Open Gardens
April to September 2026
Welcome to our Open Gardens 2026 season, proudly sponsored by NFU Mutual Plymouth. For the 2026 season we are delighted to present a bumper collection of beautiful gardens, carefully selected to inspire and captivate. The gardens on show this year are spread across the villages and rural communities where St Luke’s highly respected team looks after patients at home so that they can stay in familiar surroundings and close to loved ones.
Our Open Gardens are a unique opportunity to explore a variety of garden designs and planting schemes, with many not typically open to the public. They are a wonderful way for our supporters to help raise vital funds for our compassionate care.
We would like to thank all the visitors, garden owners and volunteers for making our Open Gardens scheme such a beloved and successful event over the past 15 years. Together you have raised more than £625,000 for our patient care.
We hope you enjoy exploring the gardens on offer this year. We encourage you to take part in our annual Open Gardens raffle, featuring fantastic prizes including the framed original artwork specially created for our brochure cover by our talented feature artist Jackie Gale.
For any inquiries regarding directions, accessibility, large groups or other information about the Open Gardens Scheme, please call 01752492626 during normal office hours.
Jackie Gale
We are excited to feature contemporary textile artist Jackie Gale, whose design appears on the cover of this year’s brochure. Based here in Devon, she is widely recognised for her vibrant and dynamic floral and seascape artworks, which draw deep inspiration from the stunning coastlines and picturesque countryside right on her doorstep.
Using textile materials, Jackie creates her own take on the natural world with a fresh and contemporary approach and while doing so, she gets great joy from breathing new life into discarded and salvaged fabrics. She describes fabric as her paint and thread as her paintbrush. Sustainability is a fundamental and deeply ingrained part of her creative ethos, guiding her artistic process.
The piece she has created for our brochure is called ‘Spring Garden’ and features oodles of vibrant rich textures, as well as many little creatures we hope you enjoy spotting. Jackie has supported St Luke’s with her art for many years and is absolutely delighted to be gracing our brochure cover.
Jackie is the resident artist at the wonderful Wildwood Arts Gallery in Horrabridge. She has her own studio there, where she creates and has a collection of her work on display. Visitors are always welcome Wednesday to Fridays (and by appointment).
You can view Jackie’s vibrant collections at her website www.jackiegaletextileart.com where you can also see her delightful new range of home and giftware, created from her artworks.
