The National Garden Scheme: Garden Open Day: Foxwood Barn Fontwell
01 June 2024 to 02 June 2024
2pm to 5pm
The National Garden Scheme: Garden Open Day: Foxwood Barn Fontwell https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/43318/foxwood-barn Visit this lovely garden and help support NGS Charities inc. Marie Curie & Macmillan Cancer Support Foxwood Barn Fontwell The garden at Foxwood Barn was developed from a green field site five years ago. The almost two acre garden is still evolving. The owners are keen to encourage wildlife and garden sustainably. There are many areas of note including the wildlife pond, rose and gravel garden, patio areas and a dry riverbed. The gravel garden surrounded by roses and populated by a huge variety of hostas. The wildlife pond with a decked sitting area and summer house is the perfect place to observe dragon flies landing on the water lillies. The picnic area adjacent to a paddock with donkeys and ponies, is available for guests to use when booking a private garden viewing. The garden at Foxwood Barn Fontwell, Arundel BN18 0SR is open for the National Garden Scheme Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd June (2pm-5pm). Admission £6, children free. Book online at https://ngs.org.uk or pay on the day. Home-made teas. Visits also by arrangement June to Aug for groups of 10 to 30. Afternoon or evening visits. If you’re passionate about your garden and your friends and family tell you how lovely it is, why not open it to visitors with the National Garden Scheme? Why support the National Garden Scheme The National Garden Scheme gives visitors unique access to over 3,500 exceptional private gardens in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, and raises impressive amounts of money for some of the UK’s best-loved nursing and health charities through admissions, teas and cake. Thanks to the generosity of garden owners, volunteers and visitors we have donated more than £70 million to our beneficiary charities, and in 2023 made donations of over £3.4 million.
Founded in 1927 to support district nurses, we are now the most significant charitable funder of nursing in the UK and our beneficiaries include Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie, Hospice UK and The Queen’s Nursing Institute. The National Garden Scheme doesn’t just open beautiful gardens for charity – we are passionate about the physical and mental health benefits of gardens too. We fund projects which promote gardens and gardening as therapy, and in 2017, we launched our annual Gardens and Health Week to raise awareness of the topic. Our funding also supports the training of gardeners and offers respite to horticultural workers who have fallen on difficult times. To learn more about the National Garden Scheme, discover your perfect garden or find out how to open your own garden, visit ngs.org.uk, download the National Garden Scheme app or purchase the National Garden Scheme’s Garden Visitor’s Handbook, which is published annually and available via ngs.org.uk/shop and at all good book retailers. Direct links to West Sussex NGS gardens https://ngs.org.uk/west-sussex-may-gardens/ https://ngs.org.uk/west-sussex-june-gardens/ https://ngs.org.uk/west-sussex-july-gardens/ https://ngs.org.uk/west-sussex-august-gardens/ https://ngs.org.uk/west-sussex-by-arrangement-gardens/
