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Garden Name: Bide-a-Wee-Cottage
Last Modified: 18/01/2010
Garden ID: 0123

pic: 0123_bideawee.jpg

Owner: Mark Robson
Address:
Stanton
Netherwitton
Morpeth
Postcode: NE65 8PR
County: Northumberland

tel: 01670 772238
fax: 01670 772238
website: www.bideawee.co.uk
email: info {at} bideawee.co.uk

Features: 
Nursery specialising in unusual perennials, ferns and grasses, all tried and tested in the garden.

English Heritage Grade:


Opening Times:
April 17th - End of August; Wednesday and Saturday only; 1.30 - 5pm

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
Late June

To see: 
Himalayan lilies (Cardiocrinum giganteum) in flower

National Collection: 
Centaurea

National Garden Scheme days: Yes
Comments: 17th Apr, 1.30-4.30pm

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: Group visits are very welcomed outside the regular opening times, although closed on Sundays

Viewing by Appointment: No
Comments: Welcomed, but by appointment, though not on Sundays. 

House Open for Viewing: No
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
£2.50
Free to RHS members on production of card for regular opening times only
Group visits for 20+ people - min. fee £90

Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Shop: No
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: No
Teas: No
Refreshments: No
Picnics: No
Dogs allowed: No
Only on Lead: No
Events: No

Other Facilities:
Guide dogs only. Partial access for the disabled.
Doddington Farm Ice cream on sale


Designer: Mark Robson
Description of Garden:
The garden is set within Northumberland countryside, on an exposed hillside above the Font Valley. The 2 acre garden features large drifts of unusual perennials, grasses and ferns, with the majority of the garden planted informally. Paths and steps meander through natural rock and dry stone walls. A pond and small stream form the focus of the quarry; the damp margins are planted with bog plants and primula. The cool humid atmosphere on the North bank of the quarry provides a home to Cardiocrinum, the Giant Himalayan Lily. The garden also features a large collection of Centaurea all distributed within the matrix of planting.

Adjacent to the garden is a half-acre wild flower meadow that is also home to the beehives. As you enter the garden there is a small nursery selling plants that are propagated from tried and tested stock in the garden. The garden has been featured in television programmes including Gardeners' World, with major articles appearing in horticultural magazines, the Royal Horticultural Society Journal (Vol.120, part 7) and The Gardeners World Magazine.


History: 
A developing project, originally created out of a small disused sandstone quarry 20 years ago .

Local Inns: 
Beresford Arms, Whalton

Accomodation: 
Pele Cottage, Wingates, Longhorsley
The Haven, Rothbury

Restaurants: 


Village/Town/Sightseeing: