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Langley Village Gardens
26th May 2019 @ 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Five beautiful gardens are included in the Langley Village Open Gardens, which is also part of the NGS.
April Cottage
A charming thatched cottage with a colourful, established garden with many unusual plants. Enjoy old fashioned roses, cleamtis, wildlife and ornamental ponds, a damp garden and a hosta collection.
The Chestnuts
The planting beds were designed and installed by Tristen Knight, RHS Young Designer 2012. They feature reclaimed sleeper jetty, herbacious borders and a yorkstone waterfall. Meadow with mature oak trees and a newly planted hornbeam avenue.
Wickets
Wickets has wide, mixed borders, two landscaped meadows, a lily pond, parterre, shepherd’s hut and gravel garden with wonderful views over rolling Essex countryside
Old Bell Cottage
A cottage garden, successfully incorporating part of a former field, with various herbaceous beds stocked with spring bulbs, alliums, lupins and delphiniums.
Greenhouse, patio area and cabinets for hardening off. Raised beds for vegetables and in fruit cage, to overcome lack of drainage in lower garden.
There is also a sunken BBQ area and a natural pond.
Fabulous views across the valley.
1 Sparrows
This is a compact garden with fruit trees, raised vegetable beds and a greenhouse. The lawn is edged with buxus and the beds filled with shrubs plants and climbers.
This is a widlife friendly-garden with a small water feature.
Also a collection of Heuchara and Heucharella amongst various shrubs in front borders.
Arts & Crafts Exhibition at St John the Evangelist Chuch
Light refreshments including lunches and home-made teas are available at the Village Hall on Langley Village Green