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Garden Name: Garden Cottage
Last Modified: 26/01/2011
Garden ID: 0572

pic: 0572_GardenCottage.jpg

Owner: Heather Russell
Address:
Bolam
Morpeth

Postcode: NE61 3UA
County: Northumberland

tel: 01161 881 660
fax: 
website: www.gardencottagebolam.com
email: heather {at} bolamhall.demon.co.uk

Features: 


English Heritage Grade:


Opening Times:
May - Sept; by appointment.

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
end June - July
July - Sept

To see: 
Herbaceous plantings
Viticella and herbaceous clematis and grasses

National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: Yes
Comments: 13th July; Sun; 2pm - 6pm

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: By appointment.

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments: By appointment 

House Open for Viewing: No
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
£3.50; Child free
£4.50 for guided tour with Heather

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

Other Facilities:
Teas, Light refreshments and picnics by arrangement.
Access to garden via easy 400m. field track - walk or drive - But not for coaches.


Designer: Heather and John Russell
Description of Garden:
Set in beautiful, rural Northumberland the 1 1/2 acre garden, with a sheltering early 19th century brick wall has been developed from scratch by Heather and John Russell over the last 25 years. 
Heather has created a rich pattern of plant tapestries and garden features each with a character and mood of their own but which blend seamlessly into one another. The space here has been used most inventively and it is a garden packed with new ideas. Heather has combined passionate plantsmanship with a very strong sense of design in a delightfully contemporary garden. Strong structure provided by clipped trees and bushes and shrubs with gravel areas, naturalistic planting using different grasses and perennials, many unusual. There is a large collection of group three clematis, mostly viticellas, and generously planted, coloured themed borders.


History: 
The main walled area of the garden, was laid out when Bolam Hall was built in the early 19th century, surrounded by parkland. This was derelict when the Russells bought it in 1982.

Local Inns: 
The Beresford, Whalton

Accomodation: 
Linden Hall Hotel, Longhorsley

Restaurants: 
Cafˇ Lowrey, Darras Hall, Ponteland

Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
Wallington House & Garden - NT
Belsay Hall & Gardens - EH
Herterton House garden
Bide-a-Wee Cottage garden
Stanton Hall Nursery, Stanton
All within 20 mins. drive.