The other Coton
Coton Lodge is a gorgeous garden – but don't be tempted to go out to Coton to find it!
The working farm, along the West Haddon Road just outside Guilsborough, belongs to Joanne de Nobriga and Peter Hicks.
It has a wonderful garden, developed over the past 40 years by Joanne and her mother Anne, who created the garden from scratch.
Guests who take B&B at the farmhouse are treated to a garden with enviable views right across unspoilt Northamptonshire countryside, and this weekend the garden opens to the public.
The garden is a dream, with a combination of classic cottage garden and contemporary bold drifts of colour, like the box-edged blue salvias.
There's a pond and stream (which was once the driveway!) and the surrounding bog garden is a mass of astilbes, hostas and ferns.
The containers are brimming and an exquisite formal cutting garden is in contrast to the shady sunken garden across the lawn.
Peter explained the garden's layout: "It used to be a dump, literally.
The farm would dig pits and fill them with rubbish. When Joanne's mother started the garden she had her work cut out, but she was a superb gardener.
Since then it has grown in Joanne 's hands.
It's always changing.
The cutting garden used to be my vegetable plot but Joanne claimed it and I got shifted."
The garden at Coton is well worth a visit, with plants for sale and teas available.
Fingers crossed, the weather forcast isn't too bad either!
Find out more at www.cotonlodge.co.uk
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