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Gardens to visit
Tilley Bancroft
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evening all!
just wondered if any of you can suggest a garden or two for hubby and I to visit this weekend?
we live in Burton on trent, willing to travel around 45 mins. Can't walk too far at the mo, so somewhere with plenty of benches and/or a coffee shop would be handy.
we like all types of gardens, but the mr always enjoys the more exotic 
Tilley
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Go to your local Garden centre and ask for the "yellow book" for your area. In this will be all the private gardens open for charity locally. Usually there are one or two every day. The book is free or available for a small charge.
http://www.ngs.org.uk/
You can do it all on line now.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Great idea Nut.. you can enjoy a cake while you browse....
You can find yellow book gardens open by visiting:
www.ngs.org.uk
Good hunting.
there are quite a few open this weekend
In the sticks near Peterborough
That's just what I was about to say ww and nutcutlet! Here's a link for NGS Gardens within a 25 mile radius of BoT, and open this w/e.
http://www.ngs.org.uk/gardens/gardenfinder/search.aspx?search=type:advanced-d:25-dr:8-twn:Burton+upon+Trent%2c+Staffordshire-xy:42390%2c32300
Happy visiting!
Tilley, you can always pick up from your local garden centre/ public library/TIC etc.a free copy of the 2013 NGS Open Gardens guide for your county/area. Then you won't have to keep hopping onto the computer.
There is also online the National Directory of Open Gardens, all raising money for charity.
http://www.opengardens.co.uk/index.php
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Might take you a bit longer than 45 minutes but can't recommend Barnsdale (near Oakham in Rutland) strongly enough. Plenty of seats and quite compact. Also the Garden Organic gardens at Ryton-on-Dunsmore, near Coventry are good. Both have decent caffs and good plant sales too,