Cotswold Farm

NGS Open Garden – 2:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.

Kathy — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:05:25 +0000

NGS Open Gardens 2:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.

Kathy — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:02:00 +0000

Enjoy a family day out. Walk through this Arts & Crafts garden with the terrace designed by Norman Jewson, Shrub Garden and Bog Garden of colourful primulas. View the Kitchen Garden now individual allotments. Find wild orchids in a field below the house.

Enjoy teas by the W.I. on the lawn, games for the children and a plant stall.

Entrance £ 5 for adults and children go FREE.

Proceeds to NGS & A Rocha.

Kathy — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:27:15 +0000

Cotswold Farmhouse occupies a lovely position overlooking a valley and the view extends to Marlborough Downs. The terraced gardens descend from the big lawn with W.I. Teas, croquet and children’s games, down past the White Border and the Terrace designed by Norman Jewson in the ‘30’s. John Sales and Will Ridpath helped us to re-fill these borders to overflow with colour, textures and scents.

Descending further, the Shrub Garden overflows with roses, trees and bushes. The Step Garden has become a Winter Garden and descends to the Bog Garden where water trickles through a series of ponds and over stones surrounded by primules and water loving plants.

The walled Kitchen Garden is now allotments and full of vegetables grown by six inspired individual gardeners.

A five minute walk through a field leads to Bee Orchids, pyramidal and common spotted orchids flowering among lime loving wild flowers.