2000 - 2009
Ferndown - Dorset - England 
Hello and Welcome to our Garden.
We hope you enjoy your visit.
Featured on BBC Television Gardeners World.
You can watch the 4 minute film on the BBC iPlayer Here
The film starts at about 25 minutes into the programme
Or you can get the download player Here
If you would like to make any comment on the film,
please email us Here
Looking through the Moorish door leading to
the
"Exotic" back garden (His).
A little of the "Cottage style" front Garden, where most of our
collection of Clematis and Lilies are planted, all jostling for space with the
many herbaceous flowers (Hers).
September 3rd 2008 the BBC came to film
our garden
click here to see
some pictures.
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In 2005 the garden was one
of six finalists in the Daily Mail National Garden Competition.
From nearly 1900 gardens entered.
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"An astonishing garden with two quite different beautifully worked themes.
The front garden displays a rich and varied composition of hardy perennials,
with clematis particularly successful, while at the rear of the house, a
stunning and eclectic design, which draws its inspiration from Spain, is both a
horticultural and visual delight."
Professor David Stevens FSGD, Fl
Hort - Garden designer and author.
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"The garden is contained in a
pocket handkerchief. But a silk
handkerchief, hemmed, festooned, embroidered, scented. ...........If you seek a
small corner of paradise in Dorset, it is useless to go further"
Translated from a letter sent to us
from one of the members of a French garden group that visited our garden in 2005
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"The best small garden you will ever visit."
Roy Prior, Chairmam Wessex Group of the
British Clematis Society
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"I have been all over the world, and have seen many
gardens, but yours is the best."
A visitor to the garden on one of our open days
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Lyn & Malcolm
Our opening dates in 2009 for
the National Garden Scheme
Sunday July 12th from 11.00am till 5.00pm
Wednesday July 29th from 2.00pm till 5.00pm
Sunday August 16th from
11.00am till 5.00pm
We also open "By
appointment" for garden clubs and groups.
Admission - Adults £2.00 Accompanied Children under 16 free
Tea and our own homemade cakes are available.
Large plant stall
Click
HERE
for directions to the garden
Sorry, but wheelchair
access to the garden, is by appointment only.
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Money raised from our openings, for the charities
supported by the National Garden Scheme
2001---------£472.00
2002---------£825.32
2003 --------£701.00
2004---------£753.00
2005--------£1232.86
2006..........£1409.15
2007..........£1500.56
2008..........£1429.00
2009..........£??????
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Our email address
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( The little house of flowers)
Please note
We are not a nursery, and do not
sell plants, except on our open days.
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What do we do when we are not gardening ?
You can visit our Digiscoped Bird pictures by clicking HERE
All pictures on this site
by Malcolm.
Last updated 17 Apr 2009
Website designed by Malcolm Ovens
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