A COTTAGE garden will be open in Upper Tysoe.

The garden is open from 2pm until 6pm in Shipston Road on Saturday and Sunday, and is popular for its windmill-topped hills and enclosed by walls built during the 1930s.

Sue and Mike Sanderson’s one-acre garden was restored in 2009 from an overgrown bramble and ivy-smothered field.

Now an organically lush garden with a living roof, knot garden, extraordinary cupped “Jazz” honeysuckle, espaliered fruit trees, four greenhouses and large vegetable plots, it provides all the Sandersons’ garden produce for the table, with the exception of bananas.

There is much to interest children here with puzzle trail maps, a yew “Rabbitillar”, combining topiaried rabbit and caterpillar, flowerpot men sculptures, and wooden sheep Baaabara and Ramsay.

Admission costs £4 with children free.