The following gardens are open for the National Gardens Scheme.

Saturday, May 23.

Hookhouse Pottery, Tetbury. The home of Christopher and Lise White, who established the pottery in 1975. The garden, which is worked organically, offers a pleasing contrast of intimate corners with open perspectives.

Perennial planting is designed to provide year-round interest, but it looks particularly fine in late May.

Expect to see borders, shrubs, a woodland glade, water garden, and a kitchen garden with raised beds. With the pottery to enjoy as well, this garden is a very special treat.

Open every day until Sunday, May 31. 11am-6pm. Admission £3.50, child free. Home-made teas.

Sunday, May 24.

Pasture Farm, Upper Oddington, near Moreton-in-Marsh.

The garden has evolved over the past 30 years in the hands of its current owners, who have created mixed borders and topiary, and have planted formal and informal hedging, an orchard and a wealth of garden trees.

The spring-fed pond is home to a collection of ducks.

Proceeds from the well-stocked plant stalls with herbaceous, shrubs and vegetables will go to Stow-on-the-Wold based charity, Kate’s Home Nursing.

Also open Monday, May 25. 11am-5.30pm. Admission £4, child free. Home-made teas.

Monday, May 25.

Lower Farm House, Cliffords Mesne, near Newent. Two acre garden with herbaceous borders, woodland, stream and lily pond with rockery and bog garden.

Look out for the collections of irises, hostas and paeonies, now at their best, as is the foliage of the magnolias and cornus.

Also open Wednesday, May 27 2-6pm. Admission £4, child free. Home-made teas.

Wednesday 27 May.

Brockworth Court, Court Road, Brockworth. also open on Wednesday 24 June, 2-5.30pm. This is a garden full of interesting contrasts.

Tapestry planting perfectly complements the period house, while a Monet-style bridge leads across to an island with a thatched Fiji house.

The kitchen garden was once cultivated by monks and homemade teas are served in the tithe barn.

Open 2-5.30pm. Admission £6, child free. Home-made teas in tithe barn.