Welcome to Letchworth Open Gardens 2026 and its history 

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Letchworth Garden City Open Gardens began in 2002, taking place every alternate year since with a virtual event in 2020. We are now pleased to be back again in 2024.

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Letchworth Open Gardeners enjoy meeting visitors and showing you our gardens; we strive to be super tidy for one special day. We are proud to raise money for charities. Over the years we have raised over £72,000 for the British Red Cross, the Garden House Hospice and other national and local charities. We now attract over eight hundred visitors to our gardens and we hope you will help us once again raise over £10,000 this year.

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Letchworth Open Gardeners are a group of local individuals who share an enthusiasm for gardening. You will find that each garden looks very different. They vary in size from large to tiny and in styles from modern to English traditional, from gentle to exuberant, perhaps exotic. Many of us grow fruit and vegetables.

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Several types of top soil are found within Letchworth. Some gardeners work on heavy clay, some have only a few centimetres of topsoil before striking a hard layer of chalk; others have gritty, light topsoil.

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Letchworth rainfall in 2019 was only 526 millimetres (20.7 inches.) We complain that we endure weeks with too much or too little rain. Generally our gardens are dry—and often windy. Growing a garden is a journey that never ends. Each season unpredicted things happen to delight or dismay the gardeners. This year the winter was very wet followed by a dry spring and a very hot end of May, so who knows what will be happening on June 30th!

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