On Sunday, 18th May 2025, I'll be returning to the city of my birth, the elegant spa city of Bath, for this spectacularly situated plant fair.
Grade I-listed Claverton Manor is home to the American Museum and is surrounded by expansive gardens designed by my landscaping heroes Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden in the "New American Garden" style. The museum is also home to a replica of Mount Vernon, George Washington's famous house, an arboretum, an amphitheatre, a wilderness trail, and sweeping parkland for further exploration. The manor is located in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and offers sweeping views across the Limpley Stoke Valley.
Do bring a few spare pennies to purchase a Tussie Mussie - a small posy of flowers created by the Museum staff.
Alongside Dan Cooper Garden at this event will be:
- Biocentric Planting Design and Nursery
- The Blooming Wild Plant Nursery
- Buriton Nursery
- CB Plants, Lower Severalls Nursery
- Coastal Succulents, Cacti and Alpines
- Cotswold Garden Flowers
- Green's Leaves
- In Clover
- Long Acre Plants
- Malvern Salvia Collection
- Nature Spaces Plants
- Plants by Ogie Placido
- Potterton's Nursery
- Shadyplants.com
- The Gobbett Nursery
- Triffids Nursery
- Wivey Carnivorous Plants
Sunday, 18th May 2025, 10 am-5 pm
Admission to the gardens and fair is £11 for adults, £7.50 for children aged 5-1, and free for children under 5ree.
Admission to the museum, exhibition, garden, and fair is £ 16.50 for adults, £9.50 for children aged 5-1, and free for children under 5. Free visitor parking is available on-site, including spaces for Blue Badge holders. Overflow parking is on the University of Bath campus, a short walk from the site. Visitors may drive to the turning point site to collect their plant purchases.
Lunches and refreshments will be available from the Garden Café and Terrace. Picnics are welcome throughout the grounds.
Claverton Manor, Bath, BA2 7BD.
www.americanmuseum.org