Flower Power Fairs - Welcome

WELCOME

After a very successful year, I am now delighted to announce the new dates and new venues for the 2010 FLOWER POWER FAIRS.

There are several old favourites including Newburgh Priory, Duncombe Park, Heaton Park, Jodrell Bank and Skipton Castle and of course last year's new houses - Ripley Castle and Sutton Park. However, I have changed some of the dates (Jodrell Bank just in case Andy Murray gets into the Wimbledon final!) and Skipton Castle due to the Gala, so please double check before setting out.

In 2010, I am introducing SIX NEW VENUES. I have two very special private gardens to offer you this year, both a delight and sure to be very popular, one in North Yorkshire at Wytherstone House, Pockley and the other in Staffordshire in the little village of Admaston, between Rugeley and Stafford, overlooking Blithfield Reservoir. Both gardens are a delight and well worth a visit and you gain free entry to both when you visit the Plant Fair.

Flower Power goes down to Lincolnshire for the first time to the wonderful Tudor mansion of Doddington Hall near Lincoln on Sunday 23 May before returning to Yorkshire on the following Bank Holiday Sunday 30 May. Constable Burton Hall, a beautiful house (designed by John Carr of York) and gardens near Leyburn in Wensleydale are opening their gardens for Flower Power.

The little known but delightful Grade I Lancashire house, Lytham Hall, another of John Carr's designs and said to be one of his greatest, is another new venue for us where visitors will be able to wander through the grounds and also visit the house. Lytham St Annes is also beside the sea so a hearty walk along the beach is also recommended that day.

The following weekend Flower Power travels down to Derbyshire and to delightful Osmaston Park, near Ashbourne. The Hall was demolished in the last century but the park remains and the fair will be held on the footprint of the old house, overlooking the lake. The park is not normally open to the public.

All the fairs open from 10am - 4pm and many include entry to gardens and grounds. Refreshments and toilet facilities are always close by and all sites give disabled access. Most venues allow dogs on leads, but if you are unsure, just drop me a line and I'll give you further details about that, or anything else you want to know. All venues offer FREE PARKING (with Skipton Castle being the exception).

If you would like to be kept up to date with events and nurseries in attendance, or if you have any queries, please complete the form.

I look forward to welcoming new and familiar faces to Flower Power Fairs in 2010. Meanwhile, happy gardening