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Church View, Appleby-in-Westmorland
 Church View Garden has been re-designed,re-planted and developed by English Country Gardens during the past 4 years. It was open to the public under the National Gardens scheme in 2009 and 2010. Opening again in 2011 Please come and visit: Opening dates and times: Suns 19th June 2011; 11th Sept 2011 (2-5 p.m). ( Also open Sat.18th June 2011; 2-5 pm. in aid of St. Lawrence's Church) Visitors also welcome by appointment.  Contact:
Mrs H Holmes Telephone: 017683 51397 or Ian Huckson e-mail: engcougars@btinternet.com Admission: Adult £3, child free Disability information: Sloping gravel paths in main garden, flat surface to front and side. Postcode: CA16 6UN Southbound on A66 take Appleby slip road, B6542 under railway bridge, pass River Eden on your right and continue up hill to Royal Oak Inn. Garden next door, opposite the Church. * Click here for news article on the n.g.s. site.The open day 20th.June 2010 was well attended. 132 visitors raised £678.00 for the N.G.S. charities* Featured in The Cumberland & Westmorland Herald 19th June 2010. * Next open day 19th June 2011*
 Description: Developed (2007 – 2008) on a sloping site. Roses and some shrubs for structure, but relying heavily on grasses and herbaceous plants to create textures, colour combinations and contrasts in a modern way. Mixed beds at front with ‘woodland corner’. A small self-contained cottage garden to get lost in!
Church view is a garden for all seasons
Bulbs provide some of the colour highlights during Spring. Photo taken 14/05/09 Further details:Although Church View is a fine old sandstone cottage, it has a newly developed garden. Planting was carried out Autumn 2007-Spring 2008. The Front Garden has Roses, Geraniums, and Lavenders amongst other plants, plus a woodland corner with an oriental feel. Also it really does have a view of the Church! The ‘Circle Garden’ at the side has three distinctly different small beds around an old church font base which acts as a ‘roundabout’ to access the remainder of the garden. The main part of the garden is at the back of the property. Taking into account this is a sloping site we have tried to lay out the pathways to give reasonably easy access to the entire garden. The pathways are integral to the way this garden works. As it has little in the way of great outward views, it is necessarily self-contained. The textures, colour harmonies, and contrasts, become evident as one moves around the paths. The intensive planting creates the depth to hold ones attention and gaze within its boundaries. There are Roses and some shrubs, but we rely heavily on herbaceous perennials and grasses to try to achieve this.
Special attention is paid to maintaining a good display of flowering plants well into late Summer/Autumn.
Colour continues well into Autumn: here Aconitum,Aster and Helenium . Photo taken 08/10/09
Interest, colour and texture
Grasses and late perennials.
Agastache,Rudbeckia,and Calamagrostis.
15/10/09
Dahlia Bishop of Llandalff adds hotspots
of rich colour in the wall border
until the first frosts.
17/09/09
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June 2009
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Appleby Garden Open for the NGS: Sunday September 11 th. 2011
The latest NGS private garden opening in Cumbria this year.
The Gardens at Church View, Bongate, Appleby in Westmorland, home of Mrs. Helen Holmes, will be open to the public on Sunday 11th. September 2011.
This will be a chance to see a Cottage Garden in which special attention is paid to providing and maintaining a grand display of flowering plants well into late Summer/Autumn. Hardy herbaceous perennials and ornamental grasses form the core of this array of colour, texture and interest, augmented by a few select half-hardy annuals/perennials. Here we believe the colourful exuberance of late flowering plants to be immensely valuable and the excitement generated to be solace for the soul as the Summer season moves on and the nights begin to draw in. The vibrancy and joy gladdens the heart, and for a time, defies the dreary winter time that lies ahead! Come along and meet the gardener, experience the plants bees and butterflies, enjoy a cup of tea and cake, or maybe relax with a Pimms and luxuriate in a late summer glow!
The National Gardens Scheme (NGS) raises money for charity each year. In 2010,thanks to garden owners and visitors, the NGS was able to make a record annual distribution of £2.6m to its beneficiary charities, which are predominantly in the nursing and caring sector. A news article from the NGS website 2010
CHURCH VIEW Helen moved to Church View 4 years ago and, with pride and respect, says that her Landscape Gardener, Ian Huckson is a very talented and knowledgeable plantsman. Ian has transformed the half-acre garden in just 3 years. Ian said, “It took one year of clearance and hard-landscaping followed by two years of planting and cultivation”. The garden belies its youth in providing fullness, variety and an abundance of floral display. Ian takes particular pride in the design and quality of his plantings. Church View garden provides lovely views from meandering gravel paths as well as from within the house. Helen and Ian have worked together for many years and as Ian says, “we have similar garden tastes, which is great. This garden demonstrates what can be done in a very short time and it does so delightfully. There are lots of plants in flower but evidence of many more to come throughout the summer. Indeed Ian adds,” visit us on 20th June but return when we open on 12th September to enjoy a riot of late summer colour”.
Here is a link to many splendid photos of Church View by photographer Fiona Lea http://www.gapphotos.com/featuredetails.asp?featureref=392 Return to Home page |
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