Evening Openings Thurs 14, 21, 28 June (5-8.30)
67-69 High Street Finedon, NN9 5JN
Constantly evolving, 1/3-acre rear garden of C17 cottage (not open). Mixed borders, many obelisks and containers, kitchen garden and herb bed, rope border. Summer borders rose/clematis pergolas; All giving varied interest from Feb through to Oct
Plant surgery by local expert. Bring along your plants or questions
Opening dates and times: Evening Openings Thurs 14, 21, 28 June (5-8.30)
Admission:Adm £3.50, chd free
Facilities: Disabled access, plants for sale
Refreshments:Light refreshments
Postcode:NN9 5JN :6m SE Kettering, J A6 & A510.
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Sat 16, Sun 17 June (11-6)
Flore Gardens, Flore, Northamptonshire, NN7 4LQ
Description:Flore gardens have been open for many years as part of the Flore Flower Festival and the partnership with the NGS started in 1992. Flore is an attractive village with views over the upper Nene valley, a C12 Church and Victorian Chapel which are open in June with floral displays. We have a mix of gardens that provide interest throughout the yr and a selection of garden buildings, structures and seating providing opportunities to rest while admiring the gardens. There is planting that tolerates shade and areas for full sun. The June gardens incl formal and informal designs with lots of roses, clematis and many varieties of trees, shrubs, perennials, fruit, vegetables and herbs
Gardens open in association with Flore Flower Festival
Admission:Combined adm £5 June & July, chd free (share to Flore Flower Festival)
Gardens in this group:
20 Brockhall Road Sat 16, Sun 17 June (11-6)
24 Bliss Lane Open all dates
Bliss Lane Nursery Open all dates
Russell House Open all dates
The Croft Open all dates
The Garden House Sat 16, Sun 17 June (11-6)
The Old Bakery Open all dates
Facilities: Teas and plants for sale
Refreshments:Home-made teas & lunches at Church & Chapel School Room (June/July
Location:7m W of Northampton. 2m W of J16 M1.
5m E of Daventry on A45. Garden map provided at official free car park
The Maltings, 10 The Green, Clipston, Northamptonshire, LE16 9RS
Opening dates and times:Sat 16 June; Sun 17 June; (11-6)
Description: This sloping ¾-garden is now a plantsman’s haven. Purchased by the present owners in December 1996 the garden was mostly a boggy lawn with some good specimen trees. Building stables at the top of the hill necessitated a driveway being taken through the middle of the garden meaning a complete change. Shrubs were planted around the perimeter first, then came the productive area which has grown more extensive each year. Now two raised beds contain a variety of vegetables, with a greenhouse also for vegetables and two marvellous peach trees. Outside is a large variety of fruit trees and bushes. The perimeter was cleared to make a wild garden reached by steps and a bark path. Then came two ponds connected by a running stream followed by a change in the boggy lawn to form a bog garden with a large variety of cornus and salix amongst other unusual plants and shrubs. The other side of the drive looked dull and had a bad lawn so poles linked by heavy ropes were added for climbing roses behind which there is now a winding grass path through three shrubberies planted with unusual shrubs and perennials. There are now more than sixty different clematis and twenty different species roses in the garden. Also many unusual plants & shrubs, old and new trees together with a spring bulb area and a sunny patio and herb garden. There is plenty of seating areas to enjoy the homemade cakes, scones and teas served on our open days
Admission:Adm £3, chd free
Facilities: Partial Disabled access, teas
Home-made & cream teas
Location:4m S of Market Harborough, 9m W of Kettering, 10m N Northampton.
