Where Shall We Take Dad For Father's Day?

Fantastic Andrew an excellent blog

I love it Andrew. Thats typical isnt it. Very good. I thought you were going to say that it had cost you a fortune !

Great blog, Andrew. So glad you got sunshine. Thankyou for showing us round. Just lovely!

Great blog....really enjoyed looking around that lovely garden Andrew...thanks

Thanks for sharing x

Lovely Blog Andrew....smashing pictures :)

Pleased to see you had sunshine on your open day Andrew, makes such a difference, some well grown plants for sale I noticed...your garden goes on for ever thanks for the blog, are you opening again?

it's always best when you find things by accident. great blog, Andrew!

DD - I only open once but also take groups by appointment. The Bracknell Horticultural Association are coming on Wednesday evening and I have a local W.I. booked in for August.
Most of the sale plants were divisions or seedlings from things in my garden. But a friend 'rescued' a couple of dozen neglected shrubs and spent three months nursing them back to health before giving them to me. We sold about half of them (at £3 each); the rest will go to the Garden Club to sell for Club funds.

For those of you who didn't realise, this is my own garden which was open under the National Garden Scheme on Father's Day

Really enjoyed looking around your garden Andrew, got some lovely photos too! Sorry i didnt get to say hello! was quite busy when we arrived. I would love to know the names of some of your plants if you could identify them for me, will add the photos later today thanks.

It looks wonderful Andrew .So much work but so worth it :-)

Lovely blog and garden !!!!

I think once is a good idea and then to take private bookings, we were discouraged from doing this by the county organizer though....

Probably because it means extra paperwork for the treasurer. The NGS likes you to be fairly prompt with getting the money to them, so a lot of 'by appointment' bookings would mean a lot of cheques or payments to process. The other thing with groups, it doesn't whether there's 3 visitors or 300, the garden still needs the same amount of work to get it ready. Berkshire is a small county (in terms of the number of gardens) so they are quite happy for 'by appointment' openings, but I guess Surrey and Hampshire, having hundreds of gardens, try to dissuade it.

Congratulations Andrew...stunning garden...:>)