The Gardens at Cottage Farm Barns, Spring and Early Summer

Despite the months of almost no rainfall (great for our holiday guests but hard on the plants), the gardens at Cottage Farm Barns have put on a remarkably good show, through the spring and early summer. Golden Lion Barn has a brand new courtyard garden, which is now beginning to get established and the bedding around Inn Keeper's Store - just getting into its second year - seems to have been there forever.

Spring and early summer are great times to be at Cottage Farm Barns, but one thing we have found out, our guests need to book early because we seem to get booked up really quickly.

Snowdrop Walks Walsingham

Walsingham, just two miles down the road has been a place of pilgrimage from before the Normans arrived. Its abbey and little streets, crowded with old houses is well worth a wander at any time, but without a doubt February is Walsingham's month. Literally carpets of snowdrops, mingled with aconites have naturalised throughout the Abbey woodland and along the banks of the River Stifkey which runs through the Abbey grounds. Seeing the first flowers of spring in such quantity this is a woodland walk that stays with you for years.
The snowdrop walk Walsingham makes a great early spring cottage holiday at Cottage Farm Barns - www.cottagefarmbarns.co.uk