From A14 take junction 2, A508 N. After 2m turn L for Clipston. 2 houses away from Old Red Lion
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Opening Sat 16 June
Titchmarsh House, Chapel Street, Titchmarsh, NN14 3DA
Facilities: Disabled access, Home-made teas & Village Fete on 16 June
Description:4½-acres extended and laid out since 1972. Cherries, magnolias, herbaceous, irises, shrub roses, range of unusual shrubs, walled borders and ornamental vegetable garden
Location:2m N of Thrapston. 6m S of Oundle. Exit A14 at A605 J, Titchmarsh signed as turning to E
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Open Sunday June 17
Foxtail Lilly, 41 South Road, Oundle, PE8 4BP
Open 11am-6pm June 17
Description:A cottage garden where perennials and grasses are grouped creatively together amongst gravel paths, complementing one another to create a natural look. Some unusual plants and quirky oddities create a different and colourful informal garden. Lots of flowers for cutting, shop in barn. New meadow pasture turned into new cutting garden
Admission:Adm £4, chd free
Facilities: Teas and plants for sale, dogs welcome
Location:1m town centre.
From A605 at Barnwell Xrds take Barnwell Rd, 1st R to South Rd
click here for a map
Website:www.foxtail-lilly.co.uk
The Old Rectory, Sudborough, NN14 3BX
Open 2pm-6pm June 17
Description:Classic 3-acre country garden with extensive herbaceous borders of unusual plants. Magnolias and cornus in spring, containers of bulbs and large plantings of tulips and daffodils, early rare hellebores. Formal rose circle and box edged potager designed by Rosemary Verey, woodland walk and pond alongside Harpers Brook
Admission:Adm £5, chd free
Facilities: Disabled access, teas, plants for sale
Location:8m NE of Kettering.
Exit 12 off A14. Village just off A6116 between Thrapston & Brigstock
Website:www.oldrectorygardens.co.uk
Weedon Lois & Weston Gardens, NN12 8PJ
Sun 17 June (2-5.30)
Description:Two adjacent villages in S Northants with a handsome medieval church in Weedon Lois. The extension churchyard contains the graves of the poets Dame Edith Sitwell and her brother Sacheveral who lived in Weston Hall. Weston has some fine stone houses incl Armada House, Weston Hall and a cluster of village centre farmhouses. Large beautiful garden with magnificent trees, a plantsmans garden, newly designed award winning garden and a charming cottage garden
Admission:Combined adm £4.50, chd free
Gardens in this group:
Home Close
Lois Weedon House
Old Barn
Ridgeway Cottage
The Wilde House Garden
Facilities: Disabled access, at The Wilde House Garden, Ridgeway Cottage & Lois Weedon House only. Dogs welcome, Cream teas at Weston Community Centre
Location:7m W of Towcester. 7m N of Blackley.
Off A43
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Friday June 22
Canons Ashby House, Cannons Ashby, Daventry, NN11 3SD
For NGS: Fri 22 June (11-5)
Description:Home of the Dryden family since C16. C18 London and Wise style garden enclosed by walls with fine topiary, paths and terraces. The garden has been restored using Sir Henry Drydens 1880 plans and features a fernery, reinstated beds and borders, seasonally planted to reflect Sir Henry’s Victorian tastes. Created by Edward Dryden from 1710 – 1717, the gardens at Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire are a rare surviving example of early 18th century garden design having. since defied the changes in taste which saw many contemporary gardens substantially altered. The London and Wise style design of descending terraces and axial paths, enclosed by stone walls and ornamented with fine topiary, still remains .Following a period of neglect during the 2oth century the house and gardens were acquired by the National Trust in the 1980s. Although much work was undertaken to restore the gardens to an acceptable standard of presentation, resources were limited and the more labour-intensive features of the garden were dispensed with.However, the garden is once again in a state of change since the commencement in 2008 of a four year restoration program aiming to reinstate the elaborate, decorative planting schemes present during the gardens’ Victorian heyday. Work has so far concentrated on recreating the bedding schemes once present on the top terraces, and the next stage of the project will be to replant soft fruit and decorative vegetables on the lower terraces in order to reveal the view currently obscured by inappropriate planting.
Admission:Adm £3.60, chd £2.05
Facilities: Disabled access, teas, plants for sale
Contact:National Trust, Telephone: 01327 861900
Location:12m NE of Banbury, 9m S of Daventry.
