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Winners Revealed

Thousands of you voted for your favourite gardens that open for the National Garden Scheme. Now we can reveal the winners of 2021’s Nation’s Favourite Gardens competition, supported by Agriframes and Sisley Garden Tours. There are six regional winners, one overall champion and a winning Public Garden that usually opens to the public but donates takings from a particular day (or days) to the Scheme.

Turn over to discover these seven superb gardens, and learn about the gardeners who created them.

St Timothee, Berkshire

Overall Winner & Regional Winner: South East

It’s not so long ago that the view from Sarah and Sal Pajwani’s 1930s house in Pinkneys Green took in dilapidated outbuildings and a field-like lawn dotted with clumps of 1970s-planted pampas grass. Luckily, there were also lovely mature trees and lots of scope to create a garden that was closer to Sarah’s vision.

The house sits in the centre of the plot, with views of the garden from all the windows, so the planting had to look good all year round. In spring, inherited x .

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