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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. 

On the 1st August “The Norfolk Secret Garden Trail” entices you behind the gates of Bergh Apton Manor or through the walled gardens of Holme Hale Hall.  Or for those who enjoy the tropical climates disappear among the jungle garden in Will Giles famous Exotic garden in the city of Norwich.

On the 8th August “New” garden Dunbheagan, Westfield  invites visitors to explore it’s one and a third acres of flower garden richly planted for year round interest and still providing oodles of colour into late summer.  It has rare and unusual plants, ponds, rockery, island beds, exotic bed, ‘Heaven and Hell’, gravel beds, carnivorous plants. Paths and stepping stones invite you to explore more.  Music from Reepham ensemble will provide a tranquil backgpund to a garden day out.

Also on the 8th August, Severals Grange, Wood Norton shows the perfect example of how colour, shape and form can be created by the use of foliage plants.   Plovers Hill, Strumpshaw provides a garden of contrasts with an award winning orangery surrounding an 18th century house. Open on the same day and on the 22nd August, Chestnut Farm, West Beckham  entices you to enjoy the exuberance of summer, including herbaceous borders, summer flowering trees and shrubs spread over three acres to explore.

Norfolk NGS County organiser Anthea Foster said “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 gardens and at the same time help raise much needed funds for the charities that the National Gardens Scheme supports.  Families and garden enthusiasts are spoilt for choice with not only new garden Dunbheagon but many other regular gardens open providing a garden trail of interest across the county”.