NGS Garden Beechwell House

Beechwell House
Yate, Nr Bristol

Next NGS Open Day
Sept 14th 2008
1pm to 6pm

NGS Garden open for Charity

Beechwell House is a sub tropical style garden near Bristol, UK, open for the NGS National Gardens Scheme Charity

Beechwell House, 10 miles North East of Bristol, is an enclosed, level garden designed as a sub tropical garden.  Plants include Palms (over a dozen varieties), Tree Ferns, Yuccas, Agaves, various succulents, Phormiums, Bamboos, Bananas, Gunnera and other 'Architectural Planting'.  There's also a Koi pond, wildlife pond and a 16th century well. The garden is open to gardening groups, garden visits by appointment, and the National Gardens Scheme (NGS).

Next NGS Open Garden:

The next NGS open garden day is Sunday September 14th 2008 from 1pm to 6pm. This will be our fifth year of opening for the charity. We also have many private garden visits during the summer from various garden clubs.

Garden Visitors at the last NGS open garden day

 

 

 

Garden News...

 

September 9th 2007
Garden open as part of the NGS open garden days, and 170 visitors.

September 10th 2006
Main Garden NGS Open day and we have 220 visitors.  Thankfully, the weather was great!

September 9th 2006
Garden is runner-up in 2006 The Times Back Garden of the Year competition.  Times Garden Editor Stephen Anderton wrote "I have come to the conclusion that exotic gardening is a man thing, done by blokes who want to boast about the size of their bananas. Tim Wilmot has indeed got a perfectly respectable Musa basjoo, but it’s his palms he’s really proud of. And justifiably so".  To read the full article, click here...

September 5th 2006
Garden featured in a double-page spread in local Evening Post newspaper.  To quote some of the article..."Tucked away in deepest, darkest Yate is an exotic garden full of bananas, bamboo and koi carp. Tim Wilmot has spent 17 years cultivating his prize-winning oasis in Goose Green to make it the tropical paradise it is today".

 

 

 

 

Awards...

Yate 'Best Large Garden' three years running.

BBC West (Bristol), "Back Garden of the Year" 2004.

Shortlisted in Daily Mail National Garden Competition 2005.

Runner-up The Times "Back Garden of the Year" 2006.

 

More...

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