National Gardens Scheme Buckinghamshire

A treat in store this bank holiday Monday! Turn End garden is Grade II registered, with a series of garden rooms, each with a different planting style enveloping architect’s own Grade II* listed house (not open).
There is a dry garden, formal box garden, sunken gardens and mixed borders around a curving lawn, all are framed by ancient walls and mature trees.
You will find bulbs, irises, wisteria, roses, ferns and climbers. There are courtyards with pools, pergolas and a Victorian coach house.
Open 2 - 5 pm on Monday May 6. Admission £6. Children free. Home made teas. PRE BOOKING ESSENTIAL
Turn End, Townside, Haddenham HP17 8BG

This is a view of just one corner of the garden at Abbots House in Winslow, which is opening for the NGS this coming Sunday 28 April - 12 noon to 5 pm. Admission £5. Chd. Free. Home made teas and a very well stocked plant stall. It is a garden on several different levels including a white wisteria arbour, a pond, a rose pergola, a Victorian kitchen garden and a brand new greenhouse. MK18 3AN

There is a treat in store this evening. This beautiful Buckinghamshire garden, The Wind In thé Willows at Upper Denham will be featured on Gardeners World this evening - Friday 26th April 8pm BBC2. Their early spring opening was cancelled due to flooding but hopefully there will be another opportunity to visit it later on. We’ll keep you posted….

Pictures from the charming Overstroud Cottage Garden which will be open for the NGS this coming Sunday 21st April 2 - 5pm. Admission £4. Chd free. Delicious teas served in the parish church next door. HP16 9QE

CANCELLED OPENING
Very sadly the opening of the garden at The Wind In the Willows in Denham this Mother’s Day weekend has had to be cancelled because the river has broken its banks and so it is largely under water as you can see from these pictures.
It is a very special garden and we will notify you if and when it is open for a future visit.

This is an important notification for anyone who might have been thinking of visiting Caversfield House Garden near Bicester on Sunday 25tg February. This opening has had to be CANCELLED due to a waterlogged parking field. We are aware that they are only just across the county border and there might be visitors in bucks who would have wanted to attend this. Caversfield House are hoping to do a pop up
opening later in the year, and I will advertise details of this, with photographs when I have them.

This Sunday the 23rd July we have a lovely garden opening in Hedgerly.
Old Keepers is a recently established, 1½ acre garden combining extensive perennial borders, an orchard, meadow and woodland edge gardens, surrounding a Grade II listed former brickmaker’s cottage (not open).
There are a large selection of roses and you will find an interesting use of rusted metalwork made by British craftsmen throughout the garden. Strategically positioned benches and perching spots will help you to enjoy the view across the garden and village.
Admission £4.50 children free. Home made teas.
Pre booking is essential
SL2 3UY

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/43592/old-keepers

There is a chance to see the charming garden at Montana outside Cholesbury in all its summer glory tomorrow - Wednesday 19th July between 11 and 2 pm.
A peaceful large garden surrounded by trees, and planted with rare and unusual flowering trees, shrubs, perennials underplanted with bulbs. Shade loving plants, kitchen garden and small meadow with apiary. A gate leads to a 3 acre mixed deciduous wood with level paths, a large fernery planted in an old clay pit and an avenue of acers. Lots of seats to enjoy the quiet. Pre - booking is essential.
Admisdion £4. Children free. Pre booking essential. Phone 01494 758347 or email [email protected]
Shire Lane, Cholesbury HP23 6NA

Thé unusual garden at 8 Claremont Road Marlow is just a short walk from the town centre car parks. It’s open from 2 - 5 pm on both Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 July. Admission £5. Children free.
There are paintings, prints and pots to see and buy in this small town garden owned by an artist gardener. The unusual house was built in 2015. Gravel paths divide the rectangular beds filled with herbaceous perennials, grasses and ferns. A cow trough water feature and owner’s ceramics add surprise. A gate leads to a deliberate wild area with fruit trees and art studio with garden related paintings.
Marlow SL7 1 BW

The thoughtfully planted garden at Fressingwood near Great Missenden will offer lots of inspiration to anyone with a new garden, or wanting to enhance an existing one. It is full of interesting features including topiary, herbaceous borders and a shrubbery with ferns grasses and hostas.
Open Sunday July 9 2 - 5.30 pm Admission £4.50 children free. Refreshments
HP16 OEF

This lovely photo is taken in the garden at 18 Copperkins Lane. It’s only a 15 minute walk from Amersham train station. It’s open today (Sunday July 9) from 12 - 5 pm. Admission £4.50. Children free. HP6 5QF
A fabulous compact ½ acre garden with lawn, herbaceous borders, wildflower meadows, orchard, raised vegetable beds, treehouse, summerhouse, and pool. Originally designed as a white garden, it now includes calming purple, blue and pink colours. Plenty of roses, grasses, salvia, nepeta, peony, delphinium, lupin, geranium, foxglove, allium, lavender, astrantia, pittosporum, and ornamental trees. Pre Booking essential

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/44570/18-copperkins-lane

Fressingwood, Hare Lane, Little Kingshill

A thoughtfully designed and structured garden with year-round colour and many interesting features including herbaceous borders, a shrubbery with ferns, hostas, grasses and hellebores. A small formal garden, pergolas with roses and clematis. A variety of topiary and small garden rooms and a central feature incorporating water with grasses. There is a large bonsai collection.

