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East Bridgford Open Gardens
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Nottinghamshire Hospice
Founded in 1980, Nottinghamshire Hospice is a community-based palliative care centre which provides high quality care services to adults who have terminal and life-limiting illnesses, and their families and carers.
All services are provided free of charge to patients and their loved ones. Each year Nottinghamshire Hospice needs to raise £4m to fund the services they are proud to provide to the Nottinghamshire community.
All the work of Nottinghamshire Hospice goes back to ‘Adding Life to Days’. They aim to improve the daily lives of people who have been told that their illness cannot be cured. They help people who are thought to be in their last year of life to live as actively and well as possible with care that puts the highest value on dignity, choice and respect.
Now, more than ever, they need your support to continue the ongoing work and launch new services to support our community in a time of crisis.
East Bridgford Village
In 1984, my family and I were looking for a home near to my new job in Radcliffe -on-Trent. I was driving over Gunthorpe Bridge on the way to a rugby match and saw a sign for East Bridgford.
Curious, I turned off and drove in just as the road-side daffodils and cherry blossom were in full bloom.
We moved in later that year and have now lived in this vibrant & beautiful village of just under 2000 residents for more than half of my lifetime.
However, it was only during a previous Open Gardens event that I discovered how many wonderful gardens there are here, some hidden from view.
This is a great opportunity to enjoy the same experience.
Phil Clarke,
Chairman, East Bridgford Parish Council
Please click on the garden you'd like to visit.
Moss Close.
Meet The Green Man, your quirky guide to things to come. Intrigued? Please venture in.
An established garden, slowly being changed to suit the current owners. (video)
Brunt’s Farm, Walnut Tree Lane
Brunt’s Farm has a large garden behind the 400 year old house and a smaller front garden. There are lots of borders, trees and a vegetable plot. (video)
The Pingle
The Pingle
A mix of perennial borders, shrubs and climbers, providing colour and interest for the spring and summer months. (video)
It's a wrap
An artist's cottage garden.
The Pingle
This walled garden wraps round the house in a glorious riot of colour, perfume and productivity. Designed and replanted in 2016, it is maturing in a (relatively) well behaved manner. (video)
Prize Farm
An artist's cottage garden.
An artist's cottage garden.
Two gardens for the price of one! One is a series of circular lawns, the other a rectangular walled garden with acers, grasses, hostas, peonies, roses and many more. (+ video)
An artist's cottage garden.
An artist's cottage garden.
An artist's cottage garden.
As an artist this garden inspires me to paint and enjoy the many forms and colours. (video)
The Old Egg Farm Gardens
Dovecote House, Kneeton Road
The Old Egg Farm Gardens
An established garden incorporating a herbaceous border, planted roundabout, lawns and a natural pond. The orchard area has been left to nature with wildflower seeding and bee friendly planting.
Appletree Cottage
Dovecote House, Kneeton Road
The Old Egg Farm Gardens
Appletree cottage is set low down in the hollow created by the brickyard many years ago. The garden is divided up into lots of little gardens that wrap around the house creating a number of seating areas to relax in.
Dovecote House, Kneeton Road
Dovecote House, Kneeton Road
An English Country Cottage Garden on Main Street.
This is a small, south facing cottage garden which we have developed over 11 years and which runs on organic principles (with no chemicals).
An English Country Cottage Garden on Main Street.
An English Country Cottage Garden on Main Street.
An English Country Cottage Garden on Main Street.
Garden has three separate areas. Nearest the house is the cottage borders, the back garden has the entertainment and third is the walled kitchen garden. (video)
Squirrel's Leap
An English Country Cottage Garden on Main Street.
Straws Croft Modern Garden
A mature garden that once formed part of the grounds of East Bridgford Hall. There are ancient and new features as we continue to develop and structure the garden.
Straws Croft Modern Garden
An English Country Cottage Garden on Main Street.
Straws Croft Modern Garden
This is a new garden, there are a series of raised beds which surround a wooden decking area, a small summer house and new this year a small greenhouse.
Orchard Rise – Kneeton Road
A ½ Acre Garden facing south over fields
A ½ Acre Garden facing south over fields
A garden that blends four distinct areas – paved, lawn and herbaceous border, vegetable patch and wilding areas with grassed tracks between and encompassing a variety of fruit trees.
A ½ Acre Garden facing south over fields
A ½ Acre Garden facing south over fields
A ½ Acre Garden facing south over fields
Trees including a fine tulip tree, clipped yews, grass and herbaceous borders, with many shrub roses. In the family for 60 years.
A hidden garden on Main Street
A ½ Acre Garden facing south over fields
A hidden garden on Main Street
A hidden garden on Main Street with one very deep south facing border planted with formal box bushes surrounded by naturalistic herbaceous perennials and grasses. There’s a pleached hedge at the back that borders the snicker from Butts Field.
