Our garden is open to the public every day from 1st April to mid October for the National Garden Scheme. This year is our 10th year of opening, amazing how quickly the time goes. When we first opened the garden was still very much in its first flush of youth, in fact, by comparison there really can’t have been much to look at. The ground has been worked, plants planted and weeds weeded continuously since then so that it now has an established feel about it.

The NGS is a wonderful organisation which raises money for various cancer care and other charities. This year it is celebrating 85 years of existence. Its a win, win concept. Visitors have the chance to see a wide variety of gardens including many small private ones which only open perhaps one day a year. The garden owners have a chance to show off their all their hard work and, at the same time raise money for charity.

At the moment our garden is at the splishy, sploshy stage. This usually is the norm over winter but after two dry winters we’d forgotten just how wet our site can be. There are ‘moats’ around the borders, the pond has at last reached the overflow pipe and us two garden openers are feeling pretty despondent with the excess of water. I know we need it but it is small consolation when we get too much at the ‘wrong’ time. So, in the unlikely event of you coming to look round the garden in the next few days we would strongly suggest bringing wellies to wear.