These gardens will be open in 2024

Swannington Manor

The house, built in 1700, creates a stunning backdrop to the garden. A huge 300-year-old yew hedge frames the garden which includes mature specimen trees and plentiful blooms, while the potager-style vegetable garden is a more recent addition.

Swannington Hall

Reopening for the first time since 2015, the extensive gardens include a moat dating back to the 13th century fed by springs. In the 1980s, the Hall was a renowned pub and restaurant boasting the largest beer garden in Norfolk, before returning to private ownership allowing for the development of formal and semi-formal beds partly designed by Chelsea gold medalist Yvonne Innes.

Manor Farm House

The house was built in the 1600s and the garden includes mature fruit trees and topiary. Recent additions to the garden include a yew topiary and lavender garden, herbaceous borders, and a terrace with potted agapanthus and salvias.

Upgate Cottage

Created over the last eight years, this colourful garden includes roses, herbaceous plants, a heated green house, a bog garden, vegetable potage and wildflower orchard with walks.

Rushton Meadows

Over the past five years this space has been transformed from a blank canvas of grass only, to a garden packed with different elements ranging from fruit trees, shrubbery and a copse of new specimens to a wildlife pond and even a fairy garden for visiting grandchildren. Entertainment spaces include the patio and firepit, all with far-reaching views across adjacent fields and woodland.

Winsfield House

Comprising a large lawned area bordered by flowerbeds and shrubs, with a small pond and wildflower area, plus quirky garden ornaments and topiary (including a feathered friend if you can find him). A small, enclosed vegetable garden backs onto a 3-acre field.

Heath Farm House

Comprising two areas of herbaceous borders either side of the house and a more formal parterre complete with box hedge and obelisk. Surrounding rough grassland has been planted with a selection of specimen trees.

Wolvercott

This half-acre garden is mainly laid to lawn with shrubs, beds and trees. But plans are underway to create an allotment, a wildflower area, pond improvements and social spaces. Expect to see work in progress!

Honeysuckle Cottage

Tucked away on Kett’s Lane, this quintessential English country cottage garden includes a wide variety of herbaceous borders and shrubs as well as walkways around the stream running through it.

Swan Cottage

This Fabergé garden is small yet houses an extensive mixture of plants and shrubs. It serves as a living memorial to Chris Segger, who worked tirelessly to maintain and develop it, and sadly passed away in early 2024. There is also a small wildlife pond with a thriving population of newts and frogs. Please note that dogs are not permitted in this garden.

The Martins

Developed over the past four years following permaculture principles, no insecticides or manufactured growing mediums are used in this flourishing garden with both ornamental and productive areas. No-dig raised vegetable beds are grown using Hügelkultur, and homemade compost. Look for persicaria, rudbeckia, California poppies and many grasses, plus a wildlife area with pond.