Welcome to the Beeston and Chilwell Garden Trail (BCGT), which this year is going to be a little different!
For over 22 years garden owners in the Beeston/Chilwell area have opened their gardens to the public once a year to share their love of gardens and to raise money for charities, particularly local causes.
Our garden owners have used the coronavirus/lockdown as an opportunity to get their gardens looking especially tip-top and so we thought it would be a shame for our visitors to miss out, hence our ‘Virtual Trail’!
So . . . sit down with a cuppa and maybe a slice of cake (!) and visit our lovely gardens from the comfort of your own home! Please don’t rush, our virtual trail will be available for the next 4 weeks!
If you wish to support any of the charities the garden owners are supporting this year, please donate online.
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| Tea and cakes at 10 Audon Avenue (2019) |
Next year’s BCGT will take place on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th June
2021 when we will be looking forward to the real thing. We are always
on the lookout for new gardens so if you live in the Beeston/Chilwell
area and are interested please email-
bcgardentrail@gmail.com
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The gardens in detail
10 Audon Avenue, Chilwell
Chosen charity - click on the name to donate online: Forever Stars
Description: Small garden with Forties feel and theme
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66 Audon Avenue, Chilwell
Chosen charity: Beeston Dementia Friends (BACS Sort code: 40-10-06, Account: 62477793)
Description: A long narrow garden including a large patio with
raised bed and inset flower bed with a mature spreading acer. The
garden area is set out in 3 different parts including a small
rockery, flower bed with plants to attract bees and butterflies,
heather bed, and herbaceous border.
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Canalside Heritage Centre, Canal Side, Beeston
Chosen charity - click on the name to donate online: Canalside Heritage Centre
Description: Our garden is a tranquil space maintained by the
community with fantastic views across the River Trent, with many
different types of fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, trees and
shrubs. The garden is also designed to encourage a much greater
variety of insects and wildlife and we have a beautiful Apiary
providing us with honey and beeswax throughout the year.
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Red House, 102 Cator Lane, Chilwell
Chosen charity - click on the name to donate online: Operation Orphan
Description: The Red House is one of the historic buildings of
Chilwell, built as a farmhouse for part of the Charlton estate in
1850 and extended by Watson Fothergill in 1890. The garden is
arranged in ‘rooms’ around the house, and has a wonderful selection
of mature trees, shrubs and flowers alongside many new additions,
including a restored kitchen garden, a knot garden and a mature rose
garden. We even have our own well!
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6 Devonshire Avenue, Beeston
Chosen charity - click on the name to donate online:
New Beginnings (Accessible Art for Disabled People in Beeston)
Description: A cottage-style garden with colourful
herbaceous borders. We have created some different "rooms"
for the family through a mixture of hard landscaping and
informal planting.
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21A Grasmere Road, Beeston
Chosen charity - click on the name to donate online: Hope Nottingham
Description: Mainly herbaceous garden on three levels with steps
between. Two lawns to rear garden with rampaging tortoise.
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30 Highgrove, Chilwell
Chosen charities - click on the name to donate online: Dementia Care and Volunteer Transport (call 0115 9699060 or email admin@rushcliffecvs.org.uk)
Description: A plant collectors garden with year round colour and
interest. Features include, a large white Wisteria, two ponds and a
rill, native and unusual trees. Gardening with wildlife in
mind.
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186 High Road, Chilwell
Chosen charity: Beeston Methodist Church (Tel: 0115 9431164 or email office@beestonmethodist.church)
Description: An eclectic garden which has evolved over the years
around three sides of the house. Cottage garden feel with an
informal mixture of flowers, some fruit and a small vegetable plot
with raised beds. There is a greenhouse for growing plants
from seed and growing on tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers etc. An
attack of honey fungus culminating in 2018 has destroyed a number of
trees and I am taking advantage of the new space to grow more
herbaceous plants before risking planting trees again.
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6 Hope Street, Beeston
Chosen charity - click on the name to donate online:
Cystic Fibrosis
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2 Manor Avenue, Beeston
Chosen charity - click on the name to donate online: Broxtowe Women's Project
Description: A garden with a wildlife pond which seems
to compliment our more haphazard approach to ‘design’ and
growing of plants. We have several mature trees
and others yet to mature. We have a swing that all
ages can enjoy. There is space for growing
fruit and vegetables and a section for bee-hives that are owned and
tended by the B-Man John.
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91 Marlborough Road, Beeston
Chosen charity - click on the name to donate online: Toilet TwinningDescription: A plantlover's garden managed organically on a 1920s
suburban plot. The garden includes mature shrubs, wildlife pond,
fruit trees and vegetable area.
Description: A small, sunny, mature, mostly walled garden
featuring densely planted herbaceous perennials. The garden is an
all-year-round garden so plant shapes and foliage are as important
as flowers. In summer there are clematis, phlox and penstemons
flowering. These are interspersed between established shrubs and
two trees.
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2A Meadow Lane, Chilwell
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Middle Street Resource Centre, Middle Street, Beeston
Chosen charity - click on the name to donate online: Beeston Community Resource CIO
Description: Community Garden in the centre of Beeston with a
surprisingly large garden in the back and side of the building. We
have a wide range of plants and trees, a pond and water features.
The garden is run and maintained by a fantastic group of
volunteers.
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60 Park Road, Beeston
Description:This garden has no lawns! The front garden is managed woodland:
mature trees are underplanted with shrubs and masses of Spring
flowers from snowdrops to wild garlic and bluebells. A garden
room has exotic plants with all weather access to greenery. The
mini vegetable patch occupies a roadside plot so gardening is
frequently interrupted!
The driveway and enclosed walled flower beds lead to the
‘secret’ green and white cool garden behind the unusual
house built in 1969. There are some quirky features and a
range of spectacular and unusual plants. It is always a work
in progress….
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94 Park Road, Beeston
Chosen charity - click on the name to donate online: Nottingham University Hospitals Charity Radiotherapy FundDescription: Family-friendly garden, lawn and cottage-style borders. Small vegetable plot, greenhouse and secret den.
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Queenswood Methodist Home, Cliffgrove Avenue, Chilwell
Chosen charity - click on the name to donate online: MHA Queenswood, Residential Care Home
Description: Residential care home garden located in a quiet
neighbourhood. We have a wide selection of plants, several sitting
areas, green house and a summer house.
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3 Station Villas, Beeston
Description: Built in the late 1860s, there are large gardens to both the front and rear of the house. Trees dating from this time can be found in the gardens, which have large borders containing many flowers popular in Victorian gardens. There are well-established fruit trees and a herb garden, as well as salad crops growing in the greenhouse plus a wildlife pond.  |  |
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Gardens from previous year's trails
7 Grove Street, Beeston
16 Lime Grove Avenue, Beeston
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We hope you have enjoyed our ‘Virtual Garden Trail’; please remember to join us in 2021!