This weekend a selection of gardens will be open to visit for the Nottinghamshire National Garden Scheme.
On Saturday, June 8 there will be a combined opening of Hills Farm in Edingley and The Old Vicarage in Halam Hill, Halam.
From 1pm to 4.30pm both gardens will be open to the public.
Hills Farm was created with a passion to produce a walk in six acres of Nottinghamshire hay meadow, carpeted with colourful wildflowers on a mixed organic farm.
The Old Vicarage is a two-acre mature and much-admired hillside garden with a wildlife pond to complement the planting. Beautiful views across open countryside and a new area of planting at the bottom of the garden.
It includes wheelchair access, plants for sale, parking and refreshments. It is dog friendly.
On Sunday, June 9 the Home Farm House in Keyworth and the Rose Cottage in Keyworth will offer a combined opening from 12noon to 5pm.
Home Farmhouse is a large garden behind an old farm near the village centre, combining ornamental wilderness, turf mounds and wildlife ponds with clipped yew hedges and mature trees. Roses adorn the cart shed and in the old garden, more roses and perennial borders with an orchard.
It will have plants for sale and refreshments available.
Rose Cottage is described as a heavily planted heaven, with colourful wildlife friendly plants, a small cottage garden with many different planting zones.
Paintings and crafts by the garden owner will be on sale.
This year, the Hoveringham Village Gardens in Hoveringham will open seven gardens to the public this Sunday, June 9 from 11am to 4.30pm.
Five of the village gardens will be joining the National Garden Scheme for the first time.
The National Garden Scheme gives visitors access to over 3,500 exceptional private gardens in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, and raises money for some of the UK’s most loved nursing and health charities through admissions, teas and cake.
The National Garden Scheme has donated more than £70 million to its beneficiary charities, and in 2023 made donations of over £3.4 million.
Founded in 1927 to support district nurses, we are now the most significant charitable funder of nursing in the UK and their beneficiaries include Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie, Hospice UK and The Queen’s Nursing Institute.
It also funds projects which promote gardens and gardening as therapy, and in 2017, it launched the annual Gardens and Health Week to raise awareness of the topic.
The funding also supports the training of gardeners and offers respite to horticultural workers who have fallen on difficult times.
