Open gardens and village garden trails worth a Sunday
For a few weekends a year, ordinary villagers throw open their garden gates. Tea, cake, and a nose around someone else's borders.
1. Repton NGS Village Gardens
A varied group of village gardens open in Repton, one of Mercia's oldest towns, where the prep school grounds and a ruined priory set the scene for a gentle summer day.
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Twenty acres of gardens and lakeside walks open around a medieval moated manor in a quiet corner of north Norfolk, with roses grown here for centuries and woodland beyond.
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Around 15 to 20 private gardens open in a small Welsh market town draped in floral displays, with a plant market and picnic spots beside the River Usk.
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A dozen gardens in a pretty village near Richmond open up, one holding the National Collection of sea-holly eryngiums, with a miniature gardens competition for under-12s.
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Dozens of walled town gardens open in one of England's best-preserved medieval market towns, alongside a garden market in the ancient centre.
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Three private gardens open in a Stirlingshire village at the foot of the Campsie Fells, from a tiny walled garden with a topiary rabbit to a Victorian arbour with views of the hills.
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A four-acre garden of formal lawns, wildflower meadow and fruit trees opens through the summer at the foot of Painswick, the Cotswolds hilltop village known as the Queen of the Wolds.
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