Bluebell Cottage Gardens
Bluebell Cottage Gardens are open from 1st April 2010 to the 3rd October 2010, Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm, and all spring and summer bank holidays
Adults £3.00, RHS members free, children free. We are participants in the BBC GW magazine '2-for-1' offer on production of a valid card
The 1.5 acre garden wraps around the cottage (our home) and extends to the Trent and Mersey canal towpath which you can see through the top hedge in the orchard. There are several distinct areas, each interconnected with gravel or grass paths. Here’s a quick tour….
- From the nursery, you'll enter the orchard, with mature and young apple, pear and plum trees. At the top is a seat with a perfect view of the orchard below - listen out for canal boats passing behind you.
- Across the top of the garden is the Canal border, packed tight with mature herbaceous perennials. The two huge square borders here were planted in 2008 to celebrate Cheshire's Year of the Garden .
- Walk down through the gap in the yew hedge to the scree garden, with its gorgeous display of Pulsatillas in spring
- Walk under the Catalpa and into the original cottage garden, newly re-planted for 2010 with traditional cottage garden plants
- Through the pergola takes you into the exotic garden, created in 2009 from plants used in our Tatton Show garden, 'Inspired by Great Dixter'. Let's hope some have survived the intense cold of Jan 2010!
- Through the old cottage potager, with its neat clipped box hedges. We use the sheltered beds to grow green salads soft fruit and sweetcorn
- Turn right into the grasses garden with its small but impressive display of ornamental grasses and a growing collection of Aconitums, Thalictrums and Hellebores.
- Finally, do spend a few minutes sitting by the pond in the centre of the garden, enjoying the wildlife that lives there, before rewarding yourself with tea and cakes in our tea room