This is an invitation to consider offering your garden for Two Mile Ash Open Gardens 2022, which will take place over the weekend 11-12th June, 1-5 pm.
This will be the 5th Open Gardens and will also encompass our TMAEG projects, showcasing a rejuvenated Bee Garden and Fernery. Also, our newly-opened Bluebell Circuit, which offers new walking opportunities.
The OG2022 sub-group has already been offered several full and front gardens. These lie along the Fairways/Westcliffe/ Milesmere/Stonehill/ axis. We would welcome more in these areas.
From the visitors’ point of view, clusters are more attractive than an isolated garden at the end of a long trudge. If you’re considering opening your garden some way away from others, it would be useful to find a neighbour or two nearby! Get in touch with us, in any case.
Remember, this is not a competition. There is huge variety in Two Mile Ash and we’d welcome gardens that reflect this, quirky or immaculate.
It is amazing what people have achieved following their own particular vision – we know that two years of virtual lockdown have provided the opportunity for transforming a dull garden into a very special place. Maybe flowers have given way to fruit and vegetables? Perhaps your garden is now a magnet for wildlife?
For the visitor, this variety is the joy of Open Gardens.
Past Open Gardeners have enjoyed the event very much and have also appreciated the opportunity to run, if they choose, a small activity – teas, or a plant stall, perhaps – to raise funds for their own favourite charity. Around 100 visitors per garden can be expected.
Alternatively, if you want to help in another way, lending a hand staffing another garden, or distributing Yellow Passports, then please get in touch.
If you go to our website www.tmaeg.org and click on Open Gardens, you may find answers to any questions you may have.
Please reply to me on [email protected] or ring 01908 561365, ideally by Friday 11th March. I look forward to hearing from you!
Pavla Gossop
Open Gardens 2022