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"New owners Sue and Dave Beesley are delighted to welcome you to Bluebell Cottage Gardens and Lodge Lane Nursery. See ‘News’ to find out more.."

Lodge Lane Nursery opens for the season on March 18th 2009. Opening days Wed-Sun 10-5. Bluebell Cottage Gardens opens on Good Friday, 10th April. Join us for Veg Week, 1-5th April for demonstrations, seeds, plants and advice on growing your own home produce.

Looking for a day out for your group? Bluebell Cottage Gardens is a perfect half day visit. Click 'Groups' on the right hand menu for full details

Bluebell Cottage Gardens and Lodge Lane Nursery are situated midway between Warrington and Northwich in Cheshire. Lodge Lane Nursery is an RHS partner nursery and specialises in hardy herbaceous perennials, with a typical stock of over 1500 varieties. The adjacent 1.5 acre cottage garden is open to the public from the 10th April 2009. The gardens are next to the Trent and Mersey canal and are just a short walk from the River Weaver making it the perfect base for country walks.

Together with the 3 acre wildflower meadow and 2 acre bluebell woods, the gardens offer an ideal half day out for garden lovers and non-gardeners alike. Refreshments are available in the nursery and there is plenty of seating throughout the gardens.

Horticultural events are held throughout the year in association with the RHS, including photography, painting and propagation workshops. Sue is a regular speaker at horticultural and social groups.

We welcome group bookings and provide a package of access, refreshments and guided tours to suit.

For more information, select a link from the menu on the right, send an email or call 01928 713718.

Sue's latest blog post

Glut and gluttony

Thursday, June 25, 2009

How our mediaeval ancestors survived to breed us is a miracle. What did they live on between February and June? Without freezers? If you were poor with just a strip of land? OK, I know some of the answers, but it's only when you make a real attempt at veg self-sufficiency that the challenge of feeding a family on a small plot becomes apparent. Yes, we've been picking leaves and lifting the odd potato plant, but it's only in this past fortnight that serious quantities of food have been forthcoming. The glut is here - all at once as usual and despite some attempts at succession sowing. We should be freezing/bottling/pickling etc. but it's more straightforward to give it away to family, staff and travelling monks, if you can find one.
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Keep up to date with new developments at Bluebell Cottage – Sue keeps a regular behind-the-scenes blog. Click here for Sue's new Lodge Lane Nursery blog.