National Trust To Open Sizergh Castle Gardens

Tue, 15 Jul 2008

The National Trust is set to open the gardens at Sizergh Castle, Cumbria, to visitors to help raise funds for the National Gardens Scheme and to promote its Careership Gardening Scheme .

Sizergh is one of 40 National Trust gardens across the country taking part in the National Gardens Scheme Open Day.

This years’ event plans to highlight the current shortage of skilled gardeners within the heritage gardening industry and promote its own 'Careership' gardening scheme which provides the sector with qualified graduate gardeners to help maintain historic gardens .

John Hawley, Head Gardener at Sizergh Castle Garden, said: "It is vitally important to the National Trust and to many other gardens that we have a steady supply of gardeners trained in the skills required to look after historic gardens - both now and in future."

"In recent years the heritage sector has been particularly hard hit by the decline in qualified gardeners which is why our Careership training programme is so important," he added.

The National Gardens Scheme has supported the National Trust for 50 years and has donated around £190,000 a year since 2001 to this particular training scheme .

Visitors to Sizergh can experience the Castle’s gardens – lauded as some of the finest in the North West - listen to talks by the gardening team and enjoy delicious local food in the Cafe.

Sizergh’s gardens, situated near Kendal, Cumbria, will be open from 11.00 - 5.00 pm on Saturday 19th July.
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