Welcome to our Wild Gardens 2026!
Wild gardens are for people as well as nature! Nine gardens are open this year and offer an endless variety of creative ideas to engage our minds and give delight. HVCA Wild Gardening has been going since 2020 and Open Wild Gardens have been running since 2022.
This year, gardens are open in Bradwell, Bamford and Hathersage on the limestone and gritstone. Nine gardens, small and large with diverse topography from level sites with rich soils to steeply graded hill sides. Habitats include, flower beds, lawns with wild flower patches and meadows, bird baths, ponds and boggy areas, stone walls, brash hedges and woodland.
We were able to share our experience and learn new things about how nature responds to the way we garden. Biodiversity loss and climate change are linked and it is more important than ever that we garden with nature in mind.
Open Gardens
Each garden has different opening times over the weekend, so please make sure to check before your visit. Some gardens will also have refreshments available. For further details, including the full address and amenities, please refer to the “Visitor Info” section for each garden.
T-End House
Hathersage
One acre garden with mown paths dividing beds of wildflowers, herbaceous borders, a greenhouse and raised beds for fruit and vegetables.
There are nest boxes for swifts and house martins and a box for barn owls in the adjacent field. Beautiful views over Higgar Tor and Stanage Edge, with plenty of seating.
Open 20th June 11-4 pm
Visitor Info
T’End House, Park Edge
Hathersage, S32 1BS
Parking: please note there is limited parking on Park Edge or at my house. Enjoy the views as you walk along Park Edge, as the name implies, mine is the last house.
Leveret Croft
Hathersage
Open Sunday 21st 11-4 pm
Visitor Info
In managing the land we follow the basic principles of “wild gardening” in observing and learning from experience, not using herbicides and pesticides and creating habitats for birds, mammals, insects and amphibians. We have made many bird boxes, which have successfully raised multiple broods, and are attracting swifts. Badgers visit and brown hares live in the garden. Moths and butterflies are plentiful.
Hathersage Millennium
Hathersage
Hathersage Millennium Garden is a community garden in the centre of Hathersage, in between the Methodist Church, the petrol station and the Derbyshire Dales public car park.
The garden was created in 2000 as community project to celebrate the Millennium.
Open Sunday 21st 2-4 pm
Visitor Info
Hathersage Methodist Church
Main Road
Hathersage
S32 1BB
It was a real community effort with lots of people getting involved. The garden is still run by a group of volunteers who meet fortnightly for gardening sessions.
The main area is a woodland garden which is managed on a semi-wild basis. There are a range of mature trees and shrubs providing shade and shelter for wildlife. There are pathways running through the woodland which children can enjoy exploring. We have installed birdboxes and ‘bug hotels’ and do our best to encourage native species, observing and learning as we go, and would love to hear ideas from others.
Further House
Hathersage
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Jagger's Lane
Hathersage
A stretch of the verge on Jaggers lane has been managed for wildflowers for several years. next to the verge is a South-facing border under a stone wall, we have been managing that as a willdlife-friendly garden for the benefit of passers by as well as wildlife. We have introduced some plants and encouraged others with the result that the border is now full of comfrey, honesty, primroses, sage, rosemary, marjoram, iris, teasel, mullein, montbretia and euphorbia, with flowers at most times of the year.
Visitor Info
The border is alongside the pavement just below Coggers Lane, as a public footpath it will be open unattended all weekend.
Stoneygate
Bradwell
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The New Vicarage
Bradford
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10 Trees Community Gardens
Bamford
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Springwoods
Bamford
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