TOUCHWOOD is an intimate, exuberant plantsman’s garden, most items grown from seed.  Carrie is a plantaholic who gardens in the cottage style in order to cram more plants into a small area!  Keen on traditional cottage garden favourites, she also has many unusual and rare plants, mainly grown from seed.  There is an abundance of climbers, herbaceous perennials, annuals, biennials, bulbs, herbs, and vegetables, with shrubs, ferns and grasses. Containers (mainly alpines) and archways increase the available growing space.

Touchwood has good interest from March until the frosts, although it is at its peak in May to June. The NCCPG National Collections of Aquilegia vulgaris cultivars and of Aquilegia  hybrids flower in May and June. The collection is usually at its flowering peak during the second half of May (this can vary by 3 weeks, depending on the weather), although a visit any time in May and early June should see a good selection of the Aquilegias in flower.  Aquilegias (also known as granny’s bonnets or columbines) have been grown for many centuries in British gardens.  Their wide colour range and their complexity of form, has been embellished by newer attributes of coloured foliage, and scent. Plants and seeds for sale.