***************************************************************** * 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 *** Woodpeckers 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: Woodpeckers Last Modified: 27-01-2011 Garden ID: 0156 pic: 0156_Woodpeckers.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 and Mrs A J Cox Address: The Bank Marlcliff Bidford-on-Avon Postcode: B50 4NT County: Warwickshire tel: 01789 773416 fax: website: email: English Heritage Grade: Opening Times: NOTE for 2012: Please check with garden owners or their website to confirm current dates open Open throughout the year, but by appointment only. Best Times of Year to Visit: All seasons To see: National Collection: National Garden Scheme days: No Comments: (All entrance fees go to NGS) Parties / Coaches: Yes Comments: Viewing by Appointment: Yes Comments: House Open for Viewing: No Comments: Admission Prices: (2010 prices) Adult £5; Child free. All fees go to NGS Parking: Yes Lavatories: No Disabled Access: Yes Shop: No Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: No Teas: No Refreshments: Yes Picnics: Yes Dogs allowed: No Only on Lead: No Events: No Other Facilities: Disabled in wheelchairs need to be accompanied. Features: Arboretum, colour themed borders, knot garden, pond and bog garden, potager, wild flower meadow and winter border.The garden was featured in the Jan 17th 2008 edition of Country Life. Designer: Drs. Andy & Lallie Cox Description of Garden: Woodpeckers is a country garden of 2.5 acres in a small hamlet with views over the surrounding pastures. Field hedges have been removed to make the most of this borrowed landscape. The garden is of interest throughout the year. A mixed border is devoted to plants that look their best in the winter and trees with coloured bark have been chosen for their colour at this time of year. A meadow garden provides excitement in spring followed by an explosion of flowers in the colour-themed borders in summer. Old roses and many clematis are a feature at this time. The garden is largely informal, but a knot garden and a potager with unusual vegetables and old varieties of apple, fit happily into the scene. Two timber framed buildings of green oak afford good viewing points in the garden and are themselves works of art. History: The owners, Dr. Lallie Cox, built a house with her husband, Andy, here in 1965 and have created and maintained the garden unaided. There was no masterplan - it just evolved. The aim was to create a garden in sympathy with the surrounding countryside. Fashion in plants and design are always changing. You will see the influence of historic gardens and modern plantsman gardening here. Local Inns: The King Arms, Cleeve Prior Blue Boar, Temple Grafton The Bell, Wixford The Cottage of Content Accomodation: Glebe Farm House, Bidford-upon-Avon Monk's Barn Farm Loxley Farm Restaurants: "The Bridge", Stratford-upon-Avon Village/Town/Sightseeing: