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The Dorothy Clive Garden
Dates:
30th August & 31st August (Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday) August 10am - 5.30pm

Venue Details:

The Dorothy Clive Garden
Willoughbridge
Market Drayton
Shropshire
TF9 4EU

Tel: 01630 647237
email: info@dorothyclivegarden.co.uk
website: www.dorothyclivegarden.co.uk

The 12 acre Dorothy Clive Garden is surprisingly intimate and informal. It embraces a variety of landscape features, including a superb woodland garden, an alpine scree, a damp garden and spectacular summer flower borders.

Visitors can rest on the many garden seats provided throughout the grounds and enjoy the tearoom's home-baking on the terrace lawn, whilst taking pleasure from the lovely views of the surrounding countryside.

Admission to Garden and Fair: Special Offer for this event: £2.50 (half normal price). For this event RHS partnership garden free entry terms also apply.

This exciting event features 

12 specially selected nurseries including RHS Gold Medallists., 
A programme of free talks by expert Nurserymen including:

Planting a Pond-in-a-Pot: Linda Smith of the award winning Waterside Nursery

Growing Coloured Foliage in a Container by Anthony Norman of Conquest Plants Nursery.

More to be confirmed.

Click here for pictures from the 2008 event

Groups may pre-book places on the talks.  For information about this and booking a coach party contact Janet & Martin at Plant Hunters' Fairs.

Click here to download printable event details (Adobe pdf file 90k)

Directions:

The garden is in North Staffordshire, close to the Shropshire and Cheshire borders. It is on the A51, midway between Nantwich and Stone, two miles from the village of Woore.

From North and South
Exit M6 at Junction 15
Take A53, signed Market Drayton and Shrewsbury
Turn right at junction with A51. Drive half mile - garden is on the right.

From West
On A51 (from Nantwich); Garden is 2½ miles south east of the village of Woore
On A525 (from Whichurch); Turn right at A51 at Woore. Garden is 2½ miles, on left
On A53 (from Market Drayton); Turn left at junction with A51. Drive half mile - garden is on the right.

From East
Join A500 at Stoke-on-Trent
On approaching M6 Junction 15, follow sign to Market Drayton and Shrewsbury (A53)
Turn right at junction with A51. Drive half mile - garden is on the right.

Nurseries in attendance: are:

Chris Cooke Plants 
Conquest Plants Nursery
 
Dorothy Clive Garden Nursery
Green's Leaves 
Hall Farm Nursery 
Hillview Hardy Plants 
Holden Clough Nursery 
Mary Green 
Mayfields 
Slack Top Nursery
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Waterside Nursery
Woodfield Nursery

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Views over Staffordshire countryside (c) SpecialPerennials.com

 
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