Gardens in Winchelsea were scheduled to open for the National Garden Scheme on Saturday 20th June 2020.

Although some NGS gardens are now able to open with online booking and timed tickets, this isn’t a system that works for a garden group.  We hope to be open in 2021.

We aren’t able to show you round this year. Scroll down to see a selection of pictures of our gardens that we hope you will enjoy.  

All round the country gardens open for the NGS to raise money for charity.  In 2019, nationally, almost £3 million was raised.  Visitors to Winchelsea’s April and June openings contributed £9,500 to that total.  Most of the charities the scheme supports are nursing charities and, because most gardens haven’t been able to open, they will be short of funds.

You can find out which gardens are able to open, and make a donation online by going to the NGS website. Thank you!

Backfields End  Peter and Sandra Mackenzie Smith

Backfields End

Backfields End

Backfields End

Cleveland House  Sarah and Jonathan Jempson

Cleveland House

Cleveland House

Cleveland House

Cleveland Place Sally and Graham Rhodda

Cleveland Place

Cleveland Place

Cleveland Place

Evens  James and Judith Payne

Evens

Evens

Evens

Giles Point  Ant Parker and Tom Ashmore

Giles Point

Giles Point

Giles Point

King’s Leap  Philip Kent 

King’s Leap

King’s Leap

King’s Leap

Lookout Cottage  Mary and Roger Tidyman

Lookout Cottage

Lookout Cottage

Lookout Cottage

Periteau House  Lawrence and Felicity Youlten

Periteau House

Periteau House

Periteau House

Rye View  Howard Norton and David Page

Rye View

Rye View

Rye View

The Well House

South Mariteau  Robert and Sheila Holland

South Mariteau

South Mariteau

South Mariteau

The Well House  Alice Kenyon

The Well House

The Well House

The Well House

The Well House

Money from the sale of teas would have gone to Friary Gardeners.  This project started in Winchelsea and is now based on the Ridge in Hastings.  They would also have run a plant stall at our opening.

Friary Gardeners offers horticultural training and greater independence to adults with a wide spectrum of leaning difficulties in the Hastings and Rother area. It is a non profit making scheme and forms part of the Parchment Trust – a charity working in the field of learning disability and multiple and profound disability.

More on the project and how you can support it here

Friary Gardeners

The gardens were also due to open on Sunday 21st June for the Friends of the Hospital at Rye

More on the Hospital and the Friends here

Rye, Winchelsea and District Memorial Hospital

To find out more about the National Garden Scheme and to make an online donation to the nursing charities the scheme supports, click here. Thank you!

You can send us feedback by emailing opengardens@winchelsea.com