Open Garden Event. Refreshments and homemade cakes on sale by the British Red Cross Bedfordshire. Wander the grounds of Southill Park, an historical listed building in the Palladian style and remodelled in the 19th Century., surrounded by a landscape park designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown in 1777. It includes extensive ornamental gardens, including mature trees and flowering shrubs, herbaceous borders, a formal rose garden,sunken garden, ponds and a kitchen garden. A large conservatory houses the tropical collection. Garden ownrs Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whitbread.