NGS Gardens in Warmington and Honington

The National Gardens Scheme as many people know discovers the most remarkable gardens and helps their owners open them up to the public, raising impressive amounts of money for charity. Wherever you are in this country between February and September, there will be gardens open, often on a Sunday, and also on other days as well. We were in the Warwickshire area, based at Lighthorne for our Garden Your,and found there were 3 group openings on the 17 June, even for garden lovers, the would be a bit like the 3 Peaks Challenge and involve too much traveling in between villages. We started by visiting the village of Warmington where there were 10 gardens opening, we arrived a bit early in order to get a quick off the mark start, so early that we ended up walking up to the church. This north easy Cotswold village with a village green overlooked by the Manor House is built on quite a steep hill keeping churchgoers fit as they walked up the hill.
I'll start with a photo of a Honington garden that I think will look good as the main image and then see what I've got to illustrate Warmington gardens.

OK back to Warmington gardens, where we started by looking at quite a steep garden with lots of places to sit and excellent views

 from there we went to Underedge where there was lots of emphasis on colour in a newly created bed

 and some great places to sit. There tend to be similar plants used in gardens opening in the same village, in Warmington and elsewhere in this region, there were huge displays of deliciously scented small white roses climbing through trees like this one seen below:

 There was also another beautiful Cornus

 Another feature apart from the small scented roses was orchids displayed in small groups, and a couple of gardens where photography wasn't allowed, these tended to be the most beautifully landscaped gardens, but owners of these were watching so carefully, it wasn't possible to take even the smallest photograph. Is there copyright on these gardens? I should have asked.

From Warmington, we went straight over to Honington where proceedings were still in full flow despite the fact it was by now late afternoon. There are six gardens open at Honington, we only managed five because we didn't get to Honington Hall.

I particularly liked the border above and two types of Clematis flowering well together

 The garden with most interest for me, that I'd most like to linger in was The Malthouse situated behind the main part of the village, and accessed by a small track, it was an oasis of delights.

 There were two beautifully presented display greenhouses

 A very long woodstore made of a simple yet effective construction

 There was a sort of Japanese garden near the back of the house where the owners were sharing their ideas and comparing notes with visitors.

 I couldn't stop trying to get a good view of the garden, the best one I think is the first photo I've used on this post of the shaped box.

 I liked this Clematis below, but don't know where I saw it in Honington.

After the garden visits, we went to the green and had some delicious cake.
Visiting NGS gardens is a great way to get ideas for the garden, although in some ways, although you see lots of gardens when a village opens several, sometimes when one really good one opens, that's so interesting.