Group Visits to Jacqueline Iddon Hardy Plants and Gardens

Groups Societies Clubs

Garden Visits 2010
The Garden is open to groups, a minimum of 20 (up to a full size coach) from May to Sept. any day or evening. The Garden is 1½ acres split into different areas, a hot Mediterranean garden with bottle wall and folly for sun loving plants. We have a Victorian fern house and a walled garden.

There is a woodland walkway for shade loving plants and a large stream fed pond planted with a wide range of unusual foliage & flowering plants, alongside climbing roses, clematis, shrubs & herbaceous borders. In the garden there is sculpture and a hardy plant nursery, with a wide selection of perennial plants of interest to the keen gardener & flower arranger. There is a large garden studio & conservatory with indoor seating as insurance against the weather. The garden has been featured in Lancashire Life, Flora Magazine, Gardens Illustrated and Lancashire Magazine.

New for 2010
A Gallery will open in the garden to house the sculpture of Thompson Dagnall. This is in the form of a traditional log cabin made of whole larch logs with a green roof.

Group Visits (The options available)

(a) Tour of Garden & Nursery including tea/coffee + biscuits £5
(b) Tour of Garden & Nursery including tea/coffee & home made cake + Talk/demonstration on the right plant for the right place. £7.50
(c) Tour of Garden & Nursery including sandwiches & side salad tea/coffee & home made cake £10.50 each.
(d) Tour of Garden & Nursery including a two course meal £17 per person. Ask Jacqueline for a selective menu.
(e) Adding a thirty-minute demonstration to any of the above add an extra £1.50 per person to the price.
(f) Adding tea/coffee and biscuits on arrival or before leaving add £1.00 per person to the price.

We also run a full day trip starting with morning coffee and shortbread, tour of garden and nursery, two-course meal demonstration/talk with afternoon tea to finish. £20

Entries in the visitors book

"What a lovely day super outing wonderful" 13/7/05 Prestbury Flower Club.

"A truly enjoyable evening, very lovely to revisit and see the garden evolving"
13/6/05 Hool W.I.

"Could spend more than a day here, really lovely atmosphere plants in the very best condition"
2/7/05 Longtown Horticultural Society.

"Lovely garden, great afternoon, thank you, a little bit of Heaven"
29/7/04 Mid Cheshire Flower Club.

"A wonderful welcome and a lovely garden, super plants to remember you by."
Wynnstay Flower club 13/6/06

"Thank you for a wonderful evening which we all thoroughly enjoyed."
Euxton Mothers Union.14/6/06

"A lovely evening flowers sculptures truly magnificent thank you."
Hollinshead Church.23/6/06

"You have made our annual garden outing a very special day thank you so much"
South Cheshire Floral Society.5/7/06

“A truly lovely day out superb food and a wonderful flower demo the gardens are a credit to you”
Wilmslow guild Flower club 23rd May 08

“ A wonderful afternoon in an idyllic garden lovely welcoming hosts, (and delicious cake)” Croxteth garden society 4th July

“Each visit is a great delight thank you for the garden and its contents”
Frieda’s flower class 6th June 08