On Sunday Barry and Beryl Stayte opened their lovely garden to raise funds for Friends of Radley Lakes. This garden is particularly special as it won two awards in the 2011 Abingdon in Bloom event – the Best Back Garden and the Best Wildlife Garden.
A good time was had by all as the sun shone all afternoon, the homemade cakes were delicious and the garden looked stunning.
Thanks to Marjorie White for this report … The pond dipping picture is by Lynda Pasquire and the other two by Maggie Harnew.
There will be another three open gardens this weekend on Saturday 30 June 2012 in East St. Helen’s Street. £5 will cover the entrance to all the gardens. Part of Abingdon Museum Friends fundraising.
What a wonderful garden – I knew nothing about this and would love to have seen it!
Don’t miss the East St Helen Street gardens – they are beautiful – and give you the chance to see views of the river not normally available to us – also the backs and roofs of the medieval houses which are all fascinating.
(Depending on which ones are open we may also get a view of the Old Gaol development!)
Ah thanks for posting the photos.
The garden was fantastic. I can only imagine how much work it must be to keep it up.
It’ll be hard NOT to get a view of the Old Goal “development” from any of the three aforementioned gardens. It isn’t exactly small.