It really is too hot to do any work this summer so a great excuse to relax in someone else’s garden, enjoy what they have created, treat yourself to tea and homemade cake and of course, help to raise funds for the many health-related organisations supported by the National Garden Scheme. Nearly 5,000 people have visited NGS Open Gardens in Powys so far this year!
For the rest of July, you have a variety of gardens to visit, from small, unusual ones, community gardens, and a village event. As always, children go free.
Saturday 18:
Cultivate, Pendinas, Llanidloes Road, Newtown, SY16 4HX is a thriving 2-acre community garden with an extensive range of vegetables, herbs and fruit. Open between 10.30am and 3pm, admission is £4.50. Tea and cakes are available.
Sunday 19:
Willowbrook, Knighton Road, Presteigne, LD8 2ET is open from 11am until 5pm. Admission is £5, with refreshments available. The level garden is approximately ¼ acre and is bursting with colour, with mixed borders, vegetables, fruit, topiary, ponds and rill.
Saturday 18 and Sunday 19:
Tranquility Haven, 7 Lords Land, Whitton, Knighton LD7 1NJ is a Japanese inspired garden, open from 1.30 until 4.30pm, admission £5. Winding paths pass small pools and lead to Japanese bridges over a natural stream with dippers and kingfishers. This is a pop up opening i.e. dates are not in the handbook or booklets and is in addition to being open by arrangement.
Royal Welsh Agricultural Show July 20 until 23: Visiting the Royal Welsh Show? Come and visit us on the National Garden Scheme stand in the Horticultural Village situated between the Machinery Entrance and Entrance A. Do you have a garden you wish to open or interested in volunteering to help raise money for our nursing and health beneficiaries? We can discuss and register your interest. Outside, find our show garden created by volunteer Jude Boutle of Mow, Grow, Tidy of Llanbister with plants kindly loaned by The Dingle Nursery near Welshpool. The theme will be Surviving Drought. Here’s a short film to remind you of last year’s garden.
Saturday 25 and Sunday 26:
Bryn Teg, Bryn Lane, Newtown SY16 2DP is an amazing Caribbean garden in the centre of Newtown. Admission is £4, open from 11am until 4.30pm. Tea and cake is available close by at Ponthafren.
Ponthafren, Long Bridge Street, Newtown SY16 2DY is another interesting community garden on the banks of the River Severn. Admission is by donation. Tea and cake available.
Sunday 26:
Llanfechain Gardens, SY22 6UQ is another village opening with 7 gardens to visit, all for a combined admission fee of £6, open from 11 am until 4pm. Refreshments are available in aid of Llanfechain Community Centre. Llanfechain is a beautiful historic village set by the River Cain. The gardens include a school community garden, 2 small terraced gardens, 2 carefully tended bungalow gardens, and a delightful hidden garden with a rill. A large garden with a productive vegetable and fruit area and wildlife area is a 10 to 15 minute walk from the village centre.
For more gardens and details, visit findagarden.ngs.org.uk
