Dear Blogger
Message from Allison at the National Gardens Scheme.
| The National Garden Scheme in Shropshire gets underway! Thanks to your continuing support, 2019 was the best fundraising year ever for the National Garden Scheme in Shropshire. Here we go again with another bumper year of fabulous Shropshire gardens to visit including 19 new gardens which have joined the Scheme. Details of our first opening at Millichope Park are below - we hope to see you there!.
Allison Walter, County Organiser, Shropshire National Garden Scheme
allison.walter@ngs.org.uk | | | COMING UP -
OUR FIRST OPENING OF THE YEAR!
Sunday 16th February 2020 (2-5pm)
Millichope Park, Munslow, Craven Arms, SY7 9HA This fantastic, historic landscape covering 14 acres, will be open to National Garden Scheme visitors to enjoy delightful woodland walks with swathes and swathes of snowdrops! The lake, cascades, folly and walled garden, home of Wildegoose Nursery, will all be available to explore and warming refreshments will be served in the walled garden cafe. Families welcome as are well behaved dogs on leads. Free entry to under 16s.  | | | COMING UP - First time opening The Old Vicarage, Bishops Castle, will be opening its gates for the first time for the National Garden Scheme in Shropshire. Open for its lovely snowdrops, as part of the Bishops Castle Arts Festival (https://bishopscastleartsfestival.com) on Friday 21st, Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd February (11-4pm on each day) | | | | Arrange to visit a Shropshire garden as part of the National Garden Scheme: from friends, garden groups, art groups, cycling groups, car groups, knitting groups: all are welcome. Just contact the owner to arrange a date. Click on the link below to see a list of all Shropshire gardens open by arrangement this year: | | | The National Garden Scheme raises money for caring and nursing charities including Macmillan, Marie Curie, Hospices UK, Parkinson's UK, The Queens Nursing Institute, Horatio's Garden, Maggie's Centres, The Carers' Trust and MIND, the mental health charity. The National Garden Scheme also supports gardening apprenticeships and community garden schemes
https://www.ngs.org.uk/who-we-are/beneficiaries | | | |
