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We hope you will enjoy visiting the gardens, which are all privately owned, and take away inspiration and ideas to use in your own garden. From small unique cottage corners to larger gardens with space to explore, we’ve got something to interest everyone. Our own garden at Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice is also opening and we will be welcoming visitors on the 14th July to enjoy our own green space, and chat to our volunteer gardeners who give up their time to keep it looking its best (further information on page 11). We would like to say a huge thank you to all of our garden owners who have worked so hard preparing their gardens ready for us and for kindly sharing them with visitors to support Phyllis Tuckwell. Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care provides supportive and end of life care to patients and their families living with an advanced or terminal illness across West Surrey and North East Hampshire. All of our care is provided free of charge to patients and their families, but as the NHS/Government only cover 20% of our costs we rely heavily on our fantastic community to help us raise over £20,000 every single day. By visiting our Open Gardens you will be supporting Phyllis Tuckwell, enabling us to continue providing our services to the local community – thank you! Everyone is welcome, so please come along and enjoy the gardens. If you would like more information or fancy joining our Open Gardens 2019, then please see details on the inside back page of this brochure.
Thank you
Charli Quay-Barnham
Community Fundraising Manager Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care, Waverley Lane, Farnham, Surrey GU9 8BL
Phyllis Tuckwell Memorial Hospice Ltd. Registered Number 1063033. Registered Charity Number 264501.
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Rowledge Open Gardens 4 gardens around the village
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This brochure includes details of the many wonderful gardens kindly opening during Spring - Summer 2018 to support Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care.
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Dunsborough Park Ripley
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Crondall Open Gardens 8 gardens around the village
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Elm Park & Collingwood Cranleigh
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Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Farnham
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Monksfield House Tilford
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Sampsons Cottages Farnham 6 cottage gardens
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Hurtmore Chase Godalming
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Walk around the garden ticking each thing below and see if you can find them all!
Mind your step!
Remember to take any rubbish with you and leave the garden as you found it on arrival.
Steps, uneven paths and plants across the walkway are aspects of most gardens, so please take care when walking around the gardens and keep to the main paths where possible.
Photography If you see something you like and want to take a quick photo, don’t forget to ask the garden owner for permission beforehand.
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Many gardens will be offering tea, coffee and if you’re lucky cake(!), so make sure you take some spare change with you, all proceeds from refreshments will go to Phyllis Tuckwell.
Parking may be limited at some gardens, especially if it’s busy, so please plan ahead and car share if you are visiting with friends and family.
Dogs If you’ve got a four-legged friend you want to bring with you, check for the dog symbol underneath each garden description in the brochure to see if the open garden is happy to allow dogs. Don’t forget dogs need to be kept on a lead at all times and no mess left behind!
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Toilets Toilets will not be available at most gardens so please bear this in mind before you visit.
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Details of gardens subject to change at any time.
56 Copse Avenue, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 9EA Lyn & Jimmy James
A fascinating one-acre garden which was originally landscaped in the late 1960’s following the plans of a Chelsea Flower Show garden, but was subsequently allowed to become very overgrown. The present owners have restored many of the original features and are adding innovative areas of planting and interest.
th Sunday 13 May 2-5pm
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th Sunday 27 May 2-5pm
Admission: £4 (children free)
Rowledge Open Gardens
8 Broad Ha'Penny, on Boundstone Road, Rowledge, GU10 4TF, with a further
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three gardens around the village of Rowledge.
Mandy Main
Several beautiful gardens opening around the village, from the wellestablished to the newly-designed and one almost all patio. The gardens are at their most beautiful at this time of year with the spring flowers, blossom and early roses. The ‘slabbed’ garden has spots which the owners call their places to sit and find peace. Plants will be available to buy, and refreshments are available at Rowledge Village Hall, with all proceeds going to Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care.
From Six Bells roundabout in Farnham, take B3007 Weybourne Road exit and pass William Cobbett Primary School on your left. At traffic lights turn left onto Upper Weybourne Lane. Third turning on right down Oakland Avenue to end of road. Turn left onto Copse Avenue.
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Dunsborough Park, Ripley, GU23 6AL Six acres of beautiful walled gardens redesigned by Penelope Hobhouse and Rupert Golby. Lush herbaceous borders with standard wisterias, 70ft Ginkgo Hedge, Rose Walk, ancient mulberry tree, water garden and folly bridge. Enjoy roses and peonies in June.
