Summer Outing – Provisional Information!
Sunday!! June 28th
Wollerton Old Hall Garden and Hodnet Hall Gardens
Chris Beardshaw - "I can show anyone, anywhere in the world, photos of this place and they all agree that it is a world-class example of an English Garden"
Chris Packham - "What has to be one of the most beautiful gardens I have ever seen"
Sir Roy Strong - "The test of a good garden is whether it fires you up to change your own and that Wollerton Old Hall always does in spades"
We have a chance to visit two very different Shropshire gardens near Market Drayton and close to each other. Our coach trip there should take well under 2 hours.
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Wollerton Old Hall Garden is a four acre plantman’s garden developed around a 16th Century house (not open) in rural Shropshire. Strong formal designs have | |
| created many separate gardens each with its own character. It features intensive cultivation of perennials using planting combinations with an emphasis on colour and form, as well as many rare and unusual plants . There is a café here for tea/coffee and lunch. |  |
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Hodnet Hall is 10 minutes away and its gardens have been described as “one of the best examples of a planted landscape in the U.K”. Here there are 63 acres of gardens with grand vistas, intimate, secluded areas, a walled garden and magnificent lakes. Forest trees provide a wonderful backdrop for formal gardens planted to give delight during every season, woodland walks amongst flowering shrubs and a daisy chain of ornamental pools. Hodnet also has a café. |
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The approximate cost will be between £22 and £23