We have been invited by the Norfolk National Garden Scheme to open the garden to the public in summer 2024. The plan is to do a pop-up opening in June, when the roses and main borders are at their best. The main opening will be the first weekend in September when the dahlias, salvias, gaura, persicaria, modern hydrangeas and sunflowers will be in their prime. The garden has great structure with long beech hedges and topiary.
There will be yellow signs on the roads to direct you to the garden. There is parking at the house and in the village next to the village school. Please see ngs.org.uk/Norfolk for more information. Follow NGS on Instagram and Facebook for up-to-date information.
We intend to serve teas, coffees and cakes in aid of the charities supported by the very worthy charities supported National Garden Scheme which include MacMillan Cancer Support, Parkinsons UK, Marie Curie, Hospice UK, Carers Trust and the Queen’s Nursing Institute.
Visitors will be able to enjoy the main walled garden with its generous borders and the two borders to the side of the house, each side of the terrace. There is a row of yew barrels and behind are pleached White Sorbus.
They will be able to enjoy their cake and tea on the teak table in Pool House garden. This has eight matching beds, three surrounded by box hedging with rosa Sir Paul Smith growing up Tristan May metal obelisks. In these box squares are dahlia Tangerine and tall, dark Chat de Noir.
Beside the tennis court is a semi-circular cutting garden with raised beds jam packed with dahliasincluding George Howard, dahlia Café au Lait, dahlia Karma Choc, dahlia Chat de Noir and many others. We also grown sweet peas and wall flowers.
There is an arboretum with several interesting trees including majestic acer Princeton Gold, three Acer Brilliantissima, a very unsusal oak brought as an acorn from the Pope’s country garden. There is also a beautiful weeping Salix and a Foxglove tree.
There is a long border to the rear of the walled garden filled with hydrangea Annabelle, interspersed with perennial fushias and edged with hostas, perennial geraniums and lady’s mantle. This leads to another long border, to the front of a low brick and flint wall. This is cottage garden in style with hollyhocks, buddleia, dahlias, swathes of perennial geraniums and oxeye daisies.
To mark the opening, we have expanded the white border along the semi-circular wall which is below the gravel garden. It contains rosa Blanc Double de Coubert, Agapanthus Twister which starts blue and turns white, Gaura Whirling Butterflies and white dahlias. Earlier in the season, these borders are full of snow drops, then bluebells, followed by a wonderful show of tall white alliums.
