Once a year we hold a Garden Party in a location where there are follies, sometimes very old, sometimes very new. We wander round the grounds, meet new people, see the buildings, then meet up for Pimms, sandwiches and cakes and to finish off, a specially built cake depicting one of the follies in the garden. We also enjoy dressing up for the occasion. Here are the locations of all the past parties along with the relevant cake.
Portmeirion (by Peter Godfrey)
Eridge Park (by Peter Godfrey)
Rousham House (by Peter Godfrey)
Iford Manor Wiltshire (by Trowbridge Cake Icing Circle)
Henbury Hall, Cheshire (by Claire & Alan Terrill)
Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire
Hawkstone Park, Shropshire (by Peter Godfrey)
Porter’s Lodge, Cavenham, Norfolk
Seend Manor, Wiltshire (by Peter Godfrey)
Flaxbourne Garden Bedfordshire
Highclere, Hampshire
Stowe, Buckinghamshire
Hope Valley, Shropshire
Hall Barn, Beaconsfield
Wotton House, Wotton Underwood
Horton Menagerie, Northamptonshire
Pelham Place, Newton Valance, Hampshire
Wentworth Castle, South Yorkshire
Barwick Park, Yeovil, Somerset
Consall Hall, Staffordshire
Stancombe Park, Gloucestershire
Hartley Whitney, Hampshire
Forbidden Corner, Tupgill, North Yorkshire
Abbots Ripon, Huntingdonshire
Claremont, Esher, Surrey
Wotton House, Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire
Wrest Park, Bedfordshire
Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
Rousham, Oxfordshire
Busbridge Lakes, Surrey
Hawkstone Park, Shropshire
Stancombe Park, Gloucestershire
Shugborough, Staffordshire
Stowe, Buckinghamshire
West Green House, Hartley Witney, Hampshire