If you go to Peckover it's worth going the extra half a mile for Elgood's Brewery garden. Might not be worth too many miles they fit in well for one trip
Spotting new plants is probably the main thing we 'get' from visiting stately homes. We do enjoy the opportunity to wander around large gardens for the exercise and fresh air too.
We actually prefer to visit the Yellow Book gardens as they are more likely to provide practical inspiration and to be a source of new plants. As we are in the process of completely re-doing the garden we can get plants at lower prices than the local garden centre, and find plants not stocked by the GC's too.
Yellow Book can be ordered direct from the ngs artjak but you can get the little county ones free from GCs,Tourist infos, libraries and people that open their gardens.
Next years will be out around February. any early opening snowdrop gardens are in this year's book
Yellow book has a website too, with a handy feature that lets you search for gardens within an x mile radius. Handy if like me you live on the border of 3 counties !
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If you go to Peckover it's worth going the extra half a mile for Elgood's Brewery garden. Might not be worth too many miles they fit in well for one trip
In the sticks near Peterborough
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Big thumbs up for Peckover from me too - its where OH got the inspiration for my obelisks !
Spotting new plants is probably the main thing we 'get' from visiting stately homes. We do enjoy the opportunity to wander around large gardens for the exercise and fresh air too.
We actually prefer to visit the Yellow Book gardens as they are more likely to provide practical inspiration and to be a source of new plants. As we are in the process of completely re-doing the garden we can get plants at lower prices than the local garden centre, and find plants not stocked by the GC's too.
I love visiting gardens and we usually manage to see some each time we go to England and buy plants to take home (France). Earlier this year I started a thread with photos of gardens we have visited. http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/talkback/gardens-we-have-visited-2013/80843.html
Good to hear from you again, Artjak. Wondered where you'd gone.
Kef and Busy-Lizzie, thank you.
KT53, how do you get hold of the 'yellow book'?
http://www.ngs.org.uk/shop-online/order-the-yellow-book.aspx
Yellow Book can be ordered direct from the ngs artjak but you can get the little county ones free from GCs,Tourist infos, libraries and people that open their gardens.
Next years will be out around February. any early opening snowdrop gardens are in this year's book
In the sticks near Peterborough
Nut, thank you, Chicky; I do also; Cambs, Norfolk and Lincs. Which are your 3 counties?
I have Cambs, Northants, Lincs and Norfolk
Leicestershire and Rutland are not far
In the sticks near Peterborough