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Norfolk Garden Scheme – Norfolk

Name: Norfolk Garden Scheme – Norfolk
Start: 2025-05-07T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-05-07T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Stody Lodge

May 7 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

It is that time of year when gardeners do not stop. So why not take a break and visit someone else’s garden. You might find inspiration for that tricky area. An abundance of colour will amaze you at Stody Lodge near Melton Constable. Combine a walk in Sheringham Park with a visit to the gardens at the seldom open Sheringham Hall on the North Norfolk coast. Further west along the coast at Stiffkey you will find contrasting areas at Warborough House. In Norwich there is a combined opening of two gardens in Le Strange Close and a fun group in Bracondale. 10 miles west of Norwich, Manor Farm, Coston is a great garden for the children as is Hoveton Hall near Wroxham. New to the scheme this year and crammed with colour is Greenacres Farmhouse, north of Thetford, while Lexham Hall near Litcham has maintained its high standards for over 50 years. Meet your friends at a special evening opening at Silverstone Farm and enjoy a glass of wine.

Wednesday 7th May 1-5

STODY LODGE, Melton Constable, NR24 2ER. Adm £9, chd free. Home-made teas. Wheelchair access to most areas. Dogs allowed.

Spectacular gardens with one of the largest concentrations of rhododendrons and azaleas in East Anglia. Created in the 1920s, these gardens also feature magnolias, camellias, bluebells and a variety of ornamental and specimen trees. Expansive lawns, Woodland walks with 4 acres of water garden providing a riot of colour.

Saturday 10th May 1-5

SHERINGHAM HALL, Upper Sheringham, Sheringham, NR26 8TB.

Adm £8, chd free. Pre-booking essential. Light refreshments.

An opportunity to visit this very private and wonderful garden set within Sheringham Park. Designed by Repton, the walled garden has been redesigned by Arabella Lennox-Boyd with restored glasshouses and cold frames. Replanted orchard, hornbeam temple, new herbaceous borders, parterres and a white garden. Wildflower meadow between hot and cool borders.

Sunday 18th May 10.30 – 4.30

BRACONDALE GARDENS:
Norwich, NR1 2BB

14 CONESFORD DRIVE

SOUTHGATE HOUSE

1 WOODSIDE COTTAGES

Combined adm £9, chd free. Home- made teas at Southgate House. Tickets for all three gardens sold at Southgate House.

Three attractive compact town gardens a short walk apart and each with a different character: Southgate House, the former Harbour Master’s house is about an acre, half of which is formed on a steep escarpment providing woodland hillside walks. Garden rooms have ornamental beds and interesting plants. 14 Conesford Drive has a lush planting of fruit, vegetables and flowers which greet you at the side of this 1960s modernist house leading to a densely- planted cottage garden of carefully selected perennials and climbers. 1 Woodside Cottages is a very pretty, small cottage garden packed with colourful plants both ornamental and edible. Even the resident chickens are decorative. Fruit trees and vegetables grow side by side with perennial and annual flowers and a small pond supports a multitude of frogs each spring.

Sunday 18th May 12-5

MANOR FARM COSTON, Coston Lane, Coston, Wymondham, NR9 4DT.

Adm £6, chd free. Light refreshments. Wonderful five-acre country garden set in larger estate. Several small garden rooms with both formal and informal planting. Climbing roses, walled kitchen garden, white, grass and late summer themes, classic herbaceous and shrub borders, box parterres and large areas of wildflowers. Many interesting trees and collection of sculptures dotted round the garden. Some wheelchair access.

Saturday 24th May 11-4

GREENACRES FARMHOUSE, Nursery Lane, Hockwold, Thetford, IP26 4ND Adm £5, chd free. Tea, coffee & cake. A very pretty traditional cottage garden on the edge of the village. With mature trees, this garden, adjacent to C18 farmhouse is crammed with colour, roses, shrubs, flowers, pond and gravel dry garden, with beehives. Wheelchair access but some gravel and small steps so will require help. Parking in meadow short walk from garden. Local honey for sale.

Sunday 25th May 10.30 – 5

HOVETON HALL GARDENS, Hoveton Hall Estate, Hoveton, Norwich, NR12 8RJ. Adm £10, chd £5. Light refreshments. Explore the 15-acre garden and woodland taking you through the seasons. Mature walled herbaceous and kitchen gardens. Informal woodlands and lakeside walks. Nature spy activity trail for our younger visitors. The gardens are accessible to wheelchair users.

Sunday 25th May 10.30 – 4.30

9 LE STRANGE CLOSE

Norwich, NR2 3PN. Combined adm with 20 Le Strange Close £7, chd free.
Enclosed by mature trees and yet still full of light, this garden is a tranquil oasis. Dwarf heritage apples, irises, mulberry and highly scented roses contrast with low maintenance borders for dry loving plants and pots of succulents. Wheelchair access via gravel drive. Garden on one level.

20 LE STRANGE CLOSE, Norwich, NR2 3PW. Combined adm with 9 Le Strange Close £7, chd free. Home-made teas.
A city garden that is plant-filled and wildlife-friendly, with unusual materials and structures. The front garden is a mini allotment with crab apple arches framing the path. Designed and planted by the owner, garden designer, Rajul Shah. Access to back garden is possible via driveway and paved path. A very gentle slope leads to the rear. The front path has one step.

Sunday 25th May 11-5

LEXHAM HALL, Litcham, PE32 2QJ

11-5 adm £8.00, chd free. Light refreshments in aid of Tapping House. Dogs allowed.

Parkland with lake and river walks surround C17/18 house (not open). Formal garden with terraces, roses and mixed border. Traditional working kitchen garden with crinkle-crankle wall. Rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias and magnolias in woodland, set in fine parkland.

Sunday 25th May 11-5

WARBOROUGH HOUSE, 2, Wells Road, Stiffkey, NR23 1QH

Adm £6, chd free. Home-made teas. Plants for sale. Partial wheelchair access. No dogs.

7-acre garden on a steep chalk slope surrounding C19 house (not open) with views across the Stiffkey valley. Many different aspects include woodland walks, formal terraces, lawns, wildflower areas and walled garden create a garden of contrasts.

Friday 30th May Evening opening 6-8.

SILVERSTONE FARM, NORTH ELMHAM, DEREHAM NR20 5EX

Adm £7, Wine. Partial wheelchair access. Dogs allowed.

Formal garden of 2 acres, home of designer George Carter, (described in Sunday Times as ‘one of the best garden designers in Britain’). 1830s farmyard and gardens in 2 acres. Inspired by C17 formal gardens. The site is divided into a series of interconnecting rooms with framed views and vistas and a simple palette of evergreen & deciduous trees and shrubs such as available in that period.

Many of our gardens are also open ‘By Arrangement’ which means clubs, groups or a party of friends can book directly with the owner for a private tour. Have a look at the selection By Arrangement

Open By Arrangement 15th May – 30th June

HOE HALL, Hall Road, Dereham, NR20 4BD

Book direct with owner https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/43423/hoe-hall

Tea & cake option available on booking.

Fill your senses with fragrance in the walled garden where you will find a wonderful, white wisteria walk. This is set in the grounds of a Georgian rectory surrounded by parkland. The garden was redesigned in 1990 to incorporate climbers and herbaceous plants, with box parterres replacing the kitchen garden. There are espaliered fruit trees, and an old swimming pool with water lilies.

Before setting out to a garden it is always advisable to check the website for any UpToDate information ngs.org.uk