Explore the wonderful collection of herbs - more than 400 different varieties - when Jekkaa's Herb Garden & Herbetum opens for @ngsopengardens.bsky.social
Each ticketed session will have a guided tour or talk.
Open Sat Aug 2, 9.30-4pm. Entry Β£7.50. Pre-booking essential. Details: buff.ly/k5HnQSJ
30.07.2025 08:28 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Promotional poster for Trinity College Open Gardens, part of the National Open Garden Scheme. The event is on Sunday 3 August from 11am to 3pm. Admission: Adults Β£8, Children Free. The design includes the NGS logo, photos of vibrant summer flowers and college gardens, and a color palette of blues, golds, and greens.
We are opening our doors for an Open Garden Day with @ngsopengardens.bsky.social and can't wait to show off our grounds! Join us 3 August: ngs.org.uk/gardens/trin...
22.07.2025 11:26 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Think sunshine, cake and flowers! Gather your friends and family for a garden get-together in aid of some of the UKβs best-loved nursing and health charities. Every penny you raise will make a difference.
Click to find out more and sign upποΈ
ngs.org.uk/gardenparty
#GreatBritishGardenParty
30.06.2025 15:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
If youβre at Chelsea Flower Show this week pop along and see the National Garden Scheme team on Cross Way opposite the Hospice UK garden. Weβre got county booklets to help you plan this yearβs garden visits and a range of gifts usually only available in our online shop!
21.05.2025 12:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This Gardens and Health week we're delighted to share with you the fifth edition of our interactive digital publication 'The Little Yellow Book of Gardens and Health'β
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You can read the Little Yellow Book of Gardens and Health hereποΈ
bit.ly/LYBGH2025
#GardensAreGoodForYou #GardensAndHealth
01.05.2025 13:35 β π 14 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1
Within the National Garden Scheme there are a host of wonderful painters, sculptors, textile artists and art lovers who open their equally creative gardens, and sometimes their studios, to the visiting public.
Read moreπ
ngs.org.uk/art-in-natio...
π·οΈWest Garth Cottage, Cumbria Β©Carole Drake
17.04.2025 15:32 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The sounds of the #Cotswolds today at the Lords of the Manor hotel for a future feature.
A perk of my job is seeing beautiful gardens, often when thereβs no one else around.
This garden at Upper Slaughter opens for @glosngs.bsky.social on Weds April 16.
#UKGardening π± @ngsopengardens.bsky.social
10.04.2025 11:45 β π 160 π 18 π¬ 6 π 2
There is something startlingly beautiful about bluebells en masse. These lovely plants most often thrive in the gorgeous dappled shade of woodlands full of birdsong and make a visit particularly uplifting.
ngs.org.uk/the-beauty-o...
#gardensaregoodforyou #gardensopenforcharity #gardenvisit
04.04.2025 15:08 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Whether youβre looking for a woodland walk or want to explore a more traditional garden, the National Garden Scheme has a lovely selection throughout April and over the Easter weekend.
Head to our website and get planning your visits nowποΈ
bit.ly/april_open_g...
#gardensopenforcharity
01.04.2025 15:15 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
We are delighted to announce our latest NGS Elsie Wagg Innovation Scholarship winners: 5 nurse-led innovation projects that will focus on the power of gardens to improve people's physical and/or mental health. πͺπ±
Find out more here: qicn.org.uk/news-and-eve... @ngsopengardens.bsky.social
26.03.2025 15:14 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
A neat grassy path weaves through borders of colourful summer flowers and a background of tall leafy trees
The new series of #GardenersWorld kicks off tonight! Tune in at 8pm BBC2 and get inspired by the charming garden at Rookery Cottage.
Visit the garden when it opens for the National Garden Scheme on Sun 1 JunποΈ
findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/46207...
#gardensopenforcharity
14.03.2025 12:40 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Newsletter sign up - National Garden Scheme
For unmissable gardens, events, prize draws and inspiration subscribe to the FREE National Garden Scheme eNews today.
ngs.org.uk/sign-up/
#gardensopenforcharity #gardensaregoodforyou #gardens #gardening #getoutside #gardeninspiration
10.03.2025 12:03 β π 15 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Work: @parkinsons.org.uk π§ Ex-Trustee: #CavellTrust π Creative: Me, My Brain & I π¨ Fun: once rode a #Brompton up #Ventoux3 π
All views my own
Beautiful gardens
Tempting Cakes
Raising money for charity
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The Bumblebee Conservation Trust is the only charity dedicated wholly to saving the UK's bumblebees π
www.bumblebeeconservation.org
π· Kate Jaconello
I'm Flighty - allotmenteer, armchair gardener, blogger and sofa flying book buff in Harrow, London.
My blog is Flighty's plot - https://flightplot.wordpress.com
Passionate garden and creator of Ulting Wick Garden. NGS opener. Member of the Worshipful Co of Gardeners. National Hunt owner always seeking a Grand National Winner! Food, Opera and reading.
Helping people in horticulture with advice, support and financial assistance for 185 years.
Leafy updates from BBC Gardeners' World Magazine and www.gardenersworld.com πΏ
Regional Nurse coordinator for Parish Nursing Ministries UK as well as a General Practice Nurse & Queens Nurse. Passionate about partnership working, holistic care, my Christian faith and fabulous family. Yorkshire lass at heart!
Head of Communications at the Queen's Nursing Institute
Keen gardeners and lovers of gardens and plants. Champions of Hardy Perennials.
We meet monthly for lectures and sales of member grown plants.
ποΈ Official Bluesky account for the Isle of Wight, UK.
ποΈ Say Yes to the UK's very own sunshine Island. Say Yes to the #IsleofWight.
Weβre the UKβs leading end of life charity. Hospice care and support, research and campaigns. Whatever the illness, weβre with you to the end π
Norfolk branch of the National Garden Scheme, opening beautiful private gardens for charity, often with the all important tea and cake!
Weβre Parkinsonβs UK, the charity thatβs here to support every Parkinsonβs journey. Every step of the way.
https://prksn.uk/4g94RcM
A national charity that promotes high-quality nursing care for people in need. Our Queen's Nurses deliver outstanding care in homes and communities everywhere.
The Scotland arm of the UK's largest woodland conservation charity. We create, protect & restore native woods & trees for people & wildlife, to combat climate change & build a greener future.
Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Hospice UK fights for hospice care for all who need it, for now and forever. We champion the 200+ hospices across the UK, and run the campaign Dying Matters.
https://www.hospiceuk.org/