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/14248/fressingwood

Chiltern Forage Farm near Speen is a different kind of NGS opening. This afternoon - Sunday July 2nd they are offering tours at 2.30pm and 4pm of this project under development in attractive hillside setting. The pasture is being restored to hay meadows and planted with fruit trees and soft fruit. You will get tips for foraging, encouraging wild flowers and creation of wildlife habitats. On calm sunny days it is great for spotting butterflies and moths.
Spring Coppice Lane, Speen, Princes Risborough HP27 OSU
Admission £5 children free
Light refreshments

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/37497/chiltern-forage-farm

Thé garden at Wadzana, in Oakley is an inspiration for anyone wanting to develop a new garden. Six years ago the house wasn’t built and the garden was still a lorry park. Since then it has been landscaped into individually themed areas inc herbaceous, silver birch copse, formal, herb, meadow and pergola leading to stumpery. Views over neighbouring fields gives sense of space. Extensive vegetable garden and greenhouse. There is eating for tea and cake near the fountain and water feature. https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/43497/wadzana

There are two garden visits you can make today - Saturday July 1st. Ascott at Wing outside Leighton Buzzard and Little Missenden gardens in the Chilterns.
Ascott House is one of the major Rothschild homes in Buckinghamshire whose wonderfully maintained grounds combine formality with early C20 natural style and recent plantings to lead it into the C21. A completed garden designed by Jacques and Peter Wirtz and also a Richard Long sculpture. Terraced lawns with specimen and ornamental trees, panoramic views to the Chilterns. Naturalised bulbs, mirror image herbaceous borders and impressive topiary inc box and yew sundial. The House is closed on NGS Days. admission £7. Children free.
Pre - booking is essential.
https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/21/ascott

There are no less than 13 gardens to wander through in Little Missenden, a charming Chilterns’ village that has been used frequently for fîlm sets. The gardens reflect the different styles of the houses including several old cottages, converted barns and Elizabethan and Georgian houses (not open). There are herbaceous borders, shrubs, trees, old fashioned roses, hostas, topiary, koi and lily ponds, kitchen gardens, and play areas for children. The River Misbourne runs through some of the gardens.
Tea is available at the beautiful Anglo-Saxon church built in 975 where you can also join a tour of the medieval wall paintings.
Combined admission £8. Children free. Open 2 - 6 pm on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd July.
HP7 ORD
https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/20092/little-missenden-gardens

The delightful garden at Chiltern Haven, Pednor is opening for the NGS for the first time this year. A country garden of over 1½ acres with a wide range of flowering and foliage plants. Bulbs, perennials, roses, shrubs and trees have been chosen to provide continuous interest, with colour concentrated in purple, pink, blue and lemon. The lawns around the house have deep, curving borders with sunny and shady aspects. There is also a wildlife pond, old orchard, small vegetable garden and greenhouse.
Open Saturday June 24, 2 - 5pm Admission £5, chindren free. Home made teas.
HP5 2SX

RobinHill, Stokenchurch
Relaxed designer’s garden at the start of The Chilterns. Informal cottage garden/prairie style with a variety of trees, woodland edge plants, shade borders, shrubs, perennials and grass borders blending into pastureland, now restored to beautiful long grass meadow. Mature cherry orchard, chickens, vegetable garden. Planting constantly evolving to better suit our changing climate, and benefit wildlife.
Open Saturday June 24, 12 - 4pm admission £4.50, children free. Home made teas.
HP14 3XQ

The best garden at Chelse Flower Show this year was won by a garden designed for the Horatio’s Garden charity. Buckinghamshire’s very own Horatio’s Garden within the spinal unit at Stoke Mandeville hospital, was designed by Jo Swift and is open this afternoon. The fully accessible garden for patients with spinal injuries has been part funded by the NGS. The beautiful space is cleverly designed to bring the sights, sounds and scents of nature into the heart of the NHS. Everything is high quality and carefully designed to bring benefit to patients who often have lengthy stays in hospital.
Open Saturday June 24 2 - 5 pm. Admission £5. Children free. Home made teas in the garden room.
HP21 8AL

