Cherubeer Open Gardens (Part 1)

Sunday 1st February we visited a National Garden Scheme & run by NGS Yellow Book of Open Gardens these open gardens are done for charity.

It was a wonderful sunny day but very cold in the shade the previous night we had a snow & hail storm but that had mostly cleared up & did not ruin any of the displays.

The gardens had something for everyone a most enjoyable afternoon & a lovely start to the year looking at early spring bulbs.

The 2 Cherubeers, a family affair, form a small hamlet in rolling farmland at 500ft at top of SW facing valley. Despite the exposed location and stony acid clay soil, the gardens provide a wealth of colour right through the season. Cherubeer: cottage garden set around a 15th Century thatched house (not open). Ponds, paths, and steps filled with colourful perennials and herbs set off by mature shrubs and trees. Higher Cherubeer: 1-acre country garden with gravelled courtyard, raised beds and alpine house, large herbaceous border, shady woodland beds with over 200 varieties of snowdrops, colourful collection of basketry willows, vegetable garden and National Collection of hardy cyclamen.