Sweet Pea Week

We are now taking group bookings for our annual sweet pea week. 70 varieties of sweet peas are grown in and around the Pickery or cutflower garden. If you would like to bring a group please contact us. Outside of sweet pea week we can also offer evening visits for groups with homemade suppers in the tearoom or coach house. The gardens are open June 30th -July 7th daily during Sweet Pea Week.

Spring Workshop Week

Whether it's Willow Weaving or Vegetable Growing,Sketching or Social Media, Felt Flowers or Stained Glass, we have a course for you this Spring. Join us to learn where to position or how to propagate your plants or  learn to identify wildflowers in the gardens. For more information please click here.

Gardens Open for the Season

Come and join us at this exciting time of year. New bulbs are appearing every day and Spring is in the air! The 25 or so resident bird species are calling or drumming all day and everything is starting to wake up.

Open Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays 11.00-4.00 p.m.

Sweet Peas for sale

Now is a great time of year to be sowing your sweet peas. Find unusual varieties and mixes on our website www.shopateaston.co.uk or visit us, we have a large range in our shop.

 

Welcome to Lincolnshire’s ‘lost’ gardens. 400 years of gardening have created a peaceful and settled atmosphere, enhanced by the beautiful valley surrounding it.

This is truly a ‘lost’ garden. When I started chopping down trees and pulling out undergrowth 11 years ago, I had a vision of what this garden could be. I never imagined it would get this good and we are now planting in earnest. The pleasure of working on this giant garden just gets better and better.

Meadows are my first love and we have fledgling meadows, David Austin Roses that weave through the grasses, 60 varieties of our favourite sweet peas and drifts of bulbs throughout the spring. We have a tearoom selling light lunches, teas and homemade cakes and a shop that stocks seasonal gardening gifts.

The gardens have been carefully designed so that adults and children can enjoy the gardens together. We have a birdhide, swing, turf maze and big yew tunnel to explore and children are welcome to pick a few flowers. Just off the A1, in the middle of England, we are easy to visit and look forward to seeing you.

Ursula Cholmeley

Unedited comments from visitors book 14 May 2013:'Sublime.Look forward to sweet peas!' 'Congratulations - so fabulous to see a restoration so sensitively undertaken''Loved it!''BRILLIANT!''Beautiful place - will call again'