27th Annual General Meeting of SGT, 13 August at 2pm
Drinkstone Village Hall, Gedding Road, Drinkstone, IP30 9SZ. AGM followed by visit to Holm House, Drinkstone 13th August 2022
SGT AGM & Garden Visit
The AGM is free to all members.
Garden Visit should be booked.
Directions: Drinkstone is 7 miles SE of Bury St Edmunds. Coming from the east, exit the A14 at junction 47; from the west exit at Junction 46. Follow signs to Drinkstone, then to Drinkstone Green and ‘Village Hall’. Continue along The Street into Gedding Road, and the Village Hall is on your right as you come into Drinkstone Green.
Afterwards,
there is an opportunity to visit the gardens of
HOLM HOUSE, DRINKSTONE
By kind permission of Phil and Rebecca Shelley,
with Janey Auchincloss as a guide
To book a ticket to visit Holm House, email or write to the Chairman – you will be informed if any tickets are still available, how to pay, and given directions
Members £12, Guests £14
Visit limited to 40 people
Holm House is a modern house in ‘traditional Suffolk country house style’ built in 2005 by KLH Architects of Sproughton on the site of the former bungalow of the manager of Fred Barcock’s famous nursery. The then owners engaged the garden designer Janey Auchincloss of Lavenham to redesign the gardens in 2007, retaining a number of specimen trees from the Barcock era, including the clipped holm oaks on the drive that give the property its name. The current owners, who took it over in 2015, have continued to develop the property, including the addition of a 2-acre lake (by Miles Water Engineering). It now covers approximately 10 acres and has a formal garden with topiary, a parterre and mixed borders, a rose garden in a white-paved courtyard, a Mediterranean-style courtyard with a mature olive tree, a cut-flower garden with greenhouse, a large kitchen garden with impressive greenhouse, and a lake flanked by a wildflower meadow. The garden featured in the English Garden magazine in January 2022.
A home-made tea will be provided.
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