The national gardening scheme is a program in the UK that allows people of the community to open up their gardens to the public. They are called open gardens and for a few pounds you are able to visit certain peoples back gardens and proceeds raised are donated to charity. Over the past few weeks I have gone to two open gardens in towns near by. It is pretty incredible what people can create in their back garden. The British are very good at taking what natural landscape they are given and turning it into something truly amazing. In order to open up your garden to the public a member of the NGS comes and visits your garden to see if it qualifies; the garden has to be able to hold a visitors attention for at least 40 minutes. I told Philomena the lady that I am working with that we have get her garden ready to be a garden for the open garden scheme. I have been doing a bit of work in her garden. I have been able to bring some extra vegetables home from work which I have planted in the garden. Also I have been working on edging some beds and some weeding. Back to the open gardens the first one I went to was very manicured almost spotless. They had some very nice plants as well as some very interesting ideas on growing fruit. The second garden I went to was located near the dale and they used that landscape to create an almost North American garden. They had a lovely stream running through the garden and a really nice rock bed. At each garden they serve refreshments (tea of course and coffee) and the most amazing cakes as well. The garden visits are worth it just for the amazing cakes. Also many sell plants they have propagated from their garden which you can relatively cheap. It is an amazing concept and if people in America improve their gardens would be a nice program to have in the US.
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