Bloom town gardens will open to everyone
GARDEN lovers will be able to visit 15 private plots around Market Bosworth on Sunday.
The gardens, all within walking distance of the town centre, will be welcoming visitors from 1pm until 6pm as part of the National Gardens Scheme (NGS).
Organised by volunteers from Bosworth in Bloom, money raised will be shared between NGS chosen charities and the town’s annual horticultural efforts which are regularly judged as part of the national Britain in Bloom contest.
An open gardens event in 2014 generated nearly £1,000 for the community cause.
Combined admission to all 15 plots costs £5, with maps available from the Market Place.
Gardens range from small, lowmaintenance and child-friendly spaces to a three-quarters of an acre woodland edge expanse.
At York Close, Gladys Clinton and a team of helpers have been baking cakes ready to serve at a pop-up tea room in her colourful garden while at Spinney Hill, Judy Buckell will be serving ploughman’s lunches and cream teas.
Two gardens will be opening for the first time and others for the first time in several years.
Among them are plots with lawns, plots without lawns, vegetable plots, ponds, greenhouses and bee hives.
Event organiser Peter Ellis said: “Everyone gets so much pleasure from opening their garden.
“The positive comments from visitors provide a real boost and we all enjoy a chance to see what other people do.
“There’s such a variety of styles and planting.
“It gives people real inspiration about what can be done in a relatively small space.”
As well as the open gardens, there will be a farmers’ market in the town centre from 9am until 2.30pm, jazz on the parish field at lunchtime as part of Market Bosworth Festival plus a quilting exhibition in the parish hall on Park Street.