On Monday 5th June we all visited a ngs open garden called Moors Meadow only 20 minutes away at Collington near Bromyard. In fact it wasn't far from the first ngs open garden we visited a few weeks ago. The gardens cover 7 acres and are located on a hillside. They are organic and contain many unusual and exotic plants. There are many paths to explore as you wander round the gardens. The gardens have won several awards over the years. They have about 3 dates when they are open for ngs and the rest of the time you can visit by prior arrangement. The gardens have a website so if you want to read more about them please see Moors Meadow Garden website
Not too much text in this post just mainly photos of these lovely gardens. There are a lot of old garden and farming tools in the garden and many sculptures.
This was the fernery with a wonderful display of Candelabra Primula.
This was the lake but it seems to have turned into more of a wetland/marsh.
I wasn't over keen on this dragon! and Timothy was going nowhere near him for a selfie!
The kitchen garden
There was a particularly lovely garden right by the house
There is a resident blacksmith on site and we were able to look round the forge.
The gardens were well worth a visit and we spent several hours exploring. I would certainly go again as it would be lovely to see it at a different season and looking at the map I suspect there were areas we missed.
Wessex Reiver - if you see this after your comment I did look for a group of gardens in a village but the nearest were in Ross on Wye about an hour away - too far for the family to want to travel. I can't believe I haven't thought of visiting NGS open gardens before!
Photos taken by me with the Panasonic Lumix FZ330 bridge camera. Those marked *D taken by my son with the Canon SX50HS. (I don't particularly rate most of my photos but if anyone wishes to use one or one of my son's I would be grateful for an email first - thanks).
