- Hodsock Priory and the Walled Garden, Clumber Park
Thursday 16th of February 2012
- Spring Lecture
Thursday 29th of March 2012
- Sunday lecture on Stowe Landscape Gardens
Sunday 15th of April 2012
Doddington Hall and Normanby Hall
Sunday 5th of September 2010
The main attraction of our Autumn coach trip this year is to see two walled gardens in Lincolnshire.
Doddington Hall, a great house built in 1595 and still owned by the same family, has 5 acres of beautiful gardens with parterres, mixed borders and a wild garden. Although we have a tour of the whole garden our main interest today is the newly restored walled kitchen garden which contains a very wide variety of produce including many rare and heritage varieties. They use organic techniques, biological control methods and rotate crops for maximum production and pest control.
There will not be time to visit the house but, hopefully there will be time to visit the splendid farm shop where produce from the garden is sold.
For more information see Doddington Hall
Normanby Hall is a Regency house set in a 300 acre deer park. The walled garden, (1817), was restored in 1997 and only planted with pre-1901 varieties of fruit, vegetables and flowers grown using traditional techniques. The bothy, tool store, potting shed and fruit store are also open. Elsewhere there are traditional herbaceous borders, a sunken garden, bog garden and woodland walks.
For more information see Normanby Hall
Itinerary (All times approximate)
- 8.15am Pick up Glebe Road Oadby
- 8.45am Pick up Six Hills Hotel
- 10.00am Arrive Doddington Hall
- 10.30am Guided tour of gardens and walled garden
- 12.30pm Lunch
- 2.30pmm Arrive Normanby for tour of walled garden with head gardener, Sue Hoy
Costs for trip includes all entrances, morning coffee, lunch (cheese or ham ploughman’s) and tours of both gardens.
Members £36
Guests £39
For more information and to reserve your place: Contact us.
or phone Elizabeth on 0116 2705711
Coach will leave Glebe Road, Leicester (Botanic Gardens Entrance) promptly at 8.15 am.
In addition there will be a pick up at Six Hills Hotel on the A46 at approxinately 8.45am.
(Let Elizabeth know if you plan to join at Six Hills Hotel)