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Garden Name: Woodpeckers
Last Modified: 22/10/2009
Garden ID: 0156

pic: 0156_Woodpeckers.jpg

Owner: Mr and Mrs A J Cox
Address:
The Bank
Marlcliff
Bidford-on-Avon
Postcode: B50 4NT
County: Warwickshire

tel: 01789 773416
fax: 
website: 
email: 

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 Grade:


Opening Times:
Open throughout the year, but by appointment only.

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
All seasons

To see: 


National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: No
Comments: (All entrance fees go to NGS)

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: 

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments:  

House Open for Viewing: No
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
Adult £5; Child free.
All fees go to NGS

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

Other Facilities:
Disabled in wheelchairs need to be accompanied.


Designer: Drs. Andy & Lallie Cox
Description of Garden:
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: 
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.

Local Inns: 
The King Arms, Cleeve Prior
Blue Boar, Temple Grafton
The Bell, Wixford
The Cottage of Content

Accomodation: 
Glebe Farm House, Bidford-upon-Avon
Monk's Barn Farm
Loxley Farm

Restaurants: 
"The Bridge", Stratford-upon-Avon

Village/Town/Sightseeing: