Lois Ann Forbes , a husband and wife team of Scottish and American respectively travel authors and admirers of botanical and other interesting and unusual gardens. Lois is a member of the Royal Horticultural Society . Both came out on a rainy Sunday morning to give us a much appreciated mid morning tour and coffee afterwards in the Guildhall in late May 2000. The Garden is open to the public on Thursday and Sunday from 2 to 5 pm from June to mid September. In fine weather, refreshments are served.
Admission is free.
Tours by parties can be arranged at other times of the year. Telephone 01473 827752. For those who have not yet been there, Hadleigh in Suffolk is in the middle of a roughly square area bordered by Bury St. Edmunds on the top left, Ipswich on the top right, Lavenham and Sudbury to the left, Flatford to the right and Colchester to the south. During the 15th and early 16th centuries Hadleigh was possibly the most important and richest of the Suffolk woolen cloth towns. This wealth is shown in the many medieval buildings surviving today in the town.