Royal Gardens of Goldsborough Hall
Dates for 2012
Goldsborough Hall will be opening again in April and July 2012 on:
Sunday 1 April 2012
Daffodils in the Lime Tree Walk
Goldsborough Hall will be opening again on Sunday 1 April 2012 for the National Garden Scheme. Garden highlights include spring bulbs, a Winter woodland walk and a stroll up the quarter-mile long Lime Tree Walk – planted by Royalty – underplanted with over 50,000 daffodils.
Cost £5 per person. Children free. Light lunches and delicious home-made teas will be available. All proceeds will be going to charity – those charities nominated by the NGS include Marie Curie Cancer – and a percentage of the proceeds will go to St Mary’s Church, Goldsborough. St Mary’s Church will also be open on the day.
Sunday 22 July 2012
The Rose Garden at Goldsborough Hall
Goldsborough Hall will also be opening on Sunday 22 July 2012. The grounds in July are full of interest and garden highlights include the Rose Garden planted with old roses – Old China Blush, Little White Pet and Comte de Chambord – interplanted with lavender angustifolia ‘Old English and lined with lavender ‘Munstead’.
The beech hedges were planted in Princess Mary’s time and the sundial in the centre is a gift to Princess Mary from the people of Horton, Oxon. The two 120ft herbaceous borders were planted in a Gertrude Jeykll style in 2006 and include ever-lasting sweetpeas, irises, helianthus, rudbeckia and dahlias. A visit to Goldsborough Hall’s gardens would not be complete without a stroll up the quarter-mile Lime Tree Walk, planted by Royalty in the 1920s.
Gardens in the Summer
For more gardening pictures, please visit the garden gallery.
Price
Cost £5 per person: children free. Light lunches and delicious home-made teas will be available. There will also be a plant sale. All proceeds will be going to charity – those charities nominated by the NGS include Marie Curie Cancer and Macmillan Nurses – and a percentage of the proceeds will go to St Mary’s Church, Goldsborough. St Mary’s Church will also be open on the day.
Openings by Appointment
We are also open to garden groups and private visits, by appointment.
Other Openings in 2013
In 2013 we will be opening for Snowdrop Days in February 2013 and for the NGS at the end of March and July 2013. It will be an exciting year as Goldsborough Hall will be celebrating the 85th anniversary of its first opening for the NGS in 1928. Please check back for more details and dates.
Previous NGS Openings
Harlow Carr curator Elizabeth Balmforth opens the gardens
When HRH Princess Mary lived at Goldsborough Hall in the 1920s, she opened the garden for the National Garden Scheme in 1928, 1929 and lastly in 1930. At the first opening in 1928 takings were £180 13s 6d.
In 2010, we were delighted to open the Hall’s gardens once again open for the NGS after 80 years. At the first Spring opening in 2010, we had a tremendous turnout with over 1,600 visitors and in the Summer over 2,700 people, making over £16,000 for the NGS. The gardens were officially opened on 25th July 2010 by Elizabeth Balmforth, the curator of the Royal Horticultural Society Garden Harlow Carr (photographed by Rebecca Honeywell-Ward).
We opened again in 2011 in March and July with great success – with the summer opening receiving over 1,000 visitors to the gardens.
For more details on the National Garden Scheme, see www.ngs.org.uk
