Heritage Open Days 2022 – Theme ‘Astounding Inventions’
Saturday 10th and Saturday 17th September 2022
Friends of the Storey Gardens volunteers were in The Tasting Garden on Saturday 10th and Saturday 17th September 2022. The weather was fine and over the two days we welcomed 416 visitors.
As the Friends of the Storey Gardens, we decided to make our astounding invention the Georgian wall that separates the Copper Beech Garden from The Tasting Garden.
The wall is constructed of local stone on The Tasting Garden side and lined with brick on the Copper Beech Garden side. From 1720 to the 1950s the gardens belonged to a Georgian house opposite Lancaster Castle. Until the 1930s The Tasting Garden was the kitchen garden. The Copper Beech Garden was used by the family for recreational purposes with its fashionable patterned brick garden wall.
On the first Saturday The Bay: A blueprint for recovery joined us and explained their free Nature and Wellbeing Programme to visitors. The Bay holds sessions in the Storey Gardens and are growing vegetables in some of the border areas of The Tasting Garden.
The Friends of the Storey Gardens had a range of plants for sale. Apples, pears, damsons, beans and RHS flower cards were available. See a selection of the many photographs taken over the two days in the slideshow below.
Preparing the table under the FOSG gazebo for visitors. Photo by Devon Harris. 
Preparing the table under the FOSG gazebo. Photo by Candice Chen. 
Plants for Sale area in the Cooper Beech Garden. Photo by Devon Hariis. 
Two volunteers ready to greet visitors to The Tasting Garden. Photo by Chris Wright 
RHS postcards. Photo by Candice Chen. 
Awaiting visitors. Photo by Grace Ho. 
Greeting a visitor at the gazebo. Photo by Grace Ho. 
The FOSG gazebo with visitors. Photo by Chris Wright. 
The FOSG banner by the steps from Meeting House Lane. Photo by Devon Harris. 
‘The Bay: A blueprint for recovery’ gazebo in the Copper Beech Garden. Photo by Devon Harris. 
Welcoming visitors. Photo by Chris Wright 
Explaining the garden to visitors. Photo by Chris Wright. 
Apples ready for visitors to taste. Photo by Candice Chen. 
Photo by Chris Wright. 
Down by the Meeting House Lane steps. Photo by Chris Wright. 
Showing visitors one of the memorial stones. Photo by Chris Wright 
Photo by Chris Wright. 
Picking some more apples for visitors. Photo by Clive Cox. 
Photo by Candice Chen. 
A photogenic visitor. Photo by Devon Harris. 
Shadows on the past – highlighting the Georgian wall. Photo by Chris Wright. 
Chinese visitors to The Tasting Garden with Candice. Photo by Chris Wright. 
Jarrod and Clive. Photo by Devon Harris. 
Four of our volunteers at the end of the day. Photo by Chris Wright. 
Our treasurer counting the donations at the end of the day. Photo by Chris Wright.