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2000 - 2010
Lyn and Malcolms Garden
Ferndown - Dorset - England
Hello and Welcome to our Garden.
This is the 10th year we have opened our
garden for the National Garden Scheme.
We hope you enjoy your visit.
Lyn's
garden
is in a cottage style with many old and new, favourite plants. Phlox, lilies,
roses and monarda, are planted to encourage butterflies and bees, as well as
giving a riot of colour and scent into late summer. 100+ Clematis are woven into
and around it all.
Then walk
through a Moorish keyhole doorway into Malcolm's exotic garden. large bananas,
brugmansia, cannas, oleander, agave, ipomoea and dahlia, come together in a
Spanish influenced design. This website contains over 1000 photos of our garden,
and the plants we grow and love. You can see all the plants we have, by looking
at our Plant Guide which includes a photo of nearly every one, just click here Lyn
and Malcolms Plant
Guide
Featured on BBC Television Gardeners World
April 2009.
Lyn and Malcolm
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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One of the Daily Telegraphs 50
Great small gardens to visit.
Listed in the Daily Telegraph 2009
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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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Our opening dates in 2010 for
the National Garden Scheme are
A big thank you to all
262 visitors who came to our open day on Sunday July 11th.
It was great to see those who have visited us before, and also a lot of first
time visitors.
Another record was broken on our
open afternoon on Wednesday July 28th
200 visitors in three hours.
Unbelievable, thank you.
Sunday August 15th from
11.00am till 5.00pm
Admission Adult £2.50 - Accompanied Children under 16 Free
Large plant stall
Teas and our own Homemade Cakes are available
And if you like the cakes.
For 2010 we will have a booklet for sale, with ten of the best recipes. All
the pages are laminated and spiral bound.
We also open "By
appointment" for garden clubs and groups.
Click HERE
for directions to the garden
Sorry, but wheelchair
access to the garden, is by appointment only, due to the garden being so busy on
open days
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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..........£2215.20
2010...........£??????
( 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 ?
All pictures on this site
by Malcolm.
Last updated 28 Jul 2010
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