A local charity is unearthing hidden gems in the form of Cornwall's lesser-known gardens through their Open Garden Scheme.
The Merlin MS Centre is fundraising by encouraging people to visit the county's well-known and still to be discovered gardens. The first garden to open their doors this year for the MS Centre's Open Garden Scheme is Lawithick Garden in Penarrow Road, Mylor.
Visitors are welcome to enjoy a cream tea in the garden, which is incorporated in a three quarter acre area with an old orchard overlooking the Fal Estuary.
All funds raised from the Open Garden Scheme will go to support the Merlin MS Centre, which provides a range of treatments, therapies and support to people in Cornwall with a range of neurological conditions, particularly Multiple Sclerosis. Other conditions supported by the centre include Parkinson’s, Stroke, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME.
Lawithick Garden will be opening its doors on Sunday, May 29 from 2pm to 5pm to raise money for the Merlin MS Centre.
The charity would like to hear from any green-fingered gardeners who would like their garden to be included in the scheme.
As the charity receives no Government funding to meet its annual running costs of £400,000 it relies on the hire of its conference and therapy rooms, grants and fundraising activities to meet these costs.
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