{"id":28552,"date":"2026-03-03T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/?post_type=event&#038;p=28552"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:42:36","slug":"national-garden-scheme-denmans-garden-fontwell-open-garden","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/event\/national-garden-scheme-denmans-garden-fontwell-open-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"National Garden Scheme: Denmans Garden Fontwell: Open Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/findagarden.ngs.org.uk\/garden\/5576\/denmans-garden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denmans Garden<\/a><br \/>\nDenmans Lane, Fontwell, BN18 0SU<br \/>\nOpen for NGS: Mon 27 Apr, Mon 26 Oct (9.30-4). Adm \u00a310, chd \u00a38. Pre-booking essential, please phone 01243 278950, email <a href=\"mailto:office@denmans.org\">office@denmans.org<\/a> or visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denmans.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> for information &amp; booking. Light refreshments.<\/p>\n<p>Award-winning Grade II registered tranquil contemporary garden, created by gravel gardening pioneer Joyce Robinson and developed by renowned landscape designer John Brookes MBE. Known for its curvilinear layout and complex planting, features including year-round colour, unusual plants, structure and fragrance in the gravel gardens, dry riverbeds, ponds, walled garden, and conservatory. Plant Nursery with specially selected and unusual shrubs, grasses, ferns, and herbaceous perennials. The Gift Shop has beautifully curated gifts and locally made products. Midpines Caf\u00e9 serves breakfast, lunch, and afternoon tea.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally garden openings need to be cancelled please always check on the NGS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngs.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the generosity of garden owners, volunteers and visitors The National Garden Scheme have donated over \u00a377.8 million to nursing and health charities and in 2025 made an annual donation of over \u00a33.8 million. The core beneficiaries include Carers Trust, Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie, Hospice UK, Parkinson\u2019s UK and The Queen\u2019s Institute of Community Nursing.<\/p>\n<p>The National Garden Scheme doesn\u2019t just open beautiful gardens for charity \u2013 they are passionate about the physical and mental health benefits of gardens too. They also support charities doing amazing work in gardens and health and grant bursaries to help community gardening projects.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the National Garden Scheme, discover your perfect garden or find out how to open your own garden, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngs.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>. For gardens opening in Sussex, pick up a copy of The National Garden Scheme Sussex Booklet, available free from many local stores, garden centres and libraries and as an online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galleries.co.uk\/NGS\/sussex26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flip Book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":28555,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"event_categories":[1097],"class_list":["post-28552","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_categories-national-garden-scheme"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-10-27 09:39:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"event_categories","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/28552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/28552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28557,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/28552\/revisions\/28557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_categories?post=28552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}