National Garden Scheme Open Garden Saturday May 2nd

Although there has been very little activity on the website there has been lots of activity in the garden ! We have been accepted by the National Garden Scheme and are having two Open Days as part of their scheme in 2026; May 2nd to showcase the spring garden and tulips and August 22nd to highlight the hot colours of summer paired with the cool white magnificent Hydrangea Annabelles.

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/48563/station-house

Tea and cakes will be available and plants for sale as well as the garden being open. There is a £5 admission charge which goes to the NGS which supports a large number of charities including Macmillan and HospiceUK. The Open Day runs from 10-4. The garden is looking really lovely at the moment. Please do come if you are free. Your support would mean alot.

The National Garden Scheme has been funding nursing and health charities since 1927, and at the end of the 2025 season they announced donations of £3,875,596 to their beneficiary charities. The donations helped thousands of people living with cancer, Parkinson’s, poor mental health, or the pressures of unpaid caring, by supporting the nurses, health professionals and case workers who care for them. 

The. NGS “approves” gardens to be part of its scheme and we are honoured at NurtureNature to have been approved to be part of the scheme – it is a positive endorsement for all the hard work and planning that has been put into the garden. We are a small team of 3 – working together to make the garden as special a place as possible and somewhere that promotes mental and physical health and welbeing. It has been designed specifically with healing in mind with planting to promote visual, auditory, touch, scent and taste in relation to the planting. It has been a pleasure to have people use it for meditation both in a group and individually and this is something we would like to build up. We will continue to develop workshops with mindfulness, creativity and writing at their core.

nurturenature is a small registered charity (Reg charity 11182363) focused on establishing our 1 acre garden as a therapeutic space that is not only a beautiful place that those of us lucky enough to live here benefit from but is a healing space available to other people in need of the healing power of nature, gardens and/or gardening. Click on the ‘Blog’ button above to read the latest post.We have recently been approved by the National Garden Scheme. The National Garden Scheme gives visitors unique access to over 3,300 exceptional private gardens in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, and raises impressive amounts of money for nursing and health charities through admissions, teas and cake.

We plan events in the garden with a view to people’s wellbeing benefiting not only from the creativity of the event but also from the healing power of nature. The benefits of nature to health and wellbeing, both physical and mental, are becoming increasingly widely recognised and this is reflected in the increased use of nature based therapies by mainstream medicine in place of, or alongside medication and other medical interventions. I have very much used the power of nature in my own healing journey which has been one of serious complex chronic disease which has prevented me from working and means I am wheelchair dependent. I am certain that without the garden and the benefits it provides for me I would be significantly less well both physically and mentally.

image shows rose Ferdinand Pichard, a beautiful “striped” rose flowering in the garden in June 2019.