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Woodpeckers tel: 01789 773416 Area: Warwickshire |
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| Visitor Information | -- email: |
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Woodpeckers |
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| Opening Days and Hours | ||||||
Open throughout the year, but by appointment only. |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes |
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House
Open for Viewing: No |
National
Garden Scheme days: No (All entrance fees go to NGS) |
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Best
Times of Year to Visit: All seasons |
To
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| Admission Prices | ||||||
| (2010 prices) Adult £5; Child free. All fees go to NGS |
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| Onsite Facilities | ||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: No 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: Disabled in wheelchairs need to be accompanied. |
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| Garden Features | ||||||
| Arboretum, colour themed borders, knot garden, pond and bog garden, potager, wild flower meadow and winter border.The garden was featured in the Jan 17th 2008 edition of Country Life. | English Heritage Garden Grade: | |||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Drs. Andy & Lallie Cox |
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| Woodpeckers is a country garden of 2.5 acres in a small hamlet with views over the surrounding pastures. Field hedges have been removed to make the most of this borrowed landscape. The garden is of interest throughout the year. A mixed border is devoted to plants that look their best in the winter and trees with coloured bark have been chosen for their colour at this time of year. A meadow garden provides excitement in spring followed by an explosion of flowers in the colour-themed borders in summer. Old roses and many clematis are a feature at this time. The garden is largely informal, but a knot garden and a potager with unusual vegetables and old varieties of apple, fit happily into the scene. Two timber framed buildings of green oak afford good viewing points in the garden and are themselves works of art. |
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| History of Garden | ||||||
| The owners, Dr. Lallie Cox, built a house with her husband, Andy, here in 1965 and have created and maintained the garden unaided. There was no masterplan - it just evolved. The aim was to create a garden in sympathy with the surrounding countryside. Fashion in plants and design are always changing. You will see the influence of historic gardens and modern plantsman gardening here. | ||||||
| Nearby Warwickshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | ||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Glebe Farm House, Bidford-upon-Avon Monk's Barn Farm Loxley Farm |
Restaurants: "The Bridge", Stratford-upon-Avon |
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| Inns & Pubs: The King Arms, Cleeve Prior Blue Boar, Temple Grafton The Bell, Wixford The Cottage of Content |
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