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Discover Norfolk’s NGS Secret Garden Trail this Summer

Follow the Norfolk National Gardens Scheme Secret Garden trail this summer. Many of the gardens hold the mystery as in the book “The Secret Garden” and admission for children is often free. Parents and children are invited to peep over the garden gates and explore. A lot of the gardens have many features that interest children, woodland walks, nature conservation, exotic, tropical gardens, vegetable plots, unusual grasses and the special secret garden look.

July hosts new NGS gardens galore in Norfolk

Now is the time of year when gardens in Norfolk are reaching their summer peak. With warm sunny weather forecast take the opportunity to enjoy the splendours and sights of some truly fabulous new gardens and at the same time help raise much needed funds for the charities that the National Gardens Scheme supports. July brings the interest of a new NGS open garden nearly every week of the month welcoming visitors into them. Garden enthusiasts are spoilt for choice with many other regular gardens open providing a garden trail of interest across the county.

Norwich, a NGS Garden trail

Norwich is known as a city of history, culture, shopping and a tourism destination. Now it is becoming known for its collection of gardens of quality and character and interest as another new garden opens in Norwich this year for the National gardens Scheme. Norfolk a county known for its magnificent rural gardens and its great horticultural product now has an urban area that has NGS city gardens to visit. They are all accessible by public transport. Discover what is over the garden gate and hidden behind the city’s walls!

Spectacular Norfolk garden opens for charity

Mr & Mrs Hambro, owners of a spectacular garden in Norfolk will be throwing open their doors on the 20th June in a bid to raise money for charity. Opening for the worthwhile causes of the National Gardens Scheme (NGS) they are also donating the refreshment and stall money raised to the local charity Quidenham Hospice. Every year the NGS raise over £2 million for Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Crossroads Care and Help the Hospices, The Queen’s Nursing Institute, The Royal Fund for Gardeners’ Children, NGS gardeners’ careership (the National Trust) and Perennial - Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Society. Over 1000 local charities are nominated yearly by garden owners.

NGS Afternoon Holly Tea by the Norfolk Broads

Visitors to a Norfolk National Gardens Scheme open garden are enticed to sample “Afternoon Holly Tea” at How Hill Farm Garden. Owned and tended by Peter Boardman, he has created three separate gardens here dating back as far as 1968. Peter opens his garden for the NGS on the 23rd May 2010 (1pm – 5pm), admission £3.50 with children free.

Visit a Norfolk NGS garden or two!

With many magnificent gardens open this year, the National Gardens Scheme in Norfolk is enticing visitors to plan a garden day out and venture further afield to benefit from gardens within easy reach of each other, opening on the same day. Garden enthusiasts are encouraged to down tools and enjoy the results of others hard work and sit and enjoy the views and peace in these wonderful gardens. Gardens surrounding halls and farmhouses and small ones in towns and villages, can all be found to provide that garden day out of ones choice.

Sit On An NGS Garden Seat This Spring

The Norfolk National Gardens Scheme is encouraging visitors to “sit on a NGS garden seat this spring!” It is an opportunity for garden enthusiasts to down their own garden tools and admire other people’s hard work, involved in creating these private gardens. Since 1927 gardens of quality, character and interest have opened to raise money for the nursing, caring and gardening charities of the scheme. This year seventy five gardens in Norfolk, with fourteen new ones for 2010, all of which have the wow factor, are open, inviting you to sit back and enjoy the view.

Dining Out In NGS Style

The Norfolk National Gardens Scheme Garden Party is one Summer party not to be missed. The Old Cottage, Colby Corner invites visitors to a enchanting musical evening on the 10th July 2010, 6pm until dusk. Supper, drinks and music will ensure the evening will flow.

This is the first time that a Norfolk NGS garden has provided such a event. The host, garden owner Stuart Clarke is offering the scenic garden dining ( a two course meal) to raise funds for the worthwhile charities of the National Gardens Scheme.

Follow the Norfolk Open Gardens Easter Trail

Enjoy the picturesque bright yellow heads appearing among the woodland walks at Gayton Hall on the 28th March. This is one of the first Norfolk National Gardens Scheme Easter gardens. Nearly six hundred visitors from in and around the county enjoyed a bright spring day last year. With the launch of the garden lovers bible “The Yellow Book” and the local Norfolk NGS Guide you will find garden enthusiasts follow open gardens, old and new ones, with keen interest. For the families that enjoy the experience admission for children is often free. This Easter the Norfolk NGS garden trail will not only let you peep over the private garden gates, but will help entice you to explore the beautiful county of Norfolk to discover them!

Weather Presenter Forecasts Great Norfolk Gardens in 2010

Despite the snow, BBC weather presenter Julie Reinger forecast a great “Open Gardens” season for the National Gardens Scheme in Norfolk in 2010 when she was at How Hill Farm, Ludham to launch the 2010 Norfolk NGS Guide. Over fifty new and regular garden openers, nurseries, sponsors, and tourism officials enjoyed the picturesque scenery at the presentation of the 2010 Norfolk NGS Guide by kind invitation of owner Peter Boardman. This included the opportunity to walk around the garden with the tradition of tea and home - made cakes, made by the NGS county organisers. No matter what the weather gardens will entice visitors to a great garden day out while supporting the worthwhile charities of the Scheme.

Garden Lovers “Yellow Book” Features Norfolk Garden

It is a great accolade to be accepted as an open garden for the National Gardens Scheme in itself. These gardens are recognised as of high quality,character and interest. However this year a Norfolk garden image, Manor House Farm, Wellingham, taken by a famous garden photographer, Marianne Majerus, is on the front cover of the National Gardens Scheme’s famous “Yellow Book”, the garden lovers bible.

Robin and Elisabeth Ellis of Manor House Farm, Wellingham opened their garden for the ngs for the first time in 2006 and now open just once a year in June. It is a charming four acre garden surrounding an attractive farmhouse. It possesses many interesting features: formal quadrants with obelisks, 'Hot Spot' with grasses and gravel, a small arboretum with specimen trees, a lime walk, vegetable parterre and rose tunnel. An unusual 'Taj' garden with old-fashioned roses, tree peonies, lilies and pond has been designed and planted in what was once the farmyard, using the surrounding old walls to produce a microclimate.

Lexham Hall Snowdrop Walk - A Sign of Spring

It is a Norfolk tradition that has attracted many followers over the years. It is a “Snowdrop Walk” at Lexham Hall, nr Litcham, launching the National Gardens Scheme “Open Garden” season on Sunday February 7th (11 – 4), followed by Bagthorpe Hall on February 14th, (A Valentines Day Walk).

When the first snowdrops start to appear it is a sign winter is finally coming to an end. So what better way to celebrate the change in seasons than by garden visiting. Not only do the snowdrops provide a ray of hope that spring is on its way but , each year money is raised through the National Gardens Scheme for many worthwhile charities.

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