| Cambridge University Botanic Gardens |
A 40 acre garden which fulfils three purposes, research, education and amenity. There is a splendid collection of native trees as well as exotic ones including Asimina Tribola and a good specimen of Tetracentron Sinense. Among the collections is a particularly fine one of willows and poplars. There are also rockeries, a collection of species tulips, a scented garden and a range of glasshouses (both hot and cold).
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| Crossing House Garden |
This is a small garden started by the present owners 30 years ago. Despite its size there are still 5,000 species and it is amazing so much variety can be included in such a small space. Special features are the yew arches growing between the three tiny greenhouses.
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| Docwra’s Manor |
Created since 1954, this is a two and a half acre garden which has been built around a Queen Anne House. It is divided into different areas using buildings, hedges and walls. It has been encouraged to grow jungle-like and seedlings grow where they will.
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| Cambridge |
Cambridge was a Roman town established around AD70 on
a hill overlooking the River Cam. It is famous as a university town, the university having been established in the 13th century. However it has always been a busy commercial centre and today houses many industries. It is possible to visit college courtyards, and chapels at most times, or alternatively why not hire a punt or a boat
for a trip along the Cam.
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| Peckover House |
One of the main features of this two acre Victorian Garden is a Maidenhair tree which is one of the largest in England. The garden is divided by walls, the trees and plants are Victorian in taste and include Fern-leafed Beech, Wellingtonias and Lawson Cypresses, Yuccas and Spotted-leafed
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| Bressingham Gardens |
Bressingham combines the steam museum with Alan Bloom’s world-famous Dell Garden which is over 6 acres, with 47 island beds containing over 5,000 different plant species mainly perennials and alpine plants.
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| Foggy Bottom |
This is the private garden of Alan Bloom’s son Adrian. It covers six acres where the accent is on mixed planting and new ideas. Many different heathers, as well as shrubs and trees are set against a background of conifers.
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| Lake House Water Gardens |
An acre of water gardens set in a steep cleft in the river escarpment, with the gardens falling from the top of the hill away to a lily covered lake at the bottom. The formal planting has many rare and interesting species and are surrounded by drifts of Primroses, Bluebells and Daffodils as well as a profusion of wild flowers. |
| Blickling Hall |
The gardens consist of a blend of features from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. There is colour all year round: Spring Bulbs, Magnolias, Azaleas and Rhododendrons with many attractive lakeside and parkland walks.
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| The Garden in an Orchard |
The garden began as a commercial orchard and has been planted bit by bit over the years with rare and unusual plants. There are narrow paths which meander through dense plantings of species roses. Among the rare trees are Phellodendron Amurense, Prunus Padus ‘Colarata’, Paulownia Tomentosa and nine species of Eucalyptus. |
