Open garden gate
Open garden gate is the name of a nationwide movement of garden owners and allotment gardeners who, in the summer months, usually make their garden area available to the public free of charge for viewing and exchanging information.
history
United Kingdom
The history of the "Open Gardens" originally goes back to an initiative in England. In 1927, the National Gardens Scheme Charitable Trust was established in memory of Queen Alexandra .
The queen, who died in 1925, was always committed to the poor and the sick. On the occasion of the "Open Gardens" campaign, garden owners opened their attractive private gardens to visitors on certain days with the aim of combining the experience with the useful and donating the entrance fees to an aid fund for nursing. In England and Wales , around 4,000 gardens participate in the National Gardens Scheme NGS each year and are visited by over two million gardening enthusiasts. This successful idea caught on in many countries around the world and came to Germany via Australia, the USA, the Netherlands and Belgium.
German-speaking area
At the beginning of the 1990s, the Open Gardens campaign was first picked up in northern Germany and then quickly spread to all parts of the Federal Republic. After 20 years there are around 35 gardening initiatives in Lower Saxony. In Germany, entry to the gardens is partially free. However, according to the original idea, many garden owners donate the entrance fees to charitable or social institutions.
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- North Rhine-Westphalia : After the "Open Gardens" campaign in Münsterland and the Lower Rhine has attracted large numbers of visitors for years, more and more garden owners are now opening their gates in cities in the Ruhr area, such as in the Recklinghausen district . The success shows the interest and the desire of many garden lovers to be able to visit other gardens. In 2007 the action took place in many towns in the district. There are now similar initiatives in Westphalia , Bochum , Lippe , and in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district ,
- Hessen ,
- Thuringia ,
- Berlin-Brandenburg (since 2004),
- Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein
- in Switzerland .
The different projects are called open gate , open garden door , day of open gardens or looking over fences .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ NGS
- ↑ Open garden gate in the Recklinghausen district and the surrounding area
- ^ Gardens in Westphalia
- ↑ Open Gardens Bochum
- ↑ Open gardens in Lippe
- ^ Day of the Waldeck-Frankenberg Open Gardens
- ^ Open garden gate Hessen
- ↑ Thuringia Open Gardens
- ^ Open Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg , accessed on June 14, 2014
- ^ Open gardens HH and Schleswig-Holstein , accessed on June 14, 2014.
- ↑ Open gardens in Switzerland