The Old Vicarage garden has been open to the public through the National Gardens Scheme on many occasions in recent years, for the benefit of charity (including a share to St Andrew’s Church).
We will be open for the National Gardens Scheme on Sunday 18th May 2025, from 2.00pm to 5.00 pm. There will be a stall with plants for sale and delicious home-made teas will be available in the adjacent 12th century church, which is itself well worth a visit. Details are in ‘The Yellow Book’ – website http://www.ngs.org.uk
In 2020 we were featured in an episode of BBC ‘Gardener’s World’ which was broadcast a few days before our annual opening – and Monty Don gave our open day a plug. Wow. We laid on extra parking in a field, but still the result was a traffic jam that blocked the road through the village all afternoon. It’s not normally like that!
But we do hope to arrange parking in a field near the house, further down Station Road.
The garden is featured in ‘The Good Gardens Guide’ and we occasionally accept groups of keen gardeners at other times, by pre-arrangement only; please email Sarah Furness at ll@rutlandlordlieutenant.org.
Bunny Guinness has created a video about some of the design features of the garden available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSrKABol5Bw
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