Spilsbury Farm, Tisbury, Salisbury SP6 3RU
By kind permission of James and Tania Compton

James is a planthunter and Tania is a garden designer of world wide recognition. They have lived in Spilsbury for 25 years.

Date: 20 Sept 2024 Time: 10.30am for 11.00 Cost: £25 to include refreshments
Facilities: Ample parking. WC. No dogs.

Guided Tour of the Gardens: What a treat!  We will see a very rarely opened amazing garden with Tania present. The garden at Spilsbury Farm is an intriguing mixture of formality and wildness.  An orchard next to the house leads to vistas, focused on ancient oak trees, which are lined with clipped hornbeams blocks and pyramids in long meadow grass. Within this strong framework, Jamie and Tania seem happy to let nature enjoy a controlled riot. The house is approached by a lovely gravel garden planted with Perovskia, Euphorbia myrsinites and Santolina. Borders billow with Eryngiums, Sedums, cardoons, grasses and roses mingle with meadow grasses.  Pots filled with summer annuals dress the terrace and furnish steps. In September we will also be able to see Asters, Colourful willows and colchicums.