Chantry Walled Garden

What’s at the Walled Garden?

Chantry Walled Garden is a heritage walled garden in a public park, with flower borders and glasshouses where we propagate and grow for our plant nursery. Our base is Nursery Cottage, where there is an accessible courtyard garden with specially-designed beds for wheelchair users. At the walled garden you can learn skills relevant to the horticultural industry as well as enjoy maintaining a garden full of history.

Learn about Horticulture

A range of horticultural activities are on offer, in the safe, welcoming environment of the walled garden, at a pace to suit you:

Help maintain our flower borders full of heritage varieties
Propagate and grow on plants on our plant nursery
Help organise our stock and maintain plants for sale in peak condition
Meet and greet members of the public and help them pick a plant for their garden
Work in our courtyard garden with plants especially selected for dry conditions
If you have mobility issues or disabilities, you can enjoy gardening in our accessible borders. Please note, you will need to attend with your required level of support.

There are a range of opportunities on offer at Chantry Walled Garden

Projects and Services

OPENING HOURS:

Tuesdays and Thursdays 9.00am until 2.30pm

Plant Nursery Sales

Tuesday and Thursdays 10am to 2pm

Saturdays in May and June ONLY 10am to 2pm

Grow Your Future at Chantry Walled Garden – join our FREE 12-week courses

Find out more here

Visit our Plant Nursery – to pick out the perfect plants for your garden or community garden space

Find out more here

Chantry Walled Garden Spring Plant Fair on 7th April. For more details, please visit our What’s On page.

Location: Chantry Walled Garden, Chantry Park, Hadleigh Road, Ipswich, IP2 0BS

The nearest public car park is through the Park entrance on Hadleigh Road – turn right at top of driveway as you face the mansion. After parking, walk along the path round to right, past the stable blockkeeping the bowls pavilion on your left. Keep straight on, passing Ipswich Borough Council gate entrance (DISABLED ACCESS ONLY); you will walk along the outer wall of IBC yard with a flower border and green iron gate on right (ignore this entrance). Go through wooden orchard gate straight ahead, and you will find a boardwalk leading to a second green iron gate. Turn in here and turn right towards greenhouses. Follow shingle path round; if no-one is in greenhouses, go through double wooden gates on right, and turn left to Nursery Cottage.

DISABLED ACCESS:

Please turn down through five-bar gate onto IBC access road. Please park in bays outside Nursery Cottage, bumper outwards, and proceed along path marked with yellow paint from where you cross the road into the Cottage Garden. FOR ADVICE – PLEASE ASK A MEMBER OF OUR TEAM WHO WILL BE HAPPY TO HELP. For further advice and help, please phone Ian 07599 951060 or Susannah 07530 407302.

Reaching us by public transport: Bus

Ipswich Buses

Suffolk Passenger Transport

Getting Involved

For more information contact ActivGardens Development Manager susannah@activlives.org.uk mobile 07530 407302 or ActivLives Office 01473 345350

I retired at 50 – it all
boils down to nothing. I felt a bit
useless; it feels as if you’ve been
chucked on the rubbish heap. So,
I started coming here. I knew
nothing about flowers – stuff them
in the ground and that’s it. I know
all about veg but nothing about
flowers. So, I’ve learnt such a lot
coming over here and finding out
what they need to grow. I like
seeing all the flowers out and
how pretty they are. It’s very
stimulating and good to work as a
team. It’s very peaceful.

CWG volunteer, aged 73

“It gets me up in the mornings more. It relieves anxiety – I don’t feel so depressed. It’s helped my confidence in the workplace – I’m not so angry. I’ve taken some knowledge back to the
work environment and it’s given me confidence in community work and plant knowledge. I’ve got more self-esteem and confidence. I’ve met more people down here – I don’t feel so isolated.”