National Garden Scheme Winter Garden Walks

We have curated a list of the most captivating winter gardens that are waiting to be explored. Despite the chilly weather, these gardens are bursting with vibrant colours and fascinating sights, offering an enchanting experience for visitors.

Proud partners of National Garden Scheme, renowned for their incredible line-up of open gardens available for booking this season. We have handpicked a selection of our top favourites that you won't want to miss out on.

Bucklow Farm, Cheshire

Country garden with shrubs, perennial borders, rambling roses, herb garden, vegetable patch, meadow, wildlife pond/water feature and alpines. Landscaped and planted over the last 35 yrs with recorded changes. Free range hens. Carpet of snowdrops and spring bulbs. Leaf, stem, flowers and berries to show colour in autumn and winter.

Spring Platt, Kent

1 acre garden with panoramic views of the Weald. Approx 500 different varieties of snowdrops in raised sleeper beds but many more now planted in grass around the garden with spring flowers in borders. Large vegetable garden, 4 greenhouses, natural spring fed water feature and a croquet lawn. Citrus fruit trees now in large Alpine House.

Higher Cherubeer, Devon

1¾ acre country garden with gravelled courtyard and paths, raised beds, alpine house, lawns, herbaceous borders, woodland beds with naturalised cyclamen and snowdrops, kitchen garden with large greenhouse and orchard. Winter openings for National Collection of Cyclamen species, hellebores and over 400 snowdrop varieties.

The Dower House, Derbyshire

Beautiful view of Melbourne Pool from balustraded terrace of 1829 house. Garden drops steeply by paths, arbour or steps down a bank of some 60 shrubs, to lawn with herbaceous borders. Numerous paths lead to different areas of the garden, providing varied planting opportunities inc a bog garden, glade, shrubbery, grasses, herb and kitchen garden, rose tunnel, orchard and small woodland.