Rosemary Cottage is situated in the village of Hook. The village has a mild climate, due to the proximity of the river Ouse, which caresses three sides of the village.
Rosemary Cottage is a traditional cottage garden, which is at it very best during the summer months when the garden is filled with the scent of David Austin roses along with a kaleidoscope of colour from the herbaceous perennials.
Teas, scones and homemade cakes are on sale when the garden opens for the National Gardens Scheme.
Thank you to everyone who came to our 2024 opening, we had an incredible day!
Thank you to all of our stallholders and our sponsors, I really appreciate your support.
On my last opening 267 visitors enjoyed the garden, the stalls from local nurseries and the homebaking.
You helped us raise £1200 for the NGS nursing charities.
Rosemary Cottage is located in the quiet village of Hook, some 1.5 miles from Goole in the East Riding of Yorkshire
The garden at Rosemary Cottage wakes up in the spring with a carpet of crocus, daffodils and tulips, the very essence of spring and then fills with colour and scent during the summer as the roses and perennials come into their own.
in the autumn the harvest starts in the productive garden and orchard, with many of the garden areas filling with vibrant autumn colour. In the winter our snuffling hedgehogs start to hibernate in their homes, and my faithful Robin seems to follow me wherever I go…
The Head Gardener at Rosemary Cottage was Jasmine, (2003 – 2022). She watched over the development of the garden, loved stretching out in the sun and was always at my side when I was planting bulbs, perennials and roses. Rosemary Cottage was (and still is) Jasmine’s garden.
Well as 2023 comes to an end….. what do I have planned for 2024?? I’ll mention my next NGS opening in my February blog #watchthisspace in the mean time….. The weather has a impact on how our gardens grow ever changing not just through the seasons but the unpredictability of what the seasons will bring.…
DetailsWell Spring is here….if it would only stop raining. My waterbutts are overflowing and have been emptied twice already over the winter. But following another mild winter everything is flowering early but nature is out of our hands… just gotta go with the flow. My grass could do with a high cut but it’s so…
DetailsAfter a 3 year break and a pandemic behind us I opened my garden on Sunday 29th May 2022 for the National Garden Scheme Yorkshire…. Unsure who or how many would visit… but there was no need to wonder for very long as the visitors arrived…. First couple had travelled Wakefield and not visited before.…
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Howdenshire Magazine have asked me to write a regular column for them about Rosemary Cottage, my first column is all about autumn planting…
Rolawn have asked me to write a blog about opening my garden for the NGS, just click the image to be taken to their website…
When Helen Marsden County Organiser came to visit The Goole Times popped round and wrote this rather lovely piece…
I am delighted to have been appointed Gardening Columnist to Howdenshire Living Magazine
Hook Gardening Club, a welcoming East Yorkshire Gardening Club, simply click on the logo to be whisked through to their website
I am very proud to be able to work with Mires Beck Nursery during the growing season, advising customers and selling plants
As well as sponsoring Hook Gardening Club, many of the plants at Rosemary Cottage come from this amazing plant place
