Garden, charity, cake – what’s not to like?
Posted:3 August 2014
STOP PRESS: Due to possible adverse weather conditions tomorrow, 1 Belton Close will ALSO be open TODAY, Saturday 9th. They’ll still be open on the Sunday however! To confirm garden will be open Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th, 11am-5pm each day. We love gardens, we all like supporting good causes and we certainly like homemade cakes, so we wanted to let you know about a chance to combine three of our favourite things at a garden just up the hill from us at The Garden House.
Charity open garden at 1 Belton Close BN2 3RY, 10th August, 11am – 5pm
The garden at 1 Belton Close is something of a hidden gem – you can’t see it from any road and it’s tucked away behind a little close of houses. Owners Steve and John are old friends of the Garden House John is often to be found taking money on the door at our open days and Steve ran our recent social media course.
They’ve turned their L-shaped garden into a real plantsman’s paradise, packed to the brim with colour, especially from tropical planting including bananas, cannas, gingers, dahlias, ricinus and tithonias, plus collections of succulents, aeoniums and alpines. You can also enjoy their kitchen garden, 12m herbaceous border and meet the resident chickens.
Having previously opened in the National Garden Scheme and Garden Gadabout, this is Steve & John’s only open day this year and they’re raising money for a small charity called MPD Voice (www.mpdvoice.org.uk) who provide information and support to anyone living with a myeloproliferative disorder (MPD), a group of rare blood cancers, and fund research towards better treatments.
The garden will be turned into a pop-up garden café for the day, with teas and homemade cakes available plus plants and homemade preserves for sale, with all proceeds going to the charity.
You can find more information about the event on the Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/events/661928300566919 or if you can’t make the event but you’d like to make a donation to MPD Voice, you can do so via their Just Giving page: https://www.justgiving.com/GardenCakeCharity/
The garden is only about 5 minutes walk from here at The Garden House, off Ditchling Road near The Jolly Poacher pub. If you’re looking on a map, look for Belton Road BN2 and Belton Close is an alleyway between 7 and 9 Belton Road – but Steve and John assure us they’ll have plenty of signage out on the day to help you find your way!
Please help us help our friends and fellow gardeners raise lots of money for this great cause.