2000 - 2011
Ferndown - Dorset - England
Hello and Welcome to our Garden.
We hope you enjoy your visit.
Lyn's
garden
is in a cottage style with many favourite old and new 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.
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Our
website contains over 1050 photos of the plants we grow and love.
You can see
the plants on our Plant Guide, which shows names and a photo of nearly every
plant Lyn
and Malcolms Plant
Guide
We also have slide shows of
some of the plants we grow in the garden, grouped into 47
different genus Slideshow
of plants
Also take a look at the slide shows of both of our gardens
Slideshows
of the gardens
Visit our Garden
picture Blog lots of pictures, to find out what
is happening in the garden now.
Here is a link to an article in Dorset Life magazine, written by a visitor to
our garden on one of our open days, when you get to the linked page, scroll down
till you find our garden Dorset
Life
*New page
Plant
Combinations
* New page
'Fancy
opening your garden?'
* New page
Clematis
flowering 2011
* New
page Lilium
flowering 2011
* New
page Cotswold
Garden Tour, with the Hardy Plant Society
Dorset Group, visiting 5 gardens in 2 days. (112 pictures)
*
Newest page added The
Lawns
Featured on BBC Television Gardeners World
April 2009. And German ARD TV 2011.
Lyn and Malcolm
Looking through the Moorish door to
the "Exotic" garden (His). And a little of the "Cottage
style" front Garden, (Hers)
September 3rd 2008 BBC Gardeners World 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 2012 for
the National Garden Scheme are
Sunday July 8th from 11.00am till
5.00pm
Wednesday July 25th
from 2.00pm till
5.00pm
Sunday August 12th from
11.00am till 5.00pm
Admission Adult £3.00 - Accompanied Children under 16 Free
Large plant stall
Teas and our own Homemade Cakes are available
And if you like the cakes. we have an A5 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.
We can accept coaches, please email to enquire
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
Dogs are not allowed in the garden.
Except guide dogs,
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Our email address
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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..........£2637.50
2011..........£2885.33
Our house sign
( The little house of flowers)
Please note
We only sell
plants on our open days and during private group visits..
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What do we do when we are not gardening ?
All pictures on this site
by Malcolm.
Last updated 11 Feb 2012
Website and photos by Malcolm Ovens
Copyright © Malcolm Ovens
