Open GardensComments from our members

A stunning garden with lots for everyone. My children particularly enjoyed the bamboo jungley bit and the senses gardens. I will certainly go back and the children are already begging me to take them back there.

This garden is the private garden of Corseside Nursery. It is open twice this year :-
1st June 11am-3pm, in aid of the South Pembrokeshire Hospital.
13th September 11am-3pm in aid of The British Red Cross
entrance £2 adults children welcome and free.
refreshments available.

This garden overlooks the Irish sea and benefits from a mild winter climate. This enables many tender plants to be planted in the ground which are left to the elements. These enclude many aeonium, lampranthus and other succulents. The owners are a welsh family of three generations and the garden represents this. There is a strong environmental ethos with an emphasis on recycling. With 1 1/2 acres to wander around, fantastic views of the sea, and a warm welome waiting for you.

Excellent collection of snowdrops, from memory gardens are open Saturday and Sunday throughout February for the Snowdrops and other times of the year. Gardens are registered with the RHS Open Gardens scheme

I returned to this garden today as it has now re-opened. It is obviously acid soil, as there are plenty of beautiful Camellias, Rhododendrons and large Skimmias. There are tiny plants by your feet to admire as well. Lovely Hellebores, Fritillaries and Narcissi. Last but not least, a small but well-stocked Nursery to browse in!

Looking to go over the first May bank holiday and looking forward to it as I have just been to the Daffodil day at Wisley and that was good even at this time of year!

Clough Williams Ellis's surreal village. The gardens are extensive if not manicured. There are hydrangeas as some grow rhodies and paths that explore the garden leading to Japanese lakes, sea views and other gems. We had a super day at Portmeirion.

A stunning recreation of a garden that was lost. There are stunning herbaceous borders, a myriad espalliered apple trees and of course the wonderful iconic parterres. Well worth a visit.

Private garden open for charity
Open days in 2008:

May 10 Saturday (Walsall Deaf People’s Centre)
May 11 Sunday (ngs/Yellow Book & 20% Walsall Heart Care)
May 17 Saturday (Epilepsy Charities)
May 18 Sunday (ngs/Yellow Book & 20% Walsall Heart Care)

July 27 Sunday (Walsall National Trust)

August 9 Saturday (Samaritans of Walsall and District)
August 10 Sunday (ngs/Yellow Book & 20% Walsall Heart Care)

10am - 6pm every open day
Admission £3, children free (proceeds to named charities)
Tea and biscuits extra
Note: There are some steps. Toilet at garden level.

S-facing 1/3 acre, suburban garden, gently sloping to arboretum, some steps. For all seasons and age groups. 200 acers, 350 azaleas, bright clipped conifers, shrubs provide back drop for spring bulbs, perennials, summer bedding. Many 'rooms' and themes incl contrast of red, blue and yellow. Jungle, oriental pagoda, water features. Winner Daily Mail National Garden Competition 2007. Winner Walsall in Bloom 2006. Featured on ITV Central News

The house of Pitmuies is a private garden near Forfar. The garden comprises formal vegetable gardens, lawns and borders of stunning flowering shrubs and herbaceous perennials. There is also a charming woodland walk along the river bank through beech woods and up to a loch by the house. I think for me the herbaceous borders were the biggest treat. They were phenomenal.

I went to visit this garden in 2007,And it was well worth the visit,There are lots or areas of great interest,The plants are all very healthy,And they have a rose walk,which is outstanding,i will take some pics of that this year.

A hidden garden of superlatives just ten minutes north west of Okehampton and the A30. Set inside a walled garden with 14ft high walls a broad path weaves through the garden's rich magic of the cottage planting style. A hundred climbers grace the walls and shrubbery. One restored greenhouse is full of prized Bougainvillea. Then walk amongst giant gunnera and 40ft bamboos. There are over 60 beautiful hostas, so big they reach your belt. So much to take in you don't know where to look next.
There's a free mobility vehicle available if needed and plenty of seating throughout. Open daily from 05 April. B&B for those who want to stay longer in this central Devon location.

maybe when I retire I shall be able to return to britain...my genes left there a century-or-so ago. Family came from East Sussex, Lewes, Hove, Brighton area.. would love to see Cornwall.

Visited last weekend, quite an impressive display of crocus, cyclamen,aconites and other spring bulbs. It was very busy though! Probably better to visit during the week. I thought this was an RHS garden and went armed with my membership card, but it isnt! Entrance fee £4.50, I think £3 may be more appropriate. Nice to visit, perhaps a couple of weeks later would have been better.

A lovely small castle, built 14th - 17th centuries, with a walled fruit, vegetable and ornamentalgarden laid out in the Late Victorian era. Now owned by the National Trust for Scotland. The garden is managed organically and many heritage varieties from Garden Organic's Heritage Seed Library are grown here. Visit in summer for the best colours. Woodland and meadow walks, tearoom, exhibitions and a children's adventure playground add further interest.

Owned by the National Trust for Scotland, this garden is a recreation of a mediaeval kitchen garden, built on terraces behind the palace. Proof that fruit and vegetables can be just as beautiful as any other kind of gardening.

A really peaceful place - with interesting garden and lovely sculptures.
Well worth a detour for!

Great little garden in a gem of a Cotswold village - a 'mini valley' location and some clever planting make this well worth visiting, perhaps in combination (and in contrast to) nearby Hidcote Manor. This is gardening with a sense of humour. Last visit was in April when there were spectacular scents from Hyacinths and Osmanthus.

www.milldenegarden.co.uk. Open March 18th, Tues to Fri, 10 - 5

Went a couple of years ago in July. The island beds were amazing, and it shows how big some grasses can grow. There is a lot to amuse as well as the gardens there are trains, if you like that sort of thing. I spent my day in the gardens and found it instructive. I also went to the nursery, the plants were reasonably priced but not all you see in the gardens are available. There was a water centre but I did not visit. Would say its worth the visit if your that way but not as varied as a day out at Barnsdale.

This is a garden full of contradictions.
Close to the Tay, it is very easy to drive past this garden with no awareness of what is there.
Walk into it and you have no idea that one of Scotland's busiest roads is only a suicidal lurch away.
But who would want to waste their life on suicide here?
From a spectacular scramble of alpinic falls to the comforting acid depths, and everything in between, this is a garden worth saving. And its beauty does more than any amount of expensive hours of therapy to tell you that life is worth saving and living too. Miss visiting this garden at your peril!!!!