Shropshire Historic Church's hold open garden events to help raise money, and this weekend there is the Harley Open day, and we travel to Wigwig to visit one of the gardens involved.
00:00So Shropshire Historic Church's Trust, they welcome people into other people's
00:05gardens to help them raise money for their good cause. Madam, introduce
00:10yourself. I'm Juliet and with Simon we open Stream Barn together with other
00:15gardens at Harley. We have a garden of three acres made up of garden rooms at
00:23the top and then down through the woods we have Sculpture and Garner and the
00:28stream running through. It's like a number of different gardens combined isn't it
00:33really? It is, we've developed over the years. Lovely colour. You weren't expecting these to be out for this weekend but you were saying it's been
00:40tricky in many ways this year because it's been so dry but it has. We have, we've
00:45been incredibly dry and we've been watering and watering and watering. Joy of a
00:52life of a gardener isn't it? So have you opened before to the public? We have, we
00:56first did the year after Covid and then we did two years ago and this is our
01:02third go so we're looking to get. Great stuff and how long have you been here at the
01:06property then? Over 20 years. And basically everything garden wise is what you've
01:11created isn't it really? It is, yes. Yeah and lovely little water, what do we call it? A rel, water rel.
01:17We copied the idea from the wonderful Woolett and Old Hall. Yeah, yeah. Built over
01:24lockdown where that was our project. Lovely spot. Are you in the shadow of the
01:29wonderful Wenlock Edge? You've made the most of those views as well. We have, we
01:33have. The real sculpture in the centre we spotted at Malvern. Okay. Created by an artist
01:38called Darren and his company is One Artisan. Yeah. He creates large pebbles and garden
01:45sculpture out of polished concrete. Well thank you for letting the Shropshire
01:49star in and get yourselves involved guys. So it's the Shropshire Historic
01:53Churches Trust. There's all the info on the website and there'll be about seven or
01:57eight gardens open this weekend. There will. From 11 and we're open until 6pm.
