Nearby NGS gardens that are open

30th May 2025 | Community

Westbrooke House at Market Harborough, LE16 8AX,

opens on Saturday 25 May from 10 am to 4:30 pm. The gardens include a walled flower garden, a walled kitchen garden, a fernery, a lower garden, a wildlife pond, a spring garden, lawns, woodland paths, and a meadow with a wildflower area, a ha-ha, and a hornbeam avenue.

Westview in Great Glen, LE8 9EH opens on Sunday 26 May

from 11 am to 4 pm. It’s an organically managed, small walled garden with many unusual colourful perennials. It also features a courtyard garden, alpines, a wildlife pond, greenhouse and vegetable plot.

Stoke Albany House

from 2 pm to 4:30 pm on Wednesdays throughout June. It’s a 4-acre country house garden with fine trees, wide herbaceous borders filled with colour, a nepeta walk arched with roses, a parterre with box and roses, a potager with topiary, a water feature and sculptures.

St Wolstan’s house, LE18 3RA

opens on Sunday 1 June from 11 am to 5 pm. It’s a beautifully maintained ½ acre garden. Highlights in early June include a pergola covered in roses and wisteria overlooking the sunken Italian garden and the rose garden.

28 Gladstone Street, LE18 1AE

A mature town garden in Leicestershire, 28 Gladstone Street, LE18 1AE opens on the 7/8 June, 11-5 pm. It features unusual hardy perennials, a fern collection, a Hosta Theatre, and David Austin roses.

Neville Holt Hall, Market Harborough, LE16 8EG

From the 12 – 15 June, 12-9 pm, Neville Holt Hall, Market Harborough, LE16 8EG, opens in conjunction with festival events. The 10-acre garden, designed by Chelsea medal winner Rupert Golby, includes three walled gardens with artistic planting, box, and topiary.

Brickfield House Market Harborough,

LE16 8XS, opens on Friday 20 June, 12-4pm. This 2-acre garden, developed from a sloping brickyard rubbish plot over 37 years, offers lovely views overlooking the Welland Valley. It features a kitchen garden, orchard, herbaceous borders, paths, and many pots filled with succulents, herbs and colourful annuals.

Wigston Framework Knitters Museum, Wigston, LE18 2BA

The secret garden at Wigston Framework Knitters Museum, Wigston, LE18 2BA, opens on weekend of 21/22 June, 11-5 pm. It’s a Victorian walled garden with traditional cottage planting, maintained by volunteers, located in the grounds of a historic Museum.

Oaktree House, South Kilworth, LE17 6DU

On Saturday 28 June (11- 5) and Sunday 29 June (11- 2), a beautiful country garden opens at Oaktree House, South Kilworth, LE17 6DU. It features formal design and cottage planting, modern sculptures, herbaceous borders, pond and greenhouse.

Carol Bartlett, Volunteer Press Officer, Leicestershire National Garden Scheme