National Garden Scheme: Highdown Gardens: Open Garden

Highdown Gardens 33 Highdown Rise, Littlehampton Road, Goring-by- Sea, Worthing, BN12 6FB.
Opens for NGS Wed 11, Thur 12 Feb (10am-4.30pm); Wed 29, Thur 30 Apr (10am-7pm). Adm by donation. For other opening times and information, please email or visit garden website.

Highdown Gardens were created by Sir Frederick Stern. They are home to rare plants and trees, many grown from seed collected by Wilson, Farrer and Kingdon-Ward. A
fully equipped glasshouse enables the propagation of this National Plant Collection. A visitor centre shares stories of the plants and people behind the gardens. An accessible path leads to a sensory garden with a secret sea view. Highdown is also offering Snowdrop Identification tours on 11 and 12 Feb and Peony Identification tours on 29 and 30 April, for more information and booking, see garden website. Accessible top pathway and lift to visitor centre, see garden website accessibility page for full details.

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/6351/highdown-gardens

Thanks to the generosity of garden owners, volunteers and visitors The National Garden Scheme have donated over £77.8 million to nursing and health charities and in 2025 made an annual donation of over £3.8 million. The core beneficiaries include Carer’s Trust, Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie, Hospice UK, Parkinson’s UK and The Queen’s Nursing Institute.

The National Garden Scheme doesn’t just open beautiful gardens for charity – they are passionate about the physical and mental health benefits of gardens too. They also support charities doing amazing work in gardens and health and grant bursaries to help community gardening projects.