The wonderful garden at Old Park Barn in Stoke Goldingtton is definitely worth a special expedition. A garden of almost 3 acres made from a rough field over 25 yrs ago. Near the house (not open) a series of terraces cut into the sloping site create the formal garden with long and cross vistas, lawns and deep borders. The aim is to provide interest throughout the yr with naturalistic planting and views borrowed from the surrounding countryside. Beyond is a wildlife pond, meadow and woodland garden.
Open Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th 1.30 - 5 pm Adm £5 children free. Home made teas.
MK16 8NY

Lords Wood, Marlow open Thursday June 15 from 11 -4.30 pm. Admission £5. Children free.
SL7 2QS
‘An outpost of Old Bloomsbury in Marlow Woods’ was how diarist Frances Partridge described Lords Wood.
Here James and Alex Strachey entertained many of the Bloomsbury Group inc Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington.
The 5 acres surrounding the house (not open) showcase sculpture, water features, extensive mature borders, flower and herb gardens, orchard, and woodland walks with spectacular views over the Chilterns.

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/20175/lords-wood

Entering the Getty estate at Wormsley is like stepping into rural heaven. At the heart of this magical estate is the Walled Garden, open for the NGS today from 10 from 10 -3 pm. Admission £7. Children free. It really is an unforgettable experience. HP14 3YE
Entrance by pre- booked ticket only. Get yours now…..

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/30107/the-walled-garden-wormsley

Such a beautiful morning in Bucks and so many gardens to visit this weekend!
Near Aylesbury you can visit Canal Cottage in Buckland, Acer Corner in Wendover and The Lantern Cottage in Aston Clinton. Follow the links below for photos and details of the opening times etc…

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/37498/canal-cottage

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/21066/acer-corner

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/35161/the-lantern-cottage

Long Crendon’s village opening with six gardens to see is also quite nearby.

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/20766/long-crendon-gardens
North of the county , we have the Cowper and Newton museum garden in Olney

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/19049/cowper-newton-museum-gardens

and 126 Church Green Road in Bletchley

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/29903/126-church-green-road

Or if you fancy a garden in the Chilterns Bledlow Manor is opening its 12 acre garden for the NGS this Sunday.

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/5748/bledlow-manor

Time to get planning!

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Another real treat in store tomorrow afternoon is a visit to the gardens at Bledlow Manor.
A twelve acre garden with amongst other things a walled kitchen garden, sculpture garden and a beautiful water garden. Open Sunday June 11, 2 - 5pm Admission £7. Chindren free.
HP27 9PA

One visit to Long Crendon tomorrow afternoon will give you the opportunity to see six very different gardens and to have tea in the beautiful St Mary’s church surrounded by a wonderful exhibition of sustainable church flowers. Open Sunday June 11, 2 - 6 pm Admisdion £6. Children free.

Two gardens in Bucks are open on this wonderful sunny afternoon.
Acer corner in Wendover is a garden designer’s garden with Japanese influence and a large collection of Japanese maples.
Open 2-5pm today and tomorrow.
HP22 6HQ
https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/21066/acer-corner

Also open today and tomorrow, thé delightful garden at the Cowper abd Newton museum in Olney. 11 - 4.30 pm. There will be a whole host of activities to participate in as well as the enjoyment of the garden and teas.
MK46 4AJ

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/19049/cowper-newton-museum-gardens

Find a Garden | National Garden Scheme

It’s the busiest weekend of the year for Bucks NGS coming up! Pretty much wherever you are in the county there will be a garden to enjoy.
For those of you in the north of the county the tranquil C18 flower garden of poet William Cowper will be open from 11 - 4.30 pm on both Saturday and Sunday. £4 admission. Children free. Home made teas and lots of activities both days . GARDEN

If you don’t have cash on you, you will need to pre-book online to visit thé lovely garden at the Plough, Terrick. You will also miss out on the delicious home made teas, as well as jams and apple juice, all made with fruit from thé garden.
It is a formal organic garden with open views to the Chiltern countryside. Designed as a series of outdoor rooms around a listed former C18 inn (not open). There is a parterre, vegetable and fruit gardens, and a newly planted orchard.
Sunday June 4, 1 - 5pm. Admission £5. Children free.
HP17 OTJ

The rambling roses, potager, lily pond and blue and white ribbon border at Overstroud Cottage in Great Missenden will be in their full glory tomorrow. Open Sunday June 4, 2 - 5 pm. Admission £4 children free. Cream teas in the parish church next door.
HP16 9QE

2 days to go!
Garden Open on Sunday 4th June 1-5pm.

Who would believe there could be such delightful green haven so close to London? Denham village is just a few miles beyond the M25 and the White House is a well established 6 acre formal garden in picturesque setting opposite the church. There are mature trees and hedges with the River Misbourne meandering through lawns. You will also find shrubberies, flower beds, a rockery, rose garden and orchard.
There is a large walled garden, herb garden, vegetable plot and Victorian greenhouses.
Open Sunday June 4, 2 - 5pm. Admission £6. Children free. Cream teas.
UB9 5BE