The Open Gardens weekend got off to a great start with glorious weather and lots of keen gardeners, brochures in hand, making their way round the village to the 27 gardens open this year.  The gardens on show offered a huge variety from small gardens and courtyards to large formal gardens, cottage planting to vegetable gardens and everything inbetween. 

Homemade cakes and refreshments were on offer in the lovely garden of Mill House in Church Street and a big thanks to Richard and Susan Willett for allowing us to set up our tea room.

Once again, a minibus continually made its way round the village providing a hop-on hop-off service.

Thank you to all those keen gardeners who showed up to support the Open Gardens and a proportion of the profits made will be going to a local charity, STARS, which supports victims of sexual violence.  The rest will be used to support local events organised by the Upwey Society.

Thank you to all those gardeners who kindly opened up their gardens this year.

As an added bones a selection of vintage cars were on show again this year.

The Upwey Scarecrow competition also took place on the weekend, and if you happened to be walking round the village you might have come across a couple who had definitely been up celebrating a bit too much the night before, worzel mummidge, the Good Neighbours of Upwey GNU, or Mr Toad from Toad Hall.

Many congratulations to the winners:

1st Prize – Island Garden Nursery

2nd Prize – Littlemoor Youth Club (at St Laurence Church)

3rd Prize – 68 Elwell Street

A big thank you to all those who took part this year.