annuals, something to try yourself perhaps. The walled vegetable garden is a special space all of its own and has the best of potager design ideas. A woodland garden, with flowering shrubs and trees, is accessed across a Chinese bridge over the river with a plunging cascade that disappears down the valley behind the house. This garden has so many different areas beautifully maintained by the team of gardeners. Make the trip – you won’t be disappointed!
LUNCH at Inn at Wray
Meet - 12.30pm for buffet lunch at Grange Hotel, Grange Oversands.
Transport: By coach from hotel departing at 2.00pm on 6th July
Finish: After lunch on Wednesday at approx.3.00pm
Cost: £130ph to include Buffet lunch at Grange Hotel on Tuesday, coach travel, garden entries and lunch on Wednesday. (See notes).