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3. Sleightholmedale Lodge Gardens east of Fadmoor near Helmsley A 'random' pictorial presentation of these superb gardens
Sleightholmedale Lodge Gardens are part of the Open Garden Scheme of the National Gardens Scheme (NGS) and opens a few times a year for charity The gardens lie on a south facing slope of an ancient wooded valley between heather on the moor top and a beck running down the valley beyond the fields. Where do you start a description in this bewildering array of flowers with border of hollyhocks and daisies, roses and delphiniums, campanulas and penstemons, verbascums and lychnis in what seem like a well laid out, but somehow a delicious random arrangement of plants. With hollyhock, yellow verbascums, penstemons, lavender, Ceanothus x delileanus 'Gloire de Versailles', sea holly, Eryngium alpinum, scarlet funnels of Crocosmia 'Lucifer', clematis and the deep-pink cockades of 'Minnehaha', another rambler rose popular in Edwardian times. Drifts of gentian-blue delphiniums, globular yellow Centaurea macrocephala, orange heleniums, pink-spiked lythrum, milky-blue Campanula lactiflora and purple salvia ... etc. etc. ...!
Sleightholmedale Lodge house.
Looking down into Sleightholme Dale
The house is sometimes referred to as Sleightholme Dale Lodge North Yorkshire docspics pictures images © Phil Brown |
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