Blooming marvellous! Gardens opening for charity weekend
A number of gardens are opening their gates to visitors to raise funds for charity this weekend.
Visitors can explore Cruckfield House in Shrewsbury on Saturday as part of the National Garden Scheme.
It features a three acre south facing garden, which is formally designed and informally and intensively planted with a variety of unusual herbaceous plants, with species trees and shrubs which surround a pond with bog and plants.
There is also an ornamental kitchen garden with outbuildings, a rose and peony walk, courtyard fountain garden and large shrubbery and a clematis collection.
A new three-acre garden will be opening up to visitors on Sunday.
The garden, at 2 School Cottages, in Shrewsbury, is set on a slope with steps and inclines.
There is a mixture of various herbaceous beds, shrubs, trees, sunken garden and formal planting.
Visitors can explore an orchard, soft fruit cage, greenhouse, and see chickens and pigs.
An award-winning garden will be open to visitors on Sunday in Telford.
Windy Ridge is a village garden in Telford. There are more than 1,000 species in the garden.
The grass and perennial gravel garden has created a lot of interest and versions are now appearing in gardens all over the country.
Last year, the National Garden Scheme donated a record £3 million and the major individual donations were to Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie, Hospice UK, Carers Trust, Queen’s Nursing Institute, Parkinson’s UK, Perennial, MS Society and the National Autistic Society.
For more information visit ngs.org.uk
Gardens open this weekend:
Saturday, June 2, 2pm to 6pm: Cruckfield House, Shoothill, Ford, Shrewsbury, SY5 9NR. Admission is £6 for adults and free for children. For more information contact Geoffrey Cobley on 01743 850222.
Sunday, June 3, 1pm to 4pm: 2 School Cottages, Hook-a-Gate, Shrewsbury, SY5 8BQ. Admission is £4 for adults and free for children.
Sunday, June 3, 12pm to 5pm: Windy Ridge, Church Lane, Little Wenlock, Telford, Shropshire, TF6 5BB. Admission is £5 for adults and free for children. For more information contact George and Fiona Chancellor on 01952 507675.
