Abbey House Gardens

Malmesbury Wiltshire SN16 9AS. Tel: +44 (0)1666 822212

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Abbey House Gardens Description

Abbey House Gardens is the 5 acre former Abbey House garden and is next to Malmesbury Abbey, in Malmesbury, Wiltshire.

If your visit is to only one garden in the Malmesbury area, then you will have to make it this one. Abbey House Gardens is the former Abbey House garden which has been lovingly restored by Barbara and Ian Pollard. On a visit to Abbey House, BBC gardening guru, Alan Titchmarsh says of the garden, "The WOW! factor is here in abundence".

Visitors can enjoy the experience, smells of the scented roses as their aroma fills the gardens in the early summer air, marvel or relax and, if you're a gardener, to be be inspired. In its creation at the the end of the twentieth century and at start of the millenium over 2000 different roses were planted, the first of many thrilling surprises that the designers have created.

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Growing here is one of the largest private collection of 4000 herb and plant species, all laid out personally by the owners and keeping within the bounds of the site's history, with Malmesbury Abbey, the stunning backdrop and the sixteenth century house surrounded by the gardens.The formal layout is designed with a "Celtic cross" knot garden, a 'mediaeval' herb garden encompassed by fruit cordons, herbaceous borders, foliage and bog gardens. The recently restored woodland walks with banks of heather and ferns, carpeted in the spring with bulbs lead down to the River Avon and the monastic fish ponds.

Part of the gardens are on a sloping hillside leading to the river gardens and because of this a discount on admission is available for visitors who use wheelchairs and unable to reach those parts of the garden.

Refreshments are available in the tea room. There are toilet facilities within the garden.

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