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Talkback: The National Gardens Scheme Yellow Book
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I'd love to show my garden but l don't think it's big enough or perhaps as interesting, ho, well perhaps some time in the future. I'd never heard of the yellow book, l'll have to buy it and look at some other gardens.
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In reply to Chrissy on 15th Feb - above,
please check out the NGS website www.ngs.org.uk which gives guidance on gardens thinking of opening e.g. size, quality etc. - if you still feel that your garden is too small, contact your local organiser anyway, they may have another small garden near you who would love to open as a 'Group' opening.
The last three years of opening for the NGS have proved to be wonderful, you get to have wonderful compliments from visitors and make money for a very worthy charity.
Visitors tend to linger interested in our plant combinations and garden design. That combined with the teas means that most visitors easily find 45 mins of interest.
It obviously helps if you have a particular "hook" for your garden. For us, it is our dogs, but it could just as easily be a particular plant group, colour, soil type, art or some such thing.
http://www.barhi.net/garden
http://gardeninganddogs.wordpress.com
I had been invited by the NGS to open my gardens ( two different houses )in the past,they are a wonderful organisation.
I hope to open my garden again in the future.
Where we live at present is too small,though it is still a packed garden lover's garden.
Filled with climbing roses and solanum alba on high wires to create a scented and floriforous oasis, where we sit
"on good days " having cups of tea and planning the next NGS garden to visit.
I wish a good season to come to all you gardeners out there.
cheers
Passi Flora