Welcome to our Wild Gardens 2026!

Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st June

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 are 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 Saturday 20th 11-4 pm

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
Five acres below the moor under Carr Head rocks. A hillside garden, meadow and woodland with wide views of Hope Valley.  Managed for nature with 5 ponds, meadow and woodland. 
 
 
 

Open Saturday 20th 11-5 pm

Leveret Croft
Hathersage
S32 1BR

We are up the Dale below Stanage. Put both the name of house and the Post Code in your sat nav.  Ring if you get lost  Scharlie 07936 606653
Refreshments and loo.

Hathersage Millennium

Hathersage

Hathersage Millennium Garden is a community garden in the centre of Hathersage. 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. 

 

Open Sunday 21st 2-4 pm

Hathersage Methodist Church
Main Road
Hathersage
S32 1BB

The garden is between the Methodist Church, the petrol station and the Derbyshire Dales public car park.

Refreshments available

Further House

Hathersage

Medium size garden on an L shaped plot with the house in the apex. A cottage garden with lawns, trees & shrubs forming various “rooms” including a small wild plot, pond, flower beds, veg & soft fruit plots.

Open Sunday 2-5 pm

Further House
Baulk Lane
Hathersage
Hope Valley
Derbyshire
S32 1AF

Jagger's Lane

Hathersage

Hathersage Rewilding group now manage a stretch of the verge for wild flowers and the adjacent south facing border as a wildlife friendly garden, for the benefit of passers by as well as wildlife.

Open  all the time

The border is alongside the pavement just below Coggers Lane, as a public footpath it will be open unattended all weekend.

Stoneygate

Bradwell

We have changed a small terraced garden into a space with a variety of  habitats for wildlife, e.g. lots of flowers for pollinators, both wild and cultivated species.


Open Saturday 11-4.30 pm

Stoneygate
Bessie Lane
Bradwell
S33 9HZ

(Bessie Lane runs between The Hills and Edge Lane. Don’t rely on Satnav!)

The New Vicarage

Bradwell

Ours is a medium to large garden, divided into an enclosed rear garden, and a more open driveway area where we encourage community access. we have introduced a woodland wildflower area, a wildlife pond (which now has newts and frogs), a wildflower meadow and a dry hedge.

Open Saturday 11-2 pm

The New Vicarage
Church Street
Bradwell

Behind St Barnabas Church, between the churchyard and Bradwell Infant School.

10 Trees Community Gardens

Bamford

10 Trees is a new 2.5-acre community garden in Bamford with meadows, copses, an orchard and a large, flourishing kitchen garden designed with wildlife in mind. The garden’s perennial beds have been recently renovated in a naturalistic style. Self service garden teas and folk music.

Open Saturday 10-4 pm

Lydgate Lane
Bamford, Hope Valley
S33 0ba
Refreshments available

For more information contact Jane – jane@10trees.co or visit their website

Springwoods

Bamford

We have a pond, a meadow, a lawn that is given over to moles in the winter, a vegetable raised bed area, a south-facing soft fruit slope, a reed bed for processing greywater from the house, and a pond and bog garden. 

 

Open Sunday 1-5 pm

Springwoods
Thornhill
Bamford
S33 0BR

Refreshments available 

All visitors, please note;

● Children under 16 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian at all times
● Gardens are natural spaces containing wild and potentially allergenic plants.
Please supervise children, do not touch plants and do not enter any
sectioned off areas.
● Gardens contain uneven terrain – sturdy footwear is recommended
● Visitors with a known insect allergy should carry their prescribed medication