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Garden Name: Felley Priory
Last Modified: 31/03/2011
Garden ID: 0075

pic: 0075_felleypriory.jpg

Owner: Michelle Upchurch
Address:
Underwood
Nottinghamshire

Postcode: NG16 5FJ
County: Nottinghamshire

tel: 0776 3189771
fax: 01773 580 440
website: 
email: 

Features: 
Herbaceous borders backed by high yew hedges. Unusual trees and shrubs.

English Heritage Grade:


Opening Times:
All year Tue to Fri 09:00-16.00 in addition every 1st and 3rd Sun Feb- Sep
Snowdrop Weekend -20th Feb. Meet John Stirland of BBC Radio Nottingham for a Question Time on Sun. Includes a Mini Plant Fair. 10:00-16:00. 
Rare Plant Sales - 5th Jun & 2nd Oct

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
April
May, June, July

To see: 
Daffodils
Herbaceous borders, medieval garden.
Topiary, Rose garden with over 90 varieties of old-fashioned roses

National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: Yes
Comments: 17th Apr; 11am - 4pm with Mini-plant Fair

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: 

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments: with £10 deposit per group, (refunded if cancelled more than 14 days before visit) 

House Open for Viewing: No
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
Adult £3; Child free; Over 60s £2.50. Talk and guide map to garden included. Free entry to RHS members all year.

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

Other Facilities:
Plant fairs for NCCPG on 1st Sundays in June & October. Free parking. 
Plant Heritage have brought together specialist nurseries offering quality, choice and unusual plants set against the backdrop of one of Nottinghamshire's loveliest gardens. 
Photography & sketching permitted by arrangement for private use only.
Half a mile from junction 27 of the M1, on the A608


Designer: 
Description of Garden:
Each part of the garden is planted with different plants and shrubs, many of them unusual. The south- and east-facing borders have the slightly tender plants. The pergolas are mainly covered with roses, vines, clematis and honeysuckle, and the knot gardens are full of architectural box. The borders round the walls have a mixture of small trees and shrubs underplanted mostly by hellebores, hostas, digitalis, meconopsis and geraniums. The rose garden is planted with the old fashioned roses among them Bourbons, moss Roses, Damasks, Albus and Chinensis: and in the borders under the old Elizabethan wall are various agapanthus and some tender shrubs, with the roses.


History: 
Felley Priory was founded in 1156 and dissolved by Henry VIII in 1536. Later that century a new smaller house was built, which was added to in 1886. The garden was designed by Mrs. Chaworth-Musters, starting in 1976, when the hedges were planted and the herbaceous borders begun.

Local Inns: 
Black Swan, Idridgehay

Accomodation: 


Restaurants: 


Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
Underwood