Burton Green Open Gardens 2002
Highlights

This page presents some highlights of just a few of the gardens on display.

	Moat Farm Moat Farm, dating from the 16th Century, at the far South end of the village has a particularly impressive garden, of spacious and well laid out perennials, and many old and shrub roses.

Long Meadow Farm Long Meadow Farm is another property with spacious lawns and herbaceous borders. The farm has a nice duck pond near the entrance.

A particulary impressive feature at Long Meadow Farm is the view looking in the direction of Kenilworth. You can clearly see the houses running down Red Lane (visible as a white band across the left of this picture), and Kenilworth Castle, and the spire of St John's Church at the far end of Kenilworth, and the landscape beyond Kenilworth, roughly as far as Chesterton, about 18 miles away. This is a view across the valley of the Avon, from the high point on one side, to the high point on the other.

	Rosemary Cottage Hodgett's Lane Rosemary Cottage has a distinctive naturalistic garden. The main garden is filled with tall native flowers.
	And the garden has a wildlife pond, and areas of tall grasses, with wild flowers in them.

	Bill Howes' Smallholding In addition to a conventional garden, the most interesting feature of Bill Howes' 3-acre smallholding is his livestock. This is a family of happy and lovable Tamworth piglets.
	And this is the really-free-range chicken run, with chickens running about in grass. We also saw a broody hen sitting on some eggs in one of the chicken houses. It's quite rare for hens to raise their own chicks these days. Mr Howes has a limited supply of eggs for sale to local customers.

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