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Eastgrove Cottage Garden |
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Eastgrove Cottage Garden tel: 01299 896389 Area: Worcestershire |
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| Visitor Information | www.eastgrove.co.uk | ||||||||||||
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| Eastgrove Cottage Garden Worcestershire All details updated* as of: 18/01/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
26th Apr - 14th July; Thurs - Sat; 2pm - 5pm & BH Monday, and Mondays in May |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes By arrangement |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes |
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House
Open for Viewing: No |
National
Garden Scheme days: No |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: End of June |
To
see: Roses, Herbaceous |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| Adult £4; Child free RHS members free on presentation of membership ticket. |
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| Onsite Facilities | |||||||||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
No Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: No |
Teas:
No Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: No |
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| Other
Facilities: Light refreshments include home made ice cream. Picnics are allowed in car park only. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| Peace and tranquillity. Many curving borders with one long herbaceous border and a backcloth of old fruit trees, clematis, and climbing roses. Two raised areas with less usual alpines and small treasures. A secret garden where colour is of great importance. Many plantings where foliage, shape and form are paramount. Spring garden, very unusual pots and containers. Shaded areas, old roses tumbling from trees. Excellent nursery. New 2 acre meadow being planted. Features in "The English Garden" by Ursula Buchan, published in autumn 2006 |
English Heritage Garden Grade: II | ||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Malcolm and Carol Skinner |
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| This perfumed garden surrounds a 17th century half timbered yeoman farmhouse - indeed it wraps it around with beds and borders just bursting with a tumbling abundance of old cottage favourites. Roses, Pinks, Violas, Aquilegias, Iris and Lavender to name but a few. Full of flowing curves, the whole is held together by a meticulously clipped Lonicera nitida hedge. This is the backbone of the flower garden and it leads you into the secret garden, with its carefully chosen colour theme of pink, mauve, silver and burgundy. The artistry of the planting somehow manages to be unpretentious and in no way contrived. A rose tunnel leads to 'The Great Wall of China' where some more unusual rock and alpine plants hold sway. There are short mown paths leading into the small arboretum known as 'The Glade' and thence to the 'The Grove' which blends most beautifully with the surrounding Worcestershire countryside. There is a more sophisticated planting around the splendid 40ft long timber and brick mediaeval barn with many interesting subjects on the west, north and south walls. Several parts of the garden are linked with charming brick paths - at all times using materials to hand. The whole is surrounded by 5 acres of unspoiled meadow and woodland. Eastgrove was used in Geoff Hamilton's Cottage Garden series (BBC TV) and has been featured in many periodicals - Country Life, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Country Living, RHS Journal etc. It is a garden that is visited by people from all over the world and is great source of joy, peace and inspiration for many. |
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| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| Malcolm and Carol Skinner started working in this garden in 1970. Each area has evolved either through the inspiration of this wonderful place or by natural dictates of soil and conditions. Eastgrove Cottage had been open to the public since 1975. | |||||||||||||
| Nearby Worcestershire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Crown & Sandys Arms, Ombersley |
Restaurants: Many good eating places in nearby Ombersley |
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| Inns & Pubs: Witley Court (English Heritage) with light lunches and teas at the 'Villa Fore' by Great Witley Church. |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: City of Worcester, 8 miles |
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