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Woodpeckers
The Bank
Marlcliff
Bidford-on-Avon

B50 4NT

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Area: Warwickshire
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Woodpeckers -- Warwickshire
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Woodpeckers
Warwickshire
All details updated* as of: 27/01/2011
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Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids
 Opening Days and Hours

Open throughout the year, but by appointment only.

Parties / Coaches: Yes
Groups / Coaches need Appointment: Yes

House Open for Viewing: No

National Garden Scheme days: No
(All entrance fees go to NGS)
Best Times of Year to Visit:
All seasons
To see:
 Admission Prices
(2010 prices) Adult £5; Child free.
All fees go to NGS
 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
Other Facilities:
Disabled in wheelchairs need to be accompanied.
 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:
National Collection:
 Description of Garden
Designer: Drs. Andy & Lallie Cox
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.
 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
Inns & Pubs:
The King Arms, Cleeve Prior
Blue Boar, Temple Grafton
The Bell, Wixford
The Cottage of Content
Villages / Towns / Sightseeing:
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