SULGRAVE GARDENS and the NATIONAL GARDENS SCHEME


Mill Hollow Barn Garden

In 1927 the National Gardens Scheme was founded to raise money for the nurses of the Queen’s Institute of District Nursing, now known as the Queen’s Nursing Institute, by opening 600 gardens of quality and interest to the public. Today the QNI still receives funding from the NGS along with a whole range of other national nursing, caring and gardening charities.

Now, as a charitable trust, around 3,500 gardens (mostly private) open every year in England and Wales through the hard work and dedication of garden owners and volunteers of the NGS. More than £20 million has been raised for the beneficiary charities with some £1.8 million being donated in 2004.

Photo galleries are available for the following gardens which have taken part in this scheme:

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)

Click on any of these to see photos of the gardens.

PLEASE NOTE: THESE ARE ALL PRIVATE GARDENS NOT NORMALLY OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

For further information on the National Gardens Scheme, visit www.ngs.org.uk

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