Since we took over Greenacres in 1997 we have made extensive changes to the 1 acre garden. The biggest change being the removal of 3 large (at least 25 feet high) leylandii hedges. We have also replaced many grass areas with a variety of trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals as well as some hard landscaping. Due to a significant building project that commenced March 2009 the Pump and Trellis gardens are now a building site! Other changes have been made to some sections of the gardens and some photographs do require updating which will be done once the growing season restarts. If you would like to walk round the garden during your visit please ask and we'll be pleased to show you round. Click on any photograph to enlarge.
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Heather Garden The Heather Garden provides colour all the year round but especially in late winter and early spring when the heather is in full bloom. The heather is interspersed with a variety of grasses that provide both colour and movement. At one end of the garden lavender adds both colour and scent. more |
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Pump Garden The pump garden before the building work! The centre piece of the Pump Garden was (and will be again) an old cast iron hand pump that trickles water into a small circular pond which is itself within a circular gravelled area. This is then surrounded with an array of shrubs and perennials giving all year round cover. The planting includes fuschias, pestemons, geraniums, sweet william, achillea, black-eyed susans, lavender, potentilla, flowering cherry and many more. more |
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Trellis Garden The Trellis Garden backs onto the Pump Garden and is now also a building site. This particular path from the CL to the house is likely to be closed until July. Don't worry...alternatives exist! In spring time colour is provided by wall flowers, tulips, choisa and festucula glauca (blue grass). In summer geraniums provide the main colour backed up by the honeysuckle and clematis on the trellis and hemerocolis on the ground. more |
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Bird Table Garden This garden is separated from both the Pump and Trellis gardens by a dry stone wall and provides the view from our kitchen window. It is dominated by a large mahonia and an equally large wigelia with colour also being provided by a number of arum lillies. |
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The Borders This garden is on the opposite side of the house to the Bird Table Garden and backs onto the Heather Garden. It is backed with shrubs and perennials that again provide colour and form all the year round. Planting includes berberris, holly, delphiniums, red hot pokers, golden rod. |
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Back Lawn The back lawn is the final area of the garden that we will be changing. It is separated from the Orchard by a rustic trellis that has recently been planted with climbing and rambling roses. In the lawn itself is a weeping cherry and an acer that is one of the few survivors from the garden we inherited. |
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Orchard The Orchard contains apple, plum, pear, greengage and walnut trees. This is also our wildflower area and in spring is a mass of cowslips. more |
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Vegetable Garden The Vegetable Garden keeps us provided with fresh fruit and vegetables most of the year and in summer fresh produce is available for sale to our CL visitors. The garden includes a fruit cage stocked with strawberries and raspberries, a polytunnel in which we grow early broad beans, potatoes, strawberries, carrots, lettuce, courgettes and radish. In summer it is used for melons, cucumbers, and peppers. There are also 2 greenhouses used in winter and spring to raise bedding plants and propogate cuttings and in Summer for tomatoes. |
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