The gardens were:

Bryan and Cynthia Wardley's garden at 19 Polstead Road combines Japanese ideas with the use of Alpines and small plants. Cynthia will also be opening her pottery.

 Martin Haward, a Chelsea medal winner, has designed Jane Martineau’s garden at 24 Polstead Road. It has a very interesting formal layout. By popular request it is open to see the development two years on.

 Liz Wade’s garden at 28 Polstead Road where a Bouncy castle will help keep the children happy.

Julia and Anthony Aston Smith’s garden at 32 Chalfont Road offers old and new roses and other fragrant plants in a simple and peaceful setting

Tony and Pam Buley at 37 Burgess Mead have created a unique Japanese formal courtyard garden.

 Ruth Jones’s garden at 7 Chalfont Road has no design or plan. They adapted what was there when they arrived, always maintaining space for the kids and growing flowers.

 Clare Hollander’s garden at 23 Chalfont Road is a plant-lover’s garden with terrace, mixed border and potager

 Heather Veevers at 73 Hayfield Road gives an example of a long narrow garden, divided so that it effectively “widens” without blocking the view to the canal. Only re-structured 2 years ago, it is still very much in progress. Includes several small sculptures by the owner.

 Diana Hiddleston’s back garden at 2 Chalfont Road has been laid out hopefully to give a sense of flow in what is essentially along thin space. Plants are grouped together in the border to send the eye forward, so that whichever end of the garden you sit there is a slightly different mood. Parts of it are also left wild underplanted with bulbs for at least half of the year. There are also two old apple trees from the original orchard on which the house was built, which provide welcome shade and a place to swing a hammock!