East Bridgford Garden Photos
East Bridgford Garden Photos
A hidden garden on Main Street
You are very welcome to view this garden full of plants big and small from all over the temperate world. (video)
A Brickyard Garden
East Bridgford Garden Photos
A Brickyard Garden
A garden very much on 2 levels! The house and patios on the top level and a lower more secluded area 15 steps below with terracing, steps and a winding grass path down.
Against the Odds
East Bridgford Garden Photos
A Brickyard Garden
This interesting and relaxing garden benefits from stunning established trees, these break it into separate areas and raise your eyeline so that the garden seems much bigger than it actually is.
A Plantsman's Garden
A garden of two halves
A garden of two halves
Containing high maintenance and unusual plants many in pots for the serious enthusiast. Only looks its best in later summer but in early summer its the Hosta collection that dominates. (video)
A garden of two halves
A garden of two halves
A garden of two halves
The front garden has a woodland feel, surrounded by trees, hedges and climbers. The back is more a cottage garden with patio, pond and rambling flower beds. (video)
Longcroft
A garden of two halves
Our Garden
A secluded garden retreat in Straws Lane. (video)
Our Garden
Springdale Garden
Our Garden
A busy family garden, at the heart of family life. Beautiful structural trees bring scale, and a large lawn for footballs, pets, kids, big and small!
Springdale Garden
Springdale Garden
Springdale Garden
This garden provides us with recreation for our children, beautiful places to unwind in and an allotment and orchard for tasty produce.
Foliage Garden
Springdale Garden
Springdale Garden
A small garden with the emphasis on all year round interest. Planting is based on form and texture with raised beds constructed of natural stone. (video)
Bishop's Cottage Garden
Bishop's Cottage Garden
Bishop's Cottage Garden
Mixed planting, shrubs, herbaceous, bulbs, small pond, vegetable garden, beech hedge and traditional mixed hedging running along side of field. Shrubs are mostly spring flowering and mostly evergreen.
Uplands
Bishop's Cottage Garden
Bishop's Cottage Garden
Parterre gardens linked by a corridor of alliums, irises and agapanthus. A yew hedge separates the formal garden from the lawn where a variety of trees allow sunshine and shade throughout the day.
Byways
Bishop's Cottage Garden
Greenacre Lodge Kneeton Road
A complete sun-trap with challenging growing conditions, but benefiting from a sheltered and secluded rear garden. However everyone appreciates our Cherry Tree in the Springtime!
Greenacre Lodge Kneeton Road
Greenacre Lodge Kneeton Road
A mature garden laid to lawn with shrubberies and a large pond feature currently inhabited by "lockdown" families of moorhens and mallards.
Small Home – Small Garden
My small garden around my Park Home down Trent Lane, still a work in progress, but getting there.
When old meets new
A garden full of evergreens, shrubs, birds and footballs. Having tamed it a little and added some more plants and structures, it still holds its mature and peaceful charm.
Welcome
2021 - Opening for real!!
We are delighted to welcome visitors to our village this year. We currently have 18 gardens to show, plus our own Springdale Wood and a Bee Farm.
This is our third time running (last year was virtual) and to date we have raised over £3,700 towards good causes.
Virtual event
If you can't make it today, don't worry as we shall be showcasing our gardens on this website. We shall launch the page on the day, please make a note if you want to visit.
Plants, teas and cakes.
We are really fortunate in that Timmermans Garden Centre will be running a pop-up plant stall. There are also a few of our gardeners who shall be selling plants too.
Refreshments will be available too, with drinks and a selection of delicious home made cakes.
How to find us
Please look at the map at the bottom of this page. It can be busy in the village, so we are encouraging cars to park on Kneeton Road (see map below) NG13 8PH . It is best to start at garden number 1 or 2 (see map) as garden 3 is quite small.
Where to start
You can start at any participating garden. Entry is £5 (children free) and you will be provided with a brochure / map to help you find your way around the village. We shall have contact-less payment available at a few gardens. Look for the balloons.
If you are parking on Kneeton Road it is best to start at garden number 1 or 2 (see map) as garden 3 is quite small.
A few gardens welcome dogs, but on the whole you will be asked to leave them outside the properties you visit.
Gnorman
We are running a competition for children on the day. Click here for more information.
Covid
As with the rest of the country, we await details of restrictions etc. We don't anticipate problems, but we shall be making thorough Health and Safety checks and will ensure we follow any protocols that may be in place.
Old East Bridgford
We are fortunate to have the opportunity to showcase some wonderful old photographs of the village. Click here for the link.