National Garden Scheme early openers break the winter sleep with blankets of snowdrops and early spring bulbs!
The National Garden Scheme season gets off to a wonderful, bejewelled start with Snowdrop and Spring Flower gardens. From swathes of snowy white blooms to colourful mixtures of aconites, hellebores, iris and crocus under early blossom there is a garden visit to lift your spirits as the year begins.
Four inspirational snowdrop gardens will be opening their gates in West Sussex this February and Crosslands Flower Nursery, Walberton will be holding two-hour tours of their 3 acres of glasshouses, filled to the brim with Sussex grown alstroemeria. And this is just the beginning: 81 fabulous West Sussex gardens will welcome you over the next 9 months including 19 opening for the first time.
To find your perfect garden or to find out more about the gardens featured below, visit ngs.org.uk
The Old Vicarage Washington
https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/21793/the-old-vicarage
Every Thursday 6 Feb to 2 Oct (10-4). Admission £8, children free. Pre-booking essential, please visit the NGS website for information & booking. Self service light refreshments on Thursday (cash only) & picnics welcome. Monday 21 Apr, Monday 26 May, Sunday 27 July, Monday 25 Aug (10-5). Admission £8, children free. Purchase ticket in advance or at the gate on the day. Home-made teas.
Visits also by arrangement 17 March to 2 October for groups of 12 to 30. No private group visits on Thursdays.
Sandhill Farm House Rogate
https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/19183/sandhill-farm-house
Sunday 9 February (12-4), Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th April (1-4) and Sunday 27th April (2-5). Admission £8, children free. Pay on the day. Home-made teas.
Highdown Gardens Worthing
https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/6351/highdown-gardens
Thursday 13 Feb (10-4.30), Thursday 1st May (10-8). Admission by donation.
The Manor of Dean Petworth
https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/3616/manor-of-dean
Sunday 2 February (2-4), Sunday 9th March (2-5) and Sunday 27th April (2-5). Admission £5, children free. Book in advance on the NGS website or pay on the day. Teas. Visits also by arrangement 3 February to 18 May for groups of 20+.
Crosslands Flower Nursery Walberton
https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/45634/crosslands-flower-nursery
Thursday 20 February, Tuesday 4th and Tuesday 11th March (10-12) Admission £10, children free. Book in advance on the NGS website (essential)
Visits also by arrangement 3 Feb to 28 Mar for groups of 10 to 30.
The National Garden Scheme made record donations of £3,501,227, the majority of which went to health and nursing charities including Marie Curie, Parkinson’s UK and Macmillan Cancer Support: see
https://ngs.org.uk/our-impact-in-2024-a-record-3501227-donation-is-helping-to-change-lives/
West Sussex was one of the biggest contributors raising £131,003.
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