Forever evolving - always peaceful

Hosts: Ruth & John Appleby

Address: 285 Lake Sumner Road, Hawarden

Newstead is a garden that embraces you and makes you feel welcome. Its mature trees are limbed up and create a soft green light over everything. They overarch many of the garden beds, which are deep and lush and overbrimming with beautiful treasures.

The generous curved beds feature lovely traditional plants, including colourful rhododendrons, azaleas, cornus, viburnums, irises, aquilegia, and the very first roses, all at their peak. The mature trees are a special delight, including wonderful white stemmed birch trees and double apple blossoms.

Of special interest is the newly created rock and crevice garden showcasing a growing collection of alpine plants in a cleverly created area resembling a mountain ridge. Newstead also has generous curved sunny lawns, lots of winding paths deep into the planting, and a huge sunny border with grasses and sun-loving plants.

There is a stunning meadow studded with daisies, and a large productive vegetable and berry garden. It is a clever mix of colour and calmness, a mature garden which shows the result of 25 years of love and nurturing by a passionate plantswoman.

EVENT:

Doug Logan and Toni Robertshaw from Island Stream Peonies will be back at Newstead Garden this year, offering their wide range of beautiful home grown perennials and potted tree peonies for sale.

Among the plants on offer are rarely available tree peonies from their collection of over 250 registered varieties.

Check out Island Stream Peonies on Facebook.