***************************************************************** * Gardens-Guide.com * 250,000 UNIQUE VISITORS in 2011 * 2,000 garden pages viewed per day from March to September 2011 * * 1,000+ Page Views! - One-Quarter of all gardens listed on Gardens-Guide.com * were EACH viewed more than 1,000 times in 2011. * * 500+ Page Views! - HALF of all gardens listed on Gardens-Guide.com were * EACH viewed more than 500 times in 2011. * ***************************************************************** *** UPDATE FORM *** Turn End 1) Please COPY the entire FORM BELOW 2) Make any changes in BRIGHT RED -OR- mark changed Section Headers with: *** 3) email the ENTIRE FORM UPDATED backto us: wd (at) armchair-travel (dot) com **************************************************************** **************************************************************** **************************************************************** *** also - SEARCH ENGINE BOOSTING for both YOU and Gardens-Guide.com *** If your webmaster could place a link from your own website directly to your page on Gardens-Guide.com, this will improve it's rankings in Google and other search engines. Please use the following format and info on your own site to link to your page in Gardens-Guide.com: at Gardens-Guide.com http://www.gardens-guide.com The premiere directory of open gardens in the UK and Ireland today Ask your friends and suppliers as well to link to your page in Gardens-Guide as well. Every link we get into your page helps rankings for both of us in search engines. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** **************************************************************** Garden Name: Turn End Last Modified: 18-02-2012 Garden ID: 0354 pic: 0354_turnEndGarden.jpg NOTE: If this says "missing", then please send us a picture for your page which is at least 1000 x 1000 pixels in size. Thanks! Owner: Mr. & Mrs. Aldington Address: Townside Haddenham Aylesbury Postcode: HP17 8BG County: Buckinghamshire tel: 01844-291383 fax: website: www.turnend.org.uk email: English Heritage Grade: II* (house) Opening Times: www.turnend.org.uk/Open By appointment for groups of 10 or more. NGS days (see below) Scannappeal Jubilee Gardens charity open day: Tuesday 15 May 2.00 - 5.00pm. Adult £4.00. Teas and plant sales. Best Times of Year to Visit: Spring - early Summer To see: Bulbs, irises, early roses, water garden, blossom. National Collection: National Garden Scheme days: Yes Comments: Monday 7 May 2012, 2.00-5.30pm and Sunday 9 September 2012, 2.00-5.30pm. Adults £3.50, children £1.00. Home-made teas, plants sales. Parties / Coaches: Yes Comments: Viewing by Appointment: Yes Comments: Parties of 10 or more by appointment only. House Open for Viewing: Yes Comments: Occasional Open Day. call for details. Grade II* house Admission Prices: Parties £5 pp. incl. Talk & Tour. Proceeds to Turn End Trust. Parking: No Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Shop: No Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: No Teas: Yes Refreshments: No Picnics: No Dogs allowed: Yes Only on Lead: Yes Events: No Other Facilities: Book on the house & garden is for sale 'A Garden and Three Houses' by Jane Brown & Richard Bryant 1999. Limited access for disabled. Teas only on NGS day - 5th May. Features: Featured on TV and internationally in magazines. Designer: Peter Aldington Description of Garden: A post-war listed house (not open) closely integrated with garden rooms of differing character which have evolved over the past 30 years. The sequence of individual spaces offers focal points and vistas at every turn. Sunken or raised beds, formal box-edging or climbers and unusual plants are displayed against a framework of old walls and mature trees. A plantsman's garden in one acre within the village. The well-known authority on gardens, Sir Peter Shepherd said of Turn End, "I know of no other garden which packs such riches into so small a space with such beautiful and interesting plants". History: In the mid-1960's the architect, Peter Aldington, demonstrated how it is possible, against all the usual opponents, planners etc., to add three houses to an ancient village whilst complementing and enhancing it. He lives in the largest of them and created this garden to complete the effect. Local Inns: The Kings Head, High Street Haddenam Accomodation: Hartwell House Five Arrows Hotel, Waddesdon Foxhill, Kingsey, Bucks. Farmhouse accom. Restaurants: Peking Rendevous, High Street Haddenham, Chinese House of Spice, Fort End Haddenham, Indian La Chouette Green Dragon, Haddenham Village/Town/Sightseeing: Waddesdon Manor Thame Aylesbury Haddenham Village Green (duck pond)