Woodpeckers

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The Bank, Marlcliff, Bidford-on-Avon,
Warwickshire, B50 4NT

01789 773416

Listed By

William Donelson

0000-00-00 00:00:00


Opening Days and Hours
Dates/days/times open:

Please check with garden owners or their website to confirm current dates open Open throughout the year, but by appointment only.

Parties/Coaches: Yes
Group Appointment: Yes
House Open for Viewing: No
National Garden Scheme days: No

(All entrance fees go to NGS)

Best Times of Year to Visit:

All seasons

To see:

Adult £5; Child free. All fees go to NGS

Admission Prices
Onsite Facilities
Parking: Yes
Shop: No
Teas: No
Dogs Allowed: No
Lavatories: No
Plants for Sale: Yes
Refreshment: Yes
On Lead only: No
Disabled Access: Yes
Lunches: No
Picnics: Yes
Special Events: No
Other Facilities & Comments:

Disabled in wheelchairs need to be accompanied.

Garden Features & Events

Arboretum, colour themed borders, knot garden, pond and bog garden, potager, wild flower meadow and winter border.The garden was featured in the Jan 17th 2008 edition of Country Life.

English Heritage/Visit Scotland Garden Grade:
National Collection:
Nearby Cambridgeshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities


Hotels & Accommodation:

Glebe Farm House, Bidford-upon-Avon Monk's Barn Farm Loxley Farm

Restaurants:

The Bridge, Stratford-upon-Avon

Inns & Pubs:

The King Arms, Cleeve Prior Blue Boar, Temple Grafton The Bell, Wixford The Cottage of Content

Villages / Towns / Sightseeing:
Description of Garden

Woodpeckers is a country garden of 2.5 acres in a small hamlet with views over the surrounding pastures. Field hedges have been removed to make the most of this borrowed landscape. The garden is of interest throughout the year. A mixed border is devoted to plants that look their best in the winter and trees with coloured bark have been chosen for their colour at this time of year.

A meadow garden provides excitement in spring followed by an explosion of flowers in the colour-themed borders in summer. Old roses and many clematis are a feature at this time. The garden is largely informal, but a knot garden and a potager with unusual vegetables and old varieties of apple, fit happily into the scene. Two timber framed buildings of green oak afford good viewing points in the garden and are themselves works of art.

History Of Garden

The owners, Dr. Lallie Cox, built a house with her husband, Andy, here in 1965 and have created and maintained the garden unaided. There was no masterplan - it just evolved. The aim was to create a garden in sympathy with the surrounding countryside. Fashion in plants and design are always changing. You will see the influence of historic gardens and modern plantsman gardening here.

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