Admission: £5 for all four gardens
Admission: £7 (children free). Admission paid to Dunsborough Park. Refreshment proceeds only split between Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care and Woking & Sam Beare Hospice. Entrance across Ripley Green via The Milkway, past the cricket green on the right and playground on the left, and round the corner. Entrance is via double brown wooden gates. Parking available in field opposite gates.
th Sunday 20 May 2-5.30pm
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Chestnut Cottage, 15 Jubilee Lane, Boundstone, Farnham, GU10 4SZ Mr & Mrs Wingent
A half acre secret garden created on different levels, with rhododendrons, azaleas, acers and herbaceous borders. A beautiful feature of this garden is a pergola supporting a 24ft wisteria. The gazebo is copied from the original National Trust Hunting Lodge, Odiham. Plant expert, John Negus, will be in attendance.
Admission: £4 (children free) Two and half miles south-west of Farnham. At A31 roundabout take A325 (Petersfield). After half a mile bear left at roundabout onto School Hill; at end of road turn right then immediate left onto Sandrock Hill Road. Jubilee Lane is on right-hand side.
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th Saturday 9 June 11.30am-3.30pm
Well-behaved dogs welcome on a lead
Plants for sale
Tea and coffee available
Partly wheelchair accessible
th Sunday 10 June 2-5pm
38 Tilehouse Road, Guildford, GU4 8AJ Caroline Boor
The terrace is enclosed by planted borders and a small water feature with stepping stones leading to a lawn. A circular decked area sits within a large border; surrounded by plants, it is reached via a wooden boardwalk. There is also a kitchen garden and a grassed earth mound at the back, providing seating around a fire pit and giving a pleasant view back to the house.
Admission: £3 (children free)
Raffle Leave Guildford on the A281 towards Shalford. After just under a mile, turn left onto Pilgrims Way and first right onto Tilehouse Road. Proceed along Tilehouse Road for a third of a mile and turn right as the road swings to the left by a postbox. No 38 is the second house on the right.
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th Saturday 16 June 2-5pm
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Penrose, Farnham Road, Churt, Surrey,
A small well-designed garden, with lots of colour and plenty of places to sit, have a cuppa and buy some plants.
Set in two and a half acres of mature garden, with many different beds and borders divided by grass pathways, pergolas, steps and hedges. The garden has many ornamental trees, shrubs and conifers including specimen cornus, hydrangea, rhododendron, azalea, osmanthus, viburnums, ginkgo biloba and acer. Large herbaceous borders and beds are filled with geraniums, roses, aconitum, agapanthus, lavender, eryngium, penstemon, hosta and echinops to name but a few! It also has a formal pond with water lilies, a child’s treehouse, fort, zip line and even a folly to discover!
Collingwood, Elmbridge Road, Cranleigh, Surrey, GU6 8NW Russell Lindfield
A beautiful, medium sized garden with bold colourful and structural plants , a patio area with colourful planters, greenhouse and pond. Directions from Cranleigh High Street: go towards Guildford, past the common and take the first exit at the roundabout. Go over the bridge at the traffic lights and follow the road round as it becomes Elmbridge Road, Elm Park will then be on the left.
Admission: £5 (children free)
Admission: £5 (children free) for both gardens
On A287 pass Frensham Great Pond on right. Pass Jumps Road on left and the house is the first on the right after Star Hill. Disabled parking inside gates, parking on grass outside or on Star Hill.
Crondall Open Gardens
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Parking at Crondall Village Hall, Croft Lane, Crondall,
GU10 5QG, and at some of the gardens as signposted.
th Saturday 14 July 11am-3pm
Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice,
Waverley Lane, Farnham, Surrey GU9 8BL
Turn left off the A31 Farnham bypass, head over the railway line at Farnham station and take the first left on the bend to Waverley Lane. Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice is half a mile down the road, with parking available at the local school (signposted).
Dr Simon C. Rawle
Come and enjoy eight colourful and inspiring gardens of all sizes and types, including working farms, cottage gardens, architectural gardens, courtyard gardens and allotments! Refreshments available at the Village Hall.
Some gardens wheelchair accessible.
