The Garden
Station is a restored Victorian railway station in a woodland
garden in Hexham in beautiful Northumberland which offers courses in
Gardening, the Environment, Art, Botanical Art and Willow Weaving. In
addition to the delightful garden there is a Woodland Walk, Art Exhibitions
and a small selection of artworks and unusual items unique to The Garden
Station shop.
The Garden Station
is a unique place which combines the history of railways past with the
pleasures of gardens present. For such a small and humble country railway
station (1867), the building is a particularly pretty one, with a style
and atmosphere which seems to be all of its own. Single story, wooden,
green painted, it still has many of its original features intact.
THE WOODLAND
GARDEN and Leaning Shed Cafe are open to visitors
Tues to Sunday from May - August 10 - 5. The cafe offers delicious home
made cakes and a small selection of lunchtime refreshments reflecting
a passion for locally grown and produced food. Fresh ground coffee of
course.
A selection of
hardy and interesting perennial plants from the best northern nurseries
is avaiable as well as a number of woodland plants propagated here at
The Garden Station.
THE STATION
BUILDING is fully open every Saturday, Sunday & Bank Holiday
from May - August 10 - 5 with additional tea coffee and cake and waitress
service. Admission is free and small groups are welcome by appointment.
Guided garden tours and tea can be arranged by appointment.
Art: The
summmer exhibition 2007 - In Praise of SHEDS - A celebration of the
private world of sheds with paintings by Northumbrian artists including
Mary Ann Rogers, Enrique Azocar and Birtley Aris.
Textile Artist Paddy
Killer's painted silk voile hangings, originally commissioned for an
exhibition at Belsay Hall, are now on permenant display at The Garden
Station. Paddy's detailed portraits both of plants and the two men who
created the gardens at Belsay Hall, work very well as decorative additions
to the station.
