40th anniversary celebrations begin

Barnsdale Garden Celebrates Big Birthday With 40 Plants On Offer

March sees Barnsdale Gardens reopening to visitors full time from 9am-5pm, and it’s a big year for the attraction, as the team prepares to celebrate its 40th anniversary.

In 1983, Geoff Hamilton, the much-loved BBC Gardeners World presenter founded Barnsdale, developing the gardens from a pasture that he had ploughed. The BBC filmed there from the moment he moved in cementing Barnsdale as the new home of Gardeners’ World. Geoff’s down to earth style whilst filming each show made him a hit with the viewers.

Nick Hamilton now continues his father’s legacy at the helm of Barnsdale, and has kept the sustainable ethos alive. In fact, for over 30 years the gardens have been kept peat and chemical free.

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The 40th Anniversary will give the Barnsdale team a chance to celebrate Britain’s largest collection of individually designed gardens, and visitors can purchase 40 plants on special offer – one for ever year of the garden’s life – plus a Geoff Hamilton afternoon tea, competitions, and promotion of the eponymous Geoff Hamilton rose.