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Gardens
Mansfield U3A Garden
Visits group arranges a programme of
visits to notable gardens during the warmer months.
GARDEN VISITS PROGRAMME 2012
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I'm always happy to have suggestions so do come
and see us during the
monthly meeting or contact me on 651528 – especially if you know
somewhere else within coach-outing range that you think would be
popular .
Marion.
| Date |
Garden |
Description
(See links below
for details) |
| Saturday 12th May |
Malvern Spring Gardening Show |
The perfect place to start your
gardening year. Monty Don thinks it now ranks with the Chelsea
Flower Show. There is something for everyone. Lots of gardening
features and show entertainment.
Cost £26.50.
Departing from Odeon car park at 7.30 am.
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| Thursday
28th June |
Castle Howard |
Fifteen miles north-west of York,
this is one of England’s
grandest Baroque mansions designed for Charles Howard, 3rd
Earl of Carlisle, by Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor. It is surrounded by
wonderful landscaped gardens and parkland with spectacular views. It
has one of the most extensive collections of old-fashioned roses in
the country.
Cost £21.50.
Departing from Odeon car park at 7.30 am.
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| Friday 6th July – Tuesday 10th July |
Cotswolds Garden Visits Holiday
(See Holidays
Group page for travel and hotel details.)
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Friday: Sudeley Castle
and Gardens on the way down to Gloucester. There has been a
house on this magnificent site with views over the Cotswolds Hills for
over a 1000 years. Explore ten individual gardens set among ancient
buildings. Open 10.30 – 5 pm. Refreshments. Price £6.50
Saturday: Painswick
Rococo Garden.
The Rococo Garden is a fascinating step back to a flamboyant period of
English Garden Design. It was originally laid out in the early 18th
century. 10 acres. Open 11 – 5pm. Coach House Restaurant. Price £5.50.
Some gradients. Explore Painswick village
later during day.
Sunday: Cerney House and
Gardens.
A garden in a sheltered hollow surrounded by beech woods. It was
inspired by Rosemary Verey after a visit to Barnsley House. A garden
full of colour and interest. 10 acres + 40 acres of parkland.Open 10 –
5pm. Refreshments. Price £4. Explore Gloucester
later in the afternoon.
Monday am: Hidcote Manor Garden. National Trust.
One of the most famous gardens in Britain. Lawrence Johnston had a
vision of a wild garden within a formal setting. 10.5 acres. Open 10 -
6pm. 2 hours 20 mins to explore garden. Refreshments. If not a National
Trust member, price £8.50
Then 5 minutes away: Kiftsgate Court
– a series of
interconnecting gardens in 4 acres. They are the creation of three
generations of women gardeners. Open 12 – 6pm. Refreshments. Price £6.
Tuesday: On
the journey home, spend some free time in Stratford-upon-Avon
and visit the Shakespearian Gardens.
NB Amendments above.
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Friday
31st August
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Renishaw
Hall and
Gardens, Derbyshire. |
Sir George Sitwell spent
much of his life in
Italy and this is the style he re-created at Renishaw a hundred years
ago. Explore the Hall, the sheltered gardens to the south – there
are ten gardens in all. There is art, a museum, a national yucca
collection, a vineyard and more.
Cost £30. (A
package that includes coffee on arrival, a guided tour of the House,
entry to the Gardens, lunch, and then afternoon tea.)
Departing from Odeon car park
at 9.30 am.
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| Visit to Dorothy Clive Garden, June 2011 |
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The
Garden Visits Group visited the
Dorothy Clive Garden in North Staffordshire on 10th June. The garden
was created by Colonel Harry Clive in memory of his wife Dorothy.
Pictures by Alan
Miller |
Helpful Links
Upton House - alate 17th-century house with
significant art collections and superb terraced gardens.
Trentham
Estate - the historic Italian Gardens are one of the most
impressive, significant and important garden projects in Europe.
Dorothy
Clive - an intimate and formal garden in North Staffordshire with a
variety of landscape features, including a woodland garden, an alpine
scree and damp garden
Ashwood
Nurseries - internationally famous for hellebores, hardy cyclamen,
lewisias, hepaticas, primula auricula and anemone pavonina
Great
Dixter - This famed garden was created by the late Christopher
Lloyd and reflects his varied tastes. It is often featured in TV
gardening programmes.
Pashley
Manor - a quintessential English garden blending romantic
landscaping, imaginative plantings and fine old trees, fountains,
springs and large ponds.
Sheffield Park - noted for a magnificent
'Capability' Brown landscaped garden with waterfalls, cascades, four
large lakes and a profusion of colour all year.
Wisley
- home to the RHS and one of the great gardens of the world with huge
and diverse plant collections covering fruit, vegetables, alpines and
bulbs as well as herbaceous and woody plants.
Belton House - a good guide to the gardens that
were designed by William Emes, a follower of Capability Brown.
Malvern
Autumn Show - what to see.
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Contact:
Marion Thornton
Phone: 651528
email: Contact us
Meeting venue: Various
When: Various
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