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The National Garden Scheme opens privately owned gardens in England, Northern Ireland, Wales, and the Channel Islands on selected dates for charity. It was founded in 1927 with the aim of "opening gardens of quality, character and interest to the public for charity".
The Honourable Wyndham George Plumptre (born 24 April 1956) is chief executive of the National Gardens Scheme.He is an expert on gardens and has been an author and journalist, including gardening correspondent for The Times (1993–96).
That year 609 gardens opened at 1 shilling admission raising over £8,000 (worth about £450k today) from 164,000 visitors. The King suggested this become an annual event and the National Garden Scheme was created as a fundraising committee of the QNI. [2] Wagg was honorary secretary of the NGS 1927–1946, and became vice-president in 1948.
Gardens in England is a link page for any garden, botanical garden, arboretum or pinetum open to the public in England. The National Gardens Scheme also opens many small, interesting, private gardens to the public on one or two days a year for charity.
Felley Priory is a 16th century house with gardens located in the village of Felley, Nottinghamshire, UK. It is situated on the grounds of a former priory established by Augustinians in 1156 and dissolved in 1536. The gardens were started in 1974 by Maria Chaworth-Musters and opened to the public through the National Garden Scheme just two ...
Ulting Wick is a 11-acre (4.5 ha) garden, situated at Ulting near Maldon in Essex, UK.It is centred around three listed black Essex barns and a 16th-century farmhouse. It is open to the public, by appointment, under the National Garden Scheme.
Anderson Manor. Anderson Manor is a Grade I listed manor house in the Dorset village of Anderson in England.It was built in 1622 for John Tregonwell.Today it is privately owned, but its gardens are open to the public under the National Gardens Scheme.
Arthur retired as chairman of United Dairies in the early 1920s and set about creating a new garden for his new home, redesigned and enlarging the gardens, and they opened to the public in 1927, one of the first to be opened as part of the National Garden Scheme. [2] [3] The house was requisitioned by the army in the Second World War.