What better way of spending a few hours on a sunny day, than in a beautiful garden setting, whilst raising money for the National Garden Scheme nursing and caring charities?
Sunday 1st June, 11.00am to 4.30pm
Capability Barn, Hoveringham NG14 7JH
Imaginatively planted large country garden with something new each year. Wisteria, Magnolia, rhodos, and apple blossom greet June. Established trees, shrubs and shady paths give a charming country setting. Large vegetable and fruit gardens with orchard and flower meadow completes the picture.
Saturday 14th June, 1.00pm to 4.30pm
Park Farm, Crink Lane, Southwell NG25 0TJ
A three-acre garden noted for its extensive variety of trees, shrubs and perennials, many rare and unusual. Long luxuriant, herbaceous, borders, rose archers, Alpine screed garden, large wildlife pond and area of woodland with acid, loving plants. Spectacular views of the minster across a wildflower meadow and ha ha.
Sunday 15th June, 1.00pm to 5.00pm
Hollinside, 252 Diamond Avenue, Kirkby in Ashfield NG17 7NA
A formal front garden with terraced lawns and mixed borders lead to a shadier area with ferns, camelias, clematis, hydrangeas and other flowering shrubs. The rear garden has mixed borders with many roses. A wildlife pond, a wildflower meadow and a Victorian style greenhouse.
Sunday 15th June, 1.00pm to 4.30pm
Patchings Art Centre, Oxton Road, Calverton NG14 6NU
Patching is set in 50 acres with a visitor centre and galleries. It is a haven for artists under tranquil setting of countryside and garden walks for visitors.
Thursday 19th June, 10.30am to 3.00pm
Rhubarb Farm, Hardwick Street, Langwith NG20 9DR
This two-acre horticultural social enterprise provides training and volunteering opportunities to 60 ex-offenders, drug and alcohol misusers, older people, school students, people with mental and physical ill health and learning disabilities. There are eight polytunnels, 100 hens, pigs, donkey, and a Shetland pony. A plethora of garden-related buildings and gardens with copious vegetable planting and plants for sale.
Saturday 21st June, 1.00pm to 4.30pm
Combined opening – Hill’s Farm, Edingley NG22 8BU and The Old Vicarage, Halam Hill, Halam NG22 8AX
Hill’s Farm was created with passion to produce a delightful walk – six acres of Nottinghamshire hay meadow carpeted with colourful wildflowers, ragged Robin, yellow rattle, pyramidal orchids. Hay taken in July is fed to the native beef Shorthorn cattle (some of the cows are in adjoining fields). This is a meadow visible from the farm path, mown through for walking and admiring.
The Old Vicarage, Halam is a two-acre organic hillside garden that has matured into a much admired, popular landscape garden, with beautiful views. New bottom garden planting and design.
Sunday 22nd June, 2.00pm to 5.00pm
Ossington House, Moorhouse Road, Ossington NG23 6LD
Large vicarage garden redesigned in 1960 and again in 2014. Chestnuts, lawns, formal beds, woodland walk, poolside planting, orchard. Terraces, yews, grasses, ferns, herbaceous perennials, roses and kitchen garden.
Saturday 28th June and Sunday 29th June, 2.00pm to 5.00pm
Glebe Steading, Gonalston NG14 7JA
Welcome to a garden designed around a small pool with full brightly-coloured borders and plants reminiscent of the owner’s childhood in Kenya, mingled with grasses for a looser feel. Flowering perennials attract pollinators and are left standing tall. A hillside of 35 trees with coppice / orchard and small kitchen garden. A small stream runs down the slope with a botanical medicinal border. Small natural pool with summer house.
Sunday 29th June
Norwell Gardens, Newark NG23 6JX
This is the 29th year that Norwell has opened a range of different, very appealing gardens, all making superb use of the beautiful backdrop of a quintessential English countryside village, including a garden nursery of national renown. The beautiful mediaeval church and its peaceful churchyard with grass labyrinth will be open for quiet contemplation.
For more see www.ngs.org.uk.