On unclassified rd between B4525 and A5. Follow NT signs
click here for a map
Website:www.nationaltrust.org.uk
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Evening Opening, Sat 23 June (7-10); and Sun 24 June (2-6)
West Haddon Gardens, NN6 7AP
Description:Traditional village with a mix of houses, many of which are listed, mainly brick but some local stone and thatch, with ages varying from C16 to modern. A few shops, 3 public houses, 2 with restaurants, school, village hall, church and chapel. An interesting mix of larger and smaller gardens, a large walled garden with rockeries, shrubbery, rose garden, herbaceous border, croquet lawn, courtyard with tubs, many ornaments, and mature trees. Two sheltered walled cottage gardens with terraces, decking, various levels, water features and a wide range of shrubs, a large very well stocked walled garden with many separate areas and features, a range of interesting ornaments, seating areas and vistas. A public house courtyard with C16 outbuildings, hanging baskets and window boxes, a small low maintenance garden with decking, pots and shrubs
Live music on Saturday evening
Admission:Combined adm £4, chd free
Gardens in this group:
16 Field Close
Clover Cottage
Lime House
The Crown Courtyard
The Mews
Weslyan Cottage
Facilities: Teas, dogs welcome, disabled access
Location:10m NW of Northampton. Off A428 between Rugby & Northampton, 4m E of M1 J18. Village now bypassed. Tickets and maps at all gardens
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Sunday June 24
Aynho Gardens, Banbury, OX17 3BG
Sun 24 June (2-5.30)
Description:The village is an ancient settlement with a Stately home – Aynhoe Park – opening its gardens. This is a Grade I listed C17 Country House with grounds laid out by Capability Brown currently undergoing restoration. The house is in private ownership and this is a rare opportunity to visit. Other houses are Grade II listed and some have views over open countryside. The gardens vary in size and style with a mixture of romantic, cottage and formal
Admission: Combined adm £5, chd free
Gardens in this group:
Alms Cottages
Aynhoe Park
Friar’s Well
Old Dairy Cottage
Swallows House
The Grammar House
Yew Tree Cottage
Facilities: Teas. Dogs welcome
Location:
6m SE of Banbury on B4100
Cedar Farm, Copelands Road, Desborough, NN14 2QD
Sun 24 June (2-6)
Description:3-acre garden plus 7 acre beautiful walks through an arboretum containing many unusual trees leading to wildlife ponds, new avenue of quercus coccinea, vegetable garden, a mature avenue of lime trees, garden underplanted with spring bulbs, great autumn colour. Main garden large colour planted borders, Secret Garden with roses and clematis and a large mirror pond, many rare fowl Visitors also welcome by appt
Admission:Adm £3.50, chd free
Facilities: Teas, plants for sale, disabled access
Location:6m N of Kettering, 5m S of Market Harborough, from A6.
Signed from centre of Desborough on NGS open day only
Litchborough Gardens, Litchborough, NN12 8JQ
24 June (2-6)
Admission:Combined adm £4, chd free (share to St Martins Church, Litchborough)
Description:Litchborough Gardens offer a wonderful, diverse selection of gardens varying in size from several acres to the more conventional small back garden. On show is a landscape architects country garden designed for low maintenance, a small family garden featuring a play area with willow tunnel and vegetable patch. Visit a modern cottage garden offering a wonderful display of tulips in the spring and spectacular views over the countryside and a large garden with clip yews, extensive woodland and winding walks through specimen trees and around the lake. Lastly, but most definitely not least, admire the ornamental lakes with rock stream and fountain and the rhododendrons, azaleas and herbaceous borders in this 3 acre landscape garden. A garden for every taste
Gardens in this group:
2 Kiln Lane 24 June (2-6)
41 Towcester Road 24 June (2-6)
51 Towcester Road 24 June (2-6)
Bruyere Court 24 June (2-6)
Orchard House 24 June (2-6)
The Hall Sun 1 Apr (2-6)
Facilities: Teas, plants for sale, disabled access
Location:10m SW of Northampton, nr Towcester.
Please use car park nr village green. Maps provided
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