We are constantly told by visitors that the garden is peaceful. Situated at the far end of a lane with little traffic, the overriding noise is that of bird song.

We are lucky to have a backdrop of trees and many more have been planted in the garden by ourselves and previous owners.

When one of the large ash trees came down in a gale a few years ago, we were able to take advantage of the extra light by developing a woodland garden with many unusual shade loving plants. We have since been able to add several of these to our nursery benches.

Other parts of the garden have a sunnier aspect which has enabled us to indulge our passion for growing plants from around the world, and in particular Salvias both hardy and tender.

The front garden is a well established bed made entirely from sand and hasn’t been watered in over 10 years. To the rear we have recently constructed a crevice garden built from sandstone that will house alpine plants from all over the world.

With a mosaic of trees, shrubs, perennials, ferns and climbers, there is a surprise around every corner at Woodlands, but don’t take our word for it, come and see for yourselves.