Botanical Bounty
Full Day Tour
Key features: A full day tour with three rural and two urban settings, one of which is new to Garden Marlborough. From grandly scaled landscapes to the intimately proportioned contemporary potager, enjoy sweeping vistas, hidden surprises, and a sense of elegant, sculpted drama. This is an entertaining tour of diverse garden styles to explore. A delicious lunch is provided.
Building on original plantings developed since 1935, significant mature trees, flowers and birdsong now combine to create a lovely atmosphere in this traditional garden, with vegetables and fruit trees supplying the family. Be sure to visit the garden plant stall for craft, jams, chutneys and Christmas decorations in the Cottage.
This professionally designed urban garden showcases traditional concepts delivered with modern, creative flair. Integral to this entertainer’s dream garden are both highly productive and decorative elements. Whimsical sculpture is interspersed amongst plentiful vegetable gardens, with foraging chooks, walnut and quince trees.
Designed and created by the very stylish Pat from bare farmland, Westgrove is a mature home garden and vineyard, and a property that keeps on impressing all who visit. Timeless changes and additions over the years include stunning cloud pruning and an elegant formal courtyard.
An arched entranceway frames a pathway lined with blue pots and agapanthus, leading to the ‘Wedding Area’, bordered with liquidambars, camellias, buxus and red roses. Spring sees the garden awash with colour including wisteria, flowering cherries and bulbs, then irises, azaleas, rhododendrons and clematis, followed by summer blooms of roses, hydrangeas and dahlias.
Italy inspired this grandly formal garden, with its statues and fountains, Corinthian columns reminiscent of Tivoli, and extraordinary stone pieces rescued from Christchurch’s Catholic Basilica. Brick walls and hornbeam hedges create garden rooms, featuring old fashioned roses, citrus, lavender and olives, alongside an English orangery.