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Come and visit the lovely garden at our Hospice in Farnham. It holds lots of small, peaceful areas and borders filled with an array of different shrubs and flowers, with a few garden sculptures and our special Memory Tree. With a square garden area to enjoy, you can meet our volunteer gardeners, and tea, coffee & cakes will be available!
th Sunday 24 June 2-6pm
Admission: £5 for all 8 gardens
Joint opening
34 Elm Park, Cranleigh, Surrey, GU6 8UG Jane Young-Trawber
GU10 2NS
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th Sunday 8 July 2-5pm
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Monksfield House, Tilford, Farnham, GU10 2AL
Mark and Kerry Reynolds
This beautiful garden covering ten and a half acres, has been redesigned for 2018 so this is a great opportunity to see what hides behind the electric gates in Tilford!
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Turn left off the A31 Farnham bypass, head over the railway line at Farnham station and take the first left on the bend, to Waverley Lane. Continue on Waverley Lane for two miles and Waverley Lane becomes Charles Hill.
Admission: £5 each, or £8 for both Well-behaved dogs welcome on a lead
Plants for sale
Raffle
Tea and coffee available
Partly wheelchair accessible
Toilets
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th Sunday 15 July 2-5pm
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Sampsons Cottages, West Street,
Farnham, GU9 7AW Mrs C. Sargent
Six small unique square gardens, each with individual features.
Admission: £4 for all six gardens (children free)
Sampsons Cottages can be found on West Street, opposite Farnham Cemetery. Limited parking at the cottages but plenty of free parking at the Cemetery opposite.
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Many of us use gardening as a therapy to relax after a hard day or a long week, and at Phyllis Tuckwell we are always exploring new ways to bring our patients innovative therapies to improve their wellbeing and to help them relax.
nd Sunday 22 July 2-6pm
That’s why we’ve introduced Social and Therapeutic Horticulture (STH) sessions to our range of Occupational Therapy services!
16 Hurtmore Chase, Hurtmore, Godalming, GU7 2RT Mrs Ann Bellamy
Led by Lisi Pilgrem, Occupational Therapist at Phyllis Tuckwell, the sessions are designed for those patients who enjoy nature or gardening, but due to their illness find it hard to continue to take part in these activities. The sessions enable normalisation, support patients with managing their symptoms and give them the chance to get away from their illness. Many patients may have lost muscle strength and mobility, resulting in reduced independence and the need for a carer for everyday tasks, so making a planter to take home for themselves or to give to a loved one is therefore hugely beneficial to them and very special for those receiving it.
A secluded medium sized (approx quarter acre) garden comprised mainly of a large lawn divided into discrete areas by shrubs, trees and flowerbeds with a high degree of colour. On the bungalow side of the lawn there is a patio area with hanging baskets, troughs and planted pots with fuchsias being a speciality. In the opposite corner there is a shaded arbour bordered by hostas.
Admission: £4 (children free)
From Godalming follow signs to Charterhouse & continue about a quarter of a mile beyond Charterhouse School. Or from A3 take Norney, Shackleford & Hurtmore turn off & proceed east for half a mile.
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Well-behaved dogs welcome on a lead
Plants for sale
Raffle
Tea and coffee available
Partly wheelchair accessible
Toilets
Research shows that gardening, or spending time surrounded by nature, can reduce stress levels and improve wellbeing - and since introducing STH at Phyllis Tuckwell we have seen how it has helped reduce our patients’ stress levels, increased their self-esteem, restored energy levels and improved their quality of life. Entwined with our STH we also have a beautiful garden at our Hospice in Farnham, which is maintained by a wonderful team of volunteer gardeners and which can be enjoyed by our patients, and their carers and families. We will be opening the garden on Saturday 14th July as part of our Open Gardens 2018, and we would love to invite you to come and visit, from 11am-3pm. You can meet our volunteer gardeners and tea, coffee and cakes will be available. For more information about the Phyllis Tuckwell garden opening please turn to page 11 of this brochure. 13
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2019 Ope n Ga rd e n s
Sign up to Open your Garden for Phyllis Tuckwell in 2019! Are you proud of your peonies, have shrubs you want to show off or borders of flowers to flaunt? No matter how big or small, if you love your garden and feel it has appeal and interest then we would love for you to be part of our 2019 Open Gardens. Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care have to raise over ÂŁ20,000 every single day to support patients, their families and carers across West Surrey and North East Hampshire. By opening your garden and raising money on the day for Phyllis Tuckwell you will be supporting us to reach even more patients at a really difficult time. If you would like more information about opening your garden for Phyllis Tuckwell or arranging a private event, please give the fundraising team a call on 01252 729446 or email fundraising@pth.org.uk.
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