National Garden Scheme

I love the garden scheme and have visited many of the gardens and had my old garden open once, but please make the web site easier to use.
Great work to all thank you

We have just visited Pylewell Park open garden South Baddesley Lymington. It was very difficult to find the entrance as there were no signs from the main road. The entrance to the garden was manned by a man with no ngs badge, we were not given a ticket. It was £5 each to walk round what was essentially a large lake with no garden. Even though I know the money is for a good cause I think the price is excessive to walk round a lake surrounded by woods. One of the worst open gardens we have ever been to.

What a big disappointment your 'new' web site is
Last year you clicked on the South West, up came a list of gardens and off you went. Now you have a map with a whole numbers on - what do they mean? What a shame. not sure I'll bother this year

We've been visiting gardens open under this scheme for at least 25 years and used to enjoy them, finding plants we wanted to try and a high standard of tidiness. We don't go for the cakes, because we are gardeners ourselves.

Over the last ten years or so (excluding Covid years) the tidiness has declined, charges have increased, and new gardens with more quirks (statues, outdoor sofas) than genuine interest have been included in the scheme. OK, the idea is to make money for charity, but NGS must do that without us. We wonder how many other visitors agree?

Many happy weekends have been spent visiting gardens via the NGS. Highly recommended

The Grange, Leominster, Herefordshire .
Very disappointed no quality, character or interest in this garden in fact their
is hardly any garden at all, it can be all seen within five minutes, we have enjoyed all the other gardens that we have visited but this is a real let down,
people travelling a long distance will be disapointed. the garden is far to small and should not be listed.had to give it one star so i could post this review.

Fabulous visit to The Vicarage in Middleton. A passionate garden and lover of plants.

Really enjoyed our visit to the open garden at Woodham Walter last weekend. Very pretty garden and blacksmith demonstration an added bonus