GARDEN DETAILS
Lawson Park, East of Lake Coniston
CONTACT: karen@grizedale.org
TELEPHONE: 015394 41050
LOCATION:
LA21 8AD
5m E of Coniston. From Coniston Village follow signs East of Lake/Brantwood, car park signed 1m after Brantwood car park. Please use free minibus (runs every 10 mins) from Machell's Coppice car park. On foot 10 mins steep walk up established footpath from car park.
Historic hill farm overlooking Coniston, which since 2001 has been restored to a working smallholding, productive and ornamental gardens, and artist's residency base. Approx 5 acres of reclaimed fellside in spectacular setting. Informal herbaceous, woodland, bog and wild gardens (incl wild flower meadow) and organic kitchen garden with apiary. Many experimental plantings and unusual seed-grown perennials and trees. Wildlife includess deer, red squirrels, badgers, bats and slow worms. Produce for sale.
OPENING DATES AND TIMES:
Adm £3.50, chd free (share to Grizedale Arts)
Cream teas
Day & Early Evening Opening, teas & wine, Sun 24 Aug (12-7). Visitors also welcome by appt July to Sept only, groups of between 10 - 20 (on site parking by prior arrangement).
NB - Lawson Park farmhouse is currently in the process of a major refurbishment, and is not part of this event
Topics: 'garden' 'National Garden Scheme'
Bog Garden, July 2008
Lawson park's 4 beehives are suffering from the bizarre spring and early summer weather here - 5 weeks without rain then 3 with nothing but.
We have to feed each colony a gallon of sugar water (in July !) to try and kickstart the queens' laying and get those girls out there again.
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i carn't find the monkey.
what monkey?!
Adam illicitly climbed on top of Leck's site hut to take this picture of the garden. There's not a lot of flowers out yet as this is really a late summer part of the garden, but you can enjoy the lushness.
Topics: 'farmhouse garden'
Farmhouse borders in early July 2008
The bog garden we planted late last summer is developing rather gorgeously. As long as you ignore backdrop of the building site (behind me when I took this snap) you can revel in primulas - mooreana (that's the nonstop purple in the foreground) , florindae and bulleyana - hellebores, verbascum, ferns and hostas.
This area has called like a siren to our former gardener George Watson, whose now coming back in once a week!
Topics: 'bog garden' 'primula'
The Bog Garden in July 2008
Rather pleased with the way the 2 regenerated paddy fields are coming along. Soil was created from rotting down the cuttings and wood chippings from the field. This year is the first year of cultivation purely based on what we have been able to regenerate from the hill. Crops of Broad and French beans in one bed plus potatoes, cauliflower and sprouts in the other - each field is half sewn with green manure - alfalfa on this occasion.
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Chips growing in the wild
Topics:
- aerial photography[1]
- allotment[1]
- alpines[1]
- animals[1]
- antiquities[1]
- apiary[1]
- apples[1]
- archaeology[1]
- Arnolfini[1]
- bad weather[1]
- bees[1]
- biodisc[1]
- blade[1]
- blueberries[1]
- bog[1]
- bog garden[1]
- bonsai[1]
- bottle[1]
- Bracken[3]
- Brantwood[2]
- building[15]
- burgess roughton[1]
- carving[2]
- China[1]
- Chinese artists[1]
- coldframe[1]
- collection[1]
- cows[1]
- deer[1]
- delays[1]
- demolitions[2]
- drainage[2]
- drilling[2]
- drystone walling[1]
- eco[1]
- electricity[1]
- escaped cows[1]
- excavations[1]
- farm auction[1]
- farm equipment[1]
- farmer[1]
- farmhouse garden[1]
- fennel[1]
- finds[1]
- flower arranging[1]
- food[1]
- France[1]
- friends of the lake district[1]
- garden[12]
- gardener[2]
- gardening[1]
- George Watson[1]
- geraniums[1]
- graffiti[1]
- grand designs[2]
- ground source heat[6]
- haymaking[1]
- heather[1]
- hedgerow[2]
- history[1]
- honesty shop[2]
- honesty stall[1]
- interior[1]
- interiors[1]
- Ireland[1]
- irises[1]
- Japan[2]
- Kitchen Garden[5]
- Lancashire[1]
- landscape design[1]
- Lawson Park[14]
- Lawson Park building[4]
- Leck Construction[1]
- machinery[1]
- Magazine[1]
- materials[1]
- moor[1]
- morels[1]
- mosses[1]
- mountain bikes[1]
- mowing[1]
- mushrooms[1]
- Narnia[1]
- National Garden Scheme[3]
- new growth[1]
- open garden bog[1]
- Polar Bear[1]
- primula[1]
- progress[1]
- pruning[1]
- raised beds[2]
- rock[1]
- rock garden[1]
- roses[1]
- Ruskin[1]
- salvage[1]
- seeds[1]
- sewage treatment[2]
- slate[1]
- snow[1]
- spring[1]
- stirrup[1]
- Sustainable[1]
- tea[1]
- tea house[1]
- trees[1]
- tropical[1]
- trug[1]
- vegetables[3]
- vegetables for sale[1]
- view[1]
- vintage cigarette packet[1]
- Vitamin Project Space[1]
- volunteer[1]
- water[1]
- wild fungi[1]
- wildflower meadow[2]
- wind[1]
- wooden beams[1]
Months:
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2008
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2007
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2006
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