On Sunday 18th June, ten Sulgrave gardens were open to the public in aid of charity, under the National Gardens Scheme. Nationally, over the last 90 years this scheme has raised more than £50m for nursing, caring and gardening charities The gardens open to visitors were: Allotment Gardens, Church Cottage, Eagle House, Forge Cottage, Mill Hollow Barn, Rectory Farm, Sulgrave Manor, Sunnymead, Threeways and The Watermill. The day being exceptionally warm, sensible animals sought cool places to snooze the day away, as can be seen above and in the first pictures in the rest of this entry:
From early afternoon, a stream of visitors made for the tea garden at Asby House for shade and refreshment.
Looking after baby while mummy pours the tea.
Plant sales.
Visitors doing the rounds were accompanied by the scents and sights of the hedgerows.
Not exactly “gardeners’ delight but beautiful for all that!
RECTORY FARM
SULGRAVE MANOR
The Blomfield Rose Garden.
THE ALLOTMENT GARDENS, TOW RISE
The village community shop, especially open for the event, did a brisk trade in drinks and ice creams.
THE WATERMILL
MILL HOLLOW BARN
CHURCH COTTAGE
SUNNYMEAD
THREEWAYS
See this wisteria exactly one month earlier!
Admiring the swift nesting boxes.
FORGE COTTAGE
EAGLE HOUSE
Sulgrave Gardens Open Day 2015
Sulgrave Gardens Open Day 2013
Sulgrave Gardens Open Day 2011
Sulgrave Gardens Open Day in 2009.
Photo galleries are also available for the following gardens which took part in the scheme in 2007:
Church Cottage, Church Street (Hywel and Ingram Lloyd)
Ferns, Helmdon Road (George and Julie Metcalfe)
Mill Hollow Barn (David Thompson)
The Old Stocks (Mr and Mrs Robin Prior)
Sulgrave Manor Herb Garden (The Herb Society as Sulgrave Manor)
The Old Farmhouse (Peter and Moo Mordaunt)
Threeways (Dr and Mrs D Lewis)
Greenfields (Mrs S Harding)