Peak District Garden Days in Derbyshire and Staffordshire

There are so many special gardens to visit - it is difficult to know which to choose. However, if you have never been to Chatsworth, Tatton Park or Biddulph Grange, these must be your first choices (and they are all very different to each other!).

Tatton Park
Knutsford
Tel: 01565 654822
Home of the RHS Flower Show in July
A fabulous garden including a Japanese garden.  Also home to the summer RHS Tatton Park Show.  If you are here in approximately the third week of July and a gardener, this is a must see!

Biddulph Grange
Biddulph
Tel: 01782 517999
A National Trust, recently restored garden. It is a series of world garden rooms.  Fabulous fun to explore for keen gardeners and children alike!

 

The Chinese garden at Biddulph Grange

 

 

May colour at Biddulph Grange Gardens

 

Trentham

A wonderful large garden having had millions £££ spent over the last decade restoring it to it's former glory.  There is also a large garden centre here

 

Trentham Gardens, formal Italianate gardens, fabulous borders, a huge lake and wonderful woodland

 

Chatsworth
Bakewell
Tel: 01246 582204
Stunning. Paxton designed the world famous cascade. Over 100 acres

 

Near Altringham

Cheshire  WA14 4SJ

Tel: 0161 941 1025

A wonderful National Trust house with a famous deer park and, now, a newly created Winter Garden.  From the late 1600's a Deer Park was established and in the ensung 100 years over 100,000 tress were planted.  These frame the formal avenues that fan out accross the park.  If you visit in the autumn you may see (and hear!) the deer rutting.  Go in late winter/early spring to see the multitued of spring bulbs and wintr plants.

 

 

Jodrell Bank Arboretum
Near Macclesfield
Tel: 01477 571339
Started by the astronomer Lovell, it holds ther national collections of Malus and Sorbus

Arley Hall
Northwich
Tel: 01565 777353
Claimed to have the oldest herbaceous border in England!  Do visit if you are staying at a Party House in the summer perenniel months!

Dorothy Clive garden
Market Drayton
Tel: 01630 647237
Set in a 200 year old quarry

 

Hall Croft Farm, Hilton Near Derby

Tel: 07815 956626

A pcik your own lavender farm,  Buy plants and visit the tea rooms.  Call for opening hours (c Mid June to mid December)

 

Brailsford, Ashbourne, DE6 3BU

01335 360745

Wonderful plantings and a real mix of garden styles and themes.  Usually open Sundays and other dates by appointment - just ring!

Wollerton Old Hall
Market Drayton
Tel: 01630 685760
An Arts and Crafts garden

Hodnet Hall
Market Drayton
Tel: 01630 685202
70 acres of woodland garden

Stapely Water gardens
Nantwich
Tel: 01270 628628
A water garden nursery (c 60 acres) with big glasshouses

 

Long Lane, Matlock, DE4 5GH

Tel:01629 534380

A wonderful spring garden full of azaleas, rhododendrons, kalmias and alpines. Open daily c mid March to end June (phone before visitng)

Alton Towers
Alton
Tel: 01538 702200
Famous as a theme park but the gardens are also lovely

 

Belper River Gardens