Homes along Thorngate, The Bank, The Demesnes and Newgate will be open from 2pm to 5pm when people will be able to see a diverse range of garden designs.
Cash raised from the independent garden open day will go to the North East Air Ambulance Service (GNASS) and the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Trust.
The trust is the only UK charity to raise awareness and support for a chronic skin disorder, which appears as a boil-like abscess in the apocrine gland bearing areas, such as the armpits, breasts and groin.
The open day is organised by a committee of Barnard Castle residents Annie Clouston, Bobbie Allen and Mike Way. Mrs Clouston and her husband Jim moved to their home at 27 Thorngate about three years ago.
She said: “We have just such lovely neighbours – they have been so helpful and willing to do stuff. It is just fantastic and captures the spirit of the open gardens.
“People have volunteered their gardens because they love them and want to greet people into them to exchange ideas and have a sociable time. The gardens are varied, from small walled gardens to grander spaces. Some have overcome challenges to conventional gardening.”
Along with viewing gardens, people will be greeted with a glass of Pimms in Newgate.
They will also have the opportunity to visit a plant stall and book stall, a table top sale, and take part in a tombola.
Entertainment on the afternoon is by musical ensemble Grace Notes.
A programme of the day will be available at Amen Corner.
Homes taking part are
34 The Bank: A beautiful terraced garden, full of interest, sun traps and with water features. Book stall here
44 The Bank: A courtyard garden with different levels with light and shade
46 The Bank: A garden undergoing renewal work by new owners who describe it as very much work in progress
8 Thorngate: A typical English walled garden, plus plant stall
Rear of 8 Thorngate: An inspiring productive and lush vegetable garden
The Blue Bell: A pub courtyard bursting with colour mainly from containers
11 Thorngate: “A weaver’s cottage garden” full of colour and a haven of tranquillity. Tombola here.
19 Thorngate: A peaceful place to sit with the challenges of sun and shade. Thorngate has a number of weavers’ cottages of which this is one. The owner is a 21st century weaver and will have her looms in the garden to show how she works.
23 Thorngate: Walk through the passage of this 17th Century cottage to discover not the “communal dung-heap” as of old but a walled courtyard garden in the French style.
27 Thorngate: A riot of a garden, full and uncontained. The emphasis here is to attract birds, bees and butterflies to a small walled garden
31-33 Thorngate: A large garden, redesigned in 2009 for easy maintenance and provision of all year round colour, with scents to attract bees and butterflies
Ground floor stairwell Thorngate Mill: This area shows what can be done with perseverance in an unpromising environment – complete shade.
32 Thorngate Place: A small and very varied modern plot, built for low maintenance, with raised beds.
Ivy Cottage, the Demesnes: A cottage garden with an emphasis on roses – “the blowsier the better”. Expect some lovely scents.
39 and 39A Newgate: Two adjoining gardens alive with colour. These are the largest of the gardens that are open, and represent years of dedicated gardening.
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