The gardens around Oare House are well worth a visit when they are open for the NGS, in spring and at the end of June. There is so much to see, over quite a large area, a visit takes about 90 minutes, not allowing for tea and delicious cake served in the potting shed.
When I first visited, I thought the garden comprised a long back terrace area behind the house and a huge lawn and borders, but there's much more to the garden than that.
This is a brief description of the place taken from Wikipedia:
'Oare House is a Grade 1 listed house in Oare, Wiltshire, England. It was built in 1740 for a London wine merchant, Henry Deacon. It was largely remodelled in the 1920s by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis, for Sir Geoffrey Fry, 1st Baronet, private secretary to Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin. Its gardens, which include a summerhouse also designed by Williams-Ellis, are listed Grade ll on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. To the west of the gardens stands the Oare Pavilion, completed in 2003 and the only British building designed by I.M . Pei'.
Above is the first part of the garden you enter from the front of the house, and below rather a nice copper container containing a small pond
Dahlias and begonias were the plants used for many of the planters
Here's the lawn with the swimming pool and Pavilion just about visible
I love these stone fruit structures, unsure who they're made by.
Love the positioning of the bench and stone ornament
From the garden, there's a longish walk to the Pavilion, designed by I.M. Pei who also designed the Louvre, I think it's a fantastic structure with a beautiful backdrop
to the side of the main garden are areas of vegetable gardens edged with lavender
long borders here
and here
this view looking back to the house is rather magnificent
Here's the summer house designed by Williams-Ellis, above the walkway to it, and below a slightly closer view
There are 3 greenhouses, one with pelargoniums in, many from Fibrex Nurseries
including this species hybrid pelargonium 'Renate Parsley' which I recently bought from Fibrex myself
There are two much larger glasshouses with many glorious fuchsias
and other desirable plants
It's well worth looking out for the next available opportunity to visit in 2019 with the NGS.
When I first visited, I thought the garden comprised a long back terrace area behind the house and a huge lawn and borders, but there's much more to the garden than that.
This is a brief description of the place taken from Wikipedia:
'Oare House is a Grade 1 listed house in Oare, Wiltshire, England. It was built in 1740 for a London wine merchant, Henry Deacon. It was largely remodelled in the 1920s by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis, for Sir Geoffrey Fry, 1st Baronet, private secretary to Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin. Its gardens, which include a summerhouse also designed by Williams-Ellis, are listed Grade ll on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. To the west of the gardens stands the Oare Pavilion, completed in 2003 and the only British building designed by I.M . Pei'.
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