Open Gardens 2024

A look back at the 2024 Open Gardens day
A sweeping lawn edged with deep borders and pink mallow

A sweeping lawn edged with deep borders

Gardens across the village opened their gates for the 2024 Open Gardens day, with all proceeds going towards the upkeep of St. Mary's Church. Visitors enjoyed a wonderful variety of gardens — from gravel gardens and lavender beds to sweeping lawns and cottage borders.

The full write-up is on its way — in the meantime, enjoy this selection of photos from the day.

The Gardens

Gravel garden with palms, ornamental grasses and a stone water feature

A gravel garden with palms and a stone water feature

Paving slabs laid in a chequerboard pattern, planted with ferns and bedding

Chequerboard paving planted with ferns

A circular wrought-iron garden feature with lavender borders beyond

A wrought-iron feature framing the garden

Two visitors beside a tall border of purple flowers

Garden hosts awaiting the first visitors

Lavender and grasses around a seating corner with reclaimed timber posts

Lavender around a quiet seating corner

A pair of ornate metal café chairs surrounded by pots of red pelargoniums

A seat among the pelargoniums

View across a lawn towards a garden shed, framed by climbing roses

A view across the lawn, framed by roses

A wide lawn with planted terracotta pots in the foreground

A wide lawn under a big Norfolk sky

A timber pergola above a colourful perennial border

A pergola above the perennial border

Every garden had its own character — formal and informal, gravel and grass, old favourites and new ideas.

In Bloom

Orange and purple osteospermum daisies in close-up

Osteospermums in full colour

Orange, purple and pink osteospermum daisies

A study in daisies

A drift of orange California poppies

California poppies

Pink and red pelargoniums in terracotta pots

Pelargoniums crowding the pots

A young grafted branch on an apple tree

A grafted apple tree in one of the gardens

A magenta pelargonium flower in close-up

Pelargonium in close-up

A pot of purple osteospermums with purple loosestrife behind

Osteospermums and loosestrife

July colour at every turn — osteospermums, poppies and pelargoniums putting on a show for the visitors.

Baskets and Raised Beds

Hanging baskets of petunias and lobelia on wooden rails

Hanging baskets in full flower

A railway-sleeper raised bed of pelargoniums with lavender behind

Pelargoniums with lavender beyond

Red and pink geraniums in a raised timber bed under a blue sky

Geraniums under a summer sky

Lavender filling a square railway-sleeper raised bed

A raised bed brimming with lavender

Hanging baskets and railway-sleeper beds were a theme this year — proof that you don't need acres to make a display.

Holme Sweet Holme

A visitor posing playfully at the Holme-next-the-Sea village sign

Welcome to Holme-next-the-Sea!

A visitor holding a sign reading 'Holme Sweet Holme'

Holme Sweet Holme

And finally — proof that Open Gardens day is as much about fun as flowers.