Chorlton Open Gardens
What is Chorlton Open Gardens?
One day a year, Chorlton’s residents allow the great unwashed to poke round their gardens to raise money for a good cause.
People give £5 in aid of Freedom from Torture to buy a programme from places across Chorlton (including Creative Recycling on Beech Road, Chorlton Bookshop on Wilbraham Road, Blossom Flowers on Manchester Road, and Chorlton Plant Nursery on Vicars Road) and this programme features a map and write-ups of each garden.
Green with envy
For Chorlton Open Gardens 2015, 13 new sites were added to the list bringing the total number to more than 30 including some amazing ones. Far more than you can get around in a day then (especially given many try to slow you down by putting on drinks, homemade cakes and live music).
It’s well-attended too – many of the gardens we saw received more than 200 visitors across the day.
Chorlton garden photos
We decided to focus on exploring the gardens of south-west Chorlton around Chorltonville and Chorlton Green. Here are the eight we saw at Chorlton Open Gardens 2015:
The Willows in Chorltonville
Brookburn Road in Chorltonville
Claude Road in Chorltonville
Ivygreen Road in Chorltonville (1st garden)
Crossland Road off Chorlton Green
St Clements Road off Chorlton Green
Ivygreen Road in Chorltonville – green roof (2nd garden)
Kingshill Road off Chorlton Green – cactus collection
(Note to self: remember to put this in Next years diary….)
By: gilly on August 13, 2015
at 17:51
Next year’s Chorlton Open Gardens is on Sunday June 26th 2016.
By: Merryn Cooke on October 6, 2015
at 19:54