Stockton Bury Garden

Not only did we find ourselves in a beautiful spot in rural Herefordshire for this year's Garden Tour when we booked rooms at The Grove near Kimbolton, we also discovered there were two gardens within walking distance. On the first morning of the holiday, we set off for the nearest garden; Stockton Bury Garden. Like many gardens we were to visit, this was a four acre garden with many different areas and interesting features and very well thought out and immaculately maintained in a wild sort of way. It has been developed from pasture 45 years ago by Raymond Treasure and Gordon Fenn, and is still maintained by them and Raymond niece, Tamsin. We were welcomed in the reception area by Tamsin who knows the garden intimately and has written a book called Diary of a Modern Gardener for sale in the well stocked shop. The book gives a fascinating insight into the maintaining of the garden over a year.

The first photograph shows the many plants flowering at one end of the garden by the ponds, and below there's a view of hydrangea covering a wall beside the shop

It's possible to walk around the house and peer into this indoor small pool beside the house with an adjoining sauna installed in 2007 if that's what MMVII represents

This is a lovely seating area behind the house with some delicate flower paintings on the walls of passion flowers, foxgloves, wisteria, honeysuckle, morning glory, rose hips and irises. I should have taken close up photos of these paintings