Newmarket and Ely Living Apr - May 2024

NATIONAL GARDEN SCHEME
Beautiful local gardens to visit this spring - plus raising vital funds for nursing
and health charities. For more details, visit ngs.org.uk
C L O V E R C O T T A G E
50 Streetly End, West Wickham
CB21 4RP
2 0 M I L L L A N E
Linton, Cambridge CB21 4JY
Small cottage garden with informal
planting, mixing ornamentals and
edibles. The front garden is dedicated to
growing fruit and vegetables using
organic and no dig methods inter planted
in a cottage garden style with perennial
and annual flowers. The back garden
contains seating, a greenhouse for
edible produce, flower borders and a
small wildlife pond.
Sunday 26th May
Admission: Adult: £8.00 | Child: Free
P O R T E R S L O D G E
Cavenham, Suffolk IP28 6DB
An unusual and interesting garden
designed as a series of interlocked
spaces which are enlivened by
fountains and ponds, statuary and
surrounded by a mature wood with
glades and two acres of walks.
Individual areas are linked to the inner
garden by an acre of semi-formal
lawns and mixed borders.
Architectural `follies' culminating in a
pavilion which houses a unique water
organ playing music by Haydn.
Monday 1st April
Admission: Adult: £5.00 | Child: Free
In winter find a flowering cherry tree,
borders of snowdrops, aconites, Iris
reticulata, hellebores and miniature
Narcissus. Pond and arbour raised beds
of fruit and vegetables. In summer
arches of roses and clematis, hardy
geraniums, delightful borders of English
roses and herbaceous plants.
Sundays from 18th February
Admission: Adult: £3.00 Child: Free
N E T H E R H A L L M A N O R
Tanners Lane, Soham CB7 5AB
Unusual garden appealing to those with
historical interest: March-old primroses,
daffodils, Victorian double flowered
hyacinths and first garden hellebore
hybrids. May-old English tulips, Crown
Imperials. Aug-Victorian Pelargonium,
Heliotrope, Calceolaria, Red list for Plant
Heritage.
Sundays from 31st March
Admission: Adult: £4.00 | Child: Free
G R E A T T H U R L O W H A L L
Great Thurlow, Haverhill CB9 7LF
13 acres of beautiful gardens set around
the River Stour, masses of snowdrops in
late winter are followed by daffodils and
blossom around the riverside walk in
spring. Herbaceous borders, rose
garden and extensive shrub borders
come alive with colour from late spring
onwards, there is also a large walled
kitchen garden and arboretum.
Sunday 7th April, Sunday 2nd June
Admission: Adult: £5.00 | Child: Free
F U L L E R S M I L L G A R D E N
West Stow, Suffolk IP28 6HD
An enchanting and tranquil seven-acre
creation on the banks of the river Lark.
It combines a beautiful light dappled
woodland with a plantsman’s collection
of unusual shrubs, perennials, lilies,
and marginal plants. It is a garden of
truly year-round interest.
Sunday 5th May
Admission: Adult: £7.00 | Child: Free
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