Visits
All visit will be open for sign up a month before before taking any payment to allow us to check numbers are sufficient to run the visit.
Thursday May 15th 2025, 2pm to 4 pm
Afternoon visit to Bourton House Gardens, Boughton on the Hill
- Members travel by your own transport. 36 to 40 minutes’ drive, 23 to 27 miles
- Bourton on the Hill, Gloucestershire, GL56 9AE
Located on the just outside Moreton in Marsh and a short distance from Battesford Arboretum.
Members travel by your own transport. 36 to 40 minutes’ drive, 23 to 27 miles
Parking is available in the field opposite the Garden entrance – this is free of charge. Please note that visitors park at their own risk.
Bourton House Garden features luxuriant terraces and wide herbaceous borders with stunning plant, texture and colour combinations.
Features include a topiary walk, a White Garden and several spring-fed water features including a raised basket pond from the Great Exhibition of 1851.
You will also find a Shade House, colourful borders with unusual tender perennials and many creatively planted pots.
A raised 18th century walk provides an enticing visual link to the Cotswold landscape beyond.
Visitors to the garden are also invited to enjoy the walk in our seven-acre field (opened to the public in 2013) which meanders through groups of specimen trees planted in 1994/95. A free guide to the trees is available with tickets to the garden.
The gardens have limited disabled access (60% – 70%) due to steps and gravel. Disabled toilet available.
Thursday June 12th 2025
Coach trip to Stockton Bury and Rhodds Farm in Herefordshire
This is a wonderful outing to 2 private gardens situated in the beautiful Herefordshire countryside.
Arrive Stockton Bury near Leominster around 10.30 – 10. 45 when we will have time to explore this 4 acre garden which sits in the heart of a family run working farm. It was created 45 years ago and is home to a medieval pigeon house, kitchen garden, water gardens and well planted borders offering unusual plants and plenty of inspiration throughout the season.
There is a delightful café but we have to confirm numbers of those intending to have lunch on the day. If you prefer to take a packed lunch, this will have to be eaten on the coach as there are no picnics allowed in the gardens. Drinks and snacks can be purchased from the café.
If you would like to purchase lunch from the café, please have a look at the sample menus online on the Stockton Bury Garden website. Choices and payment will be made on the day. We will need to know definite numbers as the owner has to employ extra staff for the day when they have a large party arriving.
There will be plants for sale too.
We shall leave Stockton Bury at 1.45pm and travel a short distance to another hidden gem, Rhodds Farm. We shall be given a brief talk about the garden and refreshments will be included. This is a 2 acre garden with 13 acres of woodland. It was started from scratch in 2005 by the present owner and garden designer. A natural garden where plants are allowed to self seed. There are mixed borders , a pond for wildlife, a formal garden leading to a brick dovecote, a courtyard garden, gravel garden and a wildflower meadow and lots and lots of inspirational planting!
Plants also available for sale.
We will leave this garden around 4.30 pm for our return journey to Snitterfield