The National Garden Scheme’s popular Snowdrop Festival returns this February with gardens featuring snowdrops and other winter flora open throughout the country.
The Old Vicarage, Middleton-by- Wirksworth, will be open on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd February from 11am until 3.30pm each day. There are beautiful borders filled with Snowdrops and Hellebores set in this delightful country garden not far from the High Peak Trail. Admission is just £5, children free. Dogs on leads are welcome.
Home-made cakes and hot drinks will be available, seating on the terrace or in the indoor fernery.
About National Garden Scheme
The National Garden Scheme gives visitors unique access to some 3,500 exceptional private gardens in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, and raises impressive amounts of money for some of the UK's best-loved nursing and health charities through admissions, teas and cake.
Thanks to the generosity of garden owners, volunteers and visitors we have donated more than £74 million to our beneficiary charities, and in 2024 made donations of over £3.5 million. Founded in 1927 to support district nurses, we are now the most significant charitable funder of nursing in the UK and our beneficiaries include Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie, Hospice UK and The Queen’s Nursing Institute.
The National Garden Scheme doesn’t just open beautiful gardens for charity – we are passionate about the physical and mental health benefits of gardens too. We fund projects which promote gardens and gardening as therapy, and in 2017, we launched our annual Gardens and Health Week to raise awareness of the topic. Our funding also supports the training of gardeners and offers respite to horticultural workers who have fallen on difficult times.
To find your perfect garden, visit ngs.org.uk, download the National Garden Scheme app or purchase the National Garden Scheme’s Garden Visitor’s Handbook, which is published annually and available via ngs.org.uk/shop and at all good book retailers.
For more see www.ngs.org.uk
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