Open Gardens & Garden Visits
One of the best ways to get great ideas for your Patcham garden is to visit other fabulous gardens and steal theirs! We organise visits to local(ish) gardens and generous PGN members open up their gardens for all to see. In 2025 three of our members opened their gardens and raised over £1650 for charities.
Garden Visit
We are visiting Steve Bustin’s garden in Belton Close which is open for the NGS on Sunday 9th August at 11am. Steve has given two excellent talks at PGN in the last couple of years, the most recent on Ellen Willmott.
Steve’s garden is small and visitors are limited to 12 per hour. Tickets are £5 each, please contact us know if you would like to come.
Other time slots are available throughout the day, pre-booking is essential.
Open Garden 23rd August 2026
Nicola will be opening her garden on Sunday 23rd August to raise money for the Forget Me Not dementia intensive care facility in Worthing. Forget Me Not is a specialist residential unit where Nicola manages two gardens and runs horticultural activities for patients on a budget of zero. Looking forward to seeing you all there, talking plants endlessly and feasting on delicious cake!
The Garden House visit April 2025
We visited The Garden House in Warley Road for its NGS open day in the April sunshine. Originally a market garden it has year-round interest with trees, shrubs, herbaceous borders and annuals, fruit and vegetables, two glasshouses, a pond and rockery. They also run courses and do great cake!
PGN Goes to Wisley
In May 2025 we took our annual trip to RHS Wisley. This fabulous garden is just one hour away from Patcham. As an affiliated society of the RHS we are entitled to a free trip to one of their gardens every year. We opted for an early summer visit this time and enjoyed the paeonies and wisteria in bloom. Wisley is far too big to see in one day - if you would like to go and are not an RHS member we have a group membership card that you can borrow.
