Event
- Title:
- Walk in Savill Garden
- When:
- 29 April 2012
- Where:
- Savill Garden - Englefield Green
- Category:
- ThamesMog Events
Description
Meet at The Sun Pub, Bishopsgate, Englefield Green TW20 0UF at 10:30 am for the start of the walk. The easiest way to find your way to the meeting point for our walk this month is to turn off the A30 at Wick Road which becomes Wick Lane – and go past Savill Gardens and the pub is on the right about 400 yards farther on. There is a small car park at the rear of the pub which they are happy for us to use and also plenty of parking on the road around the pub. Our resident savouring expert Jeff Marshall can vouch for the selection of real ales and there are Sunday lunches and snacks at reasonable cost. There is quite a large garden if we are lucky with the weather. The walk will take in the Obelisk, the Totem Pole the Valley Gardens and the Heather Gardens and if there is time, the Cow Pond which is covered with water lilies. It is an easy walk - no hills and no walking shoes needed as it is mainly on paths. The walk is about four miles altogether. We shall be back around 13:00 for lunch, so if you just want to join us for a noggin, missing out the walk, then you are most welcome to join us then. Thank you Jeff for organising this one for us, this walk at this time of year should be most spectacular
Contact: Roger Bluff
Venue
- Venue:
- Savill Garden - Website
- Street:
- Wick Lane
- ZIP:
- TW20 0UU
- City:
- Englefield Green
- State:
- Surrey
- Country:
-
Description
The Savill Garden is one of Britain’s greatest ornamental gardens. Neither a botanical garden, nor a kitchen garden attached to a great house, it is a garden for the garden’s sake, enjoyed by horticulturalists and enthusiasts alike. It never fails to charm visitors who come to explore its 35 acres of contemporary and classically designed gardens and exotic woodland.
Developed under the patronage of Kings and Queens, The Savill Garden was created in the 1930s by Sir Eric Savill. It began as a woodland garden, with native oak, beech and sweet chestnut trees, but has since evolved by incorporating many new plants over the years.
The Savill Garden is a place of constant discovery, and of hidden, interlocking gardens, containing distinctive planting groups including areas such as Spring Wood, The Summer Wood, The Hidden Gardens, The Summer Gardens, The Glades, Autumn Wood, The Azalea Walks and The New Zealand Garden. The Savill Garden mixes native and exotic species and has bred many important garden hybrids. Each ‘garden within a garden’ has its own attractions, and the gardens are ever-changing with every season bringing new colour and interest to delight the visitor.
The striking new Rose Garden, designed by Andrew Wilson, is now open. 28 different cultivars have been brought together to provide a stunning display.
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