The English Garden – September 2019

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VENETIA BARRINGTON; ALAMY; FRED CHOLMELEY; CLIVE NICHOLS; BRETT FARMERY

Wales & The Marches

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ear Leominster in Herefordshire, the

four-acre gardens of Stockton Bury have

developed over 30 years into an acclaimed

garden that includes the original Victorian

kitchen garden, pigeon house, tithe barn and an extensive

collections of plants, many rare and unusual.

Find Nant y Bedd in the Black Mountains near

Abergavenny. The garden here blends wild and tame,

with organic vegetables, a natural swimming pond and

wildflowers hidden within a woodland setting. There’s

also a strong emphasis on eco-friendly gardening.

The garden at Hurdley Hall in Powys surrounds a

timbered 17th-century house and boasts herbaceous and

mixed borders, ponds, topiary and a kitchen garden. Its

setting, adjacent to a nature reserve, includes meadows,

ancient woodland and a newly planted orchard.

Wollerton Old Hall, near Market Drayton in

Shropshire is well-known to many and loved for its

picture-perfect borders with towering delphiniums,

timbered 16th-century house bedecked with climbing

roses and immaculate mirror-like water feature.

In Tregaron, Ceredigion, Ysgoldy’r Cwrt, is a one-

acre hillside garden with sloping ground given over to

wildflower meadow. Four natural ponds and a bog area

extend the planting opportunities; there is also a rose

walk, acer collection and a large collection of irises. ■

Stockton Bury

Hurdley Hall Ysgoldy’r Cwrt

Wollerton Old Hall

Nant y Bedd