GARDENS across the Cotswolds will be throwing open their doors on June 6 and 7.

 

The third National Gardens Festival Weekend sees people opening up their gardens for the public to enjoy.

 

Two gardens are opening near the Prince of Wales’s home at Highgrove.

 

Peonies and iris borders are the main feature of the garden at Ashley Grange at Ashley, Tetbury, while Dillycot, Culkerton, near Ashley, is a potager garden with flowers, fruit and vegetables. Both open 2-5.30pm.

 

Matara Gardens of Wellbeing, at Kingscote, Tetbury, is dedicated to the symbolic, spiritual and cultural role of trees.

 

Visitors can wander through a variety of gardens that take their inspiration from the Far East. Open 1-5pm.

 

In Avening, near Tetbury, 18 Star Lane’s hillside garden is overflowing with cottage plants. Open 2-6pm.

 

Owner Anita Collins, describes the garden as “a romantic plant lover’s paradise grown over a time on a limited budget”.

 

The rose beds and herbaceous borders are peaking now at Kempsford Manor, High Street, Kempsford, near Fairford. Open 2-5pm.

 

For more information visit www.ngs.org.uk.