Beechwell House
Yate, Nr Bristol

Next NGS Open Day
Sept 12th 2010
1pm to 5pm

 

September 10th 2006

Main Garden Open day and we have 220 visitors.  Thankfully, the weather was great!

September 9th 2006

Garden is runner-up in 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". 

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".  To read the full article, click here...

August 19th 2006

Wine evening for NGS and raised £150 for worthy charities.  A lucky couple took away a large Brahea palm in the plant raffle.

July 19th 2006

Visit by 15 members of the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens

July 19th 2006

Evening visit by 20 members of Chipping Sodbury Garden Club

July 18th 2006

Evening visit by 29 members of Wotton-Under-Edge Garden Club

May 20th 2006

Featured in The Times article, "The Eden Complex" looking at men and women's gardening tastes.  Jane Wheatley of The Times wrote....Tim Wilmot’s jungle-style garden is open to visitors under the National Gardens Scheme and he observes that men respond more warmly to its architectural character. “Men like big, spiky things,” he says, “and things with unusual shapes.”   Read the full article here.

May 2006

Visit by 20 members of the Third University

September 2005

NGS Open day, nearly 200 visitors to the garden.

Visit by 20 members of the Fielder Group of Bristol.

July 2005

Visit by 40 members of the Severnside Cottage Garden Society.

June 2005

One of 11 short listed Gardens in Daily Mail National Garden Competition, out of 1900 entries.  Unfortunately did not reach the final.  There's some good gardens our there!

June 2005

Featured in 'Bristol' Magazine.

April 2005

Featured in '25 Beautiful Gardens' Magazine.

Dec 2004

Lelandii hedge ripped out and replaced with assortment of Bamboos, mainly Phyllostachys varieties.

Sept 5th 2004

Award lunch at 2004 National Amateur Gardening Show with Tommy Walsh (the nicest guy you could meet)

August 8th 2004

NGS Charity open day.  Over 400 visitors come to the garden and we raise over £1200 for worthy charities.

 

July 2004

Win BBC Real Gardens 2004 Winner Large Garden.  Judge Mary Payne said: "A truly unique garden of palms, succulents and subtropical effect plants demonstrating a high degree of cultivation skills but also layed out in an attractive way demonstrating clearly the habitat required of each group of plants."

See a 360 degree view of the garden here

 

July 2004

Winner Yate Large Rear Garden Competition

 

July 2003

Winner Yate Large Rear Garden Competition

 

July 2002

Winner Yate Large Rear Garden Competition

 

July 2001

Winner Yate Garden Competition (Outstanding and Original Garden category)