WADDESDON PLANT CENTRE

You can buy many of the plants you have seen in the Manor's gardens at the Plant Centre, where in a unique historical setting Waddesdon's own experienced nurserymen cultivate plants to the most exacting standards, and also offer excellent value for money. There's also a wide range of shrubs, trees, herbaceous perennials, topiary and garden-related gifts.

Situated off the A41 to the west of the Manor and by private road off the exit drive.

PLANT CENTRE OPENING TIMES
Open Monday to Saturday 10.00-5.30 and Sunday 10.30-4.30, except Easter Sundays. For further information please call 01296 658586. Light refreshments available.

EVENTS AT THE PLANT CENTRE
Chilli and Tomato Growers' Festival at Waddesdon Plant Centre
Saturday 25 - Monday 27 August
Saturday & Monday 10.00-5.00, Sunday 10.30-4.30
Carnival comes to Waddesdon with its first ever Chilli and Tomato Growers' Festival. Savour the flavours and aromas of chillies and tomatoes from small producers throughout the country, and see (and taste) how chefs use them in everything from ice cream to chocolate! All you'll ever need to know about growing, cooking and eating chillies and tomatoes, plus thirst quenching local beer, and live latin rhythm music.
Admission free

To book any of these events please call 01296 653226 Monday to Friday, 10.00-4.00 or email bookings.waddesdon@nationaltrust.org.uk

Action Medical Research Christmas Bazaar in the Glasshouse at Waddesdon Plant Centre
Thursday 22 November
10.30-3.30
Action medical Research has held a Christmas Bazaar in Buckinghamshire for over twenty years and 2007 will be the first year at Waddesdon Plant Centre. Overy thirty exciting and different stalls including jewellery, seasonal food, presents for men, beauty products, stocking fillers, gifts for teenagers, silver, silk flowers, books, girly gifts, cashmere, clothes and much, much more. This is a fabulous opportunity to buy all your Christmas presents under one roof. Lunch, coffee and teas will be available next door in the new Plant Centre Café.

Entrance £4.00. All proceeds to Action Medical Research. For more information on this charity visit www.action.org.uk

Normal admission charges apply for entry to Waddesdon Manor and Gardens.

WADDESDON PLANT CENTRE WINS GOLD MEDAL AT HAMPTON COURT PALACE FLOWER SHOW 2007!
Waddesdon Plant Centre were awarded a Gold Medal at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2007 for the category 'Inspiring Spaces' with their garden called "Scent & Edibility".

The Inspiring Spaces category is back after its debut in 2006. The category was open exclusively to garden centres and other professional organisations. It aims to demonstrate creative ways to enliven small and awkward spaces in the garden with imaginative container planting. All of the Inspiring Spaces gardens were 2m x 2m in size.

The Waddesdon Plant Centre 'Scent & Edibility' garden aimed to portray some of the formality of Waddesdon using edible plants, flowers and fruits, and demonstrate that even with the smallest plot you can achieve a productive and sensual space to excite the senses. Terracotta pots are planted with fragrant plants such as lavender and rosemary, under-planted with trailing tomatoes, nasturtium, beans and viola, and spaces filled with chilli peppers, exotic leaf lettuce, strawberries, bush tomatoes and basil. A low fragrant rosemary hedge surrounds the space, and two chamomile plants cut through the area. All plants are grown using natural pest control and in peat-free compost.

From Friday 13 July the garden will be on display at Waddesdon Plant Centre.

For more information on Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2007 and 'Inspiring Spaces' Click Here