National Gardens Scheme

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    I picked up this 50 pages booklet in the library a couple of days ago, which is the London edition of the "National Gardens Scheme" (www.ngs.org.uk), meaning the gardens open for charity one or two days a year.
    Most of them are private gardens and sometimes the owner sells some plants.
    I was surprised to see how many are in London, also in areas where one wouldn't expect it. Enough to keep you busy most of the months until the winter!
     
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    Hi miraflores,
    There are also a lot of gardens in Essex in the scheme - ther's a separate book for each county. There are some really good ones in Essex and the thing that a lot of people do is to plan a day out doing a number of them. We just work out a route with a number of gardens on it and do as many as we feel up to doing - with making a stop for a pub lunch on the way :dbgrtmb:.

    If you don't have the book you can do a search for the gardens near you on their website. They give you a number of different ways for doing the search in the top right-hand corner of their front page on the site

    NGS - The National Gardens Scheme. Gardens Open For Charity
     
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    Miraflores, I think you'll be hard pushed to find one on the island.

    Red rag to a bull, I bet you go and check. Only teasing!:heehee:
     
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    I think its a brilliant scheme. And Shiney, what a good idea to do a number together. That way it makes it worth going to the ones further away.
     
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    Good news :) Some of the gardens are opening on Sunday 15th June. It is tickets only and they are available on the NGS website. Social distancing. I'm off to visit a lovely, three acre, garden in a village near me on Sunday. I'm hoping for decent weather but being a hardy soul I'll just be pleased to get out in different surroundings.:spinning:
     
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