Take inspiration for your own patch with a stroll around one of the region’s most splendid gardens, open to the public this weekend.

Penn Gardens, Vicarage Road and Church Hill, Wolverhampton. Open 12-4pm tomorrow and Sunday for St Bartholomew’s Flower Festival, admission £2.

Morville Hall Gardens. Open Sunday for the NGS, 2-5pm, admission £2.50, children £1.

Westacres, Wolverhampton, Prestwood, near Stourton. Open tomorrow and Sunday, 11-5pm, admission £2.50, children free.

Grafton Cottage, Barton-under-Needwood, near Lichfield. Open Sunday 1.30-5.30pm.

Lilac Cottage, Chapel Lane, Gentleshaw, near Lichfield. Open Sunday 1.30-5.30pm, admission £2.50, children free.

The Mount, Coton, Gnosall. Open Sunday 2-5.30pm, admission £2.50, children free.

Hall Green Gardens, in the Burmaston Road area of Birmingham. Open Sunday 2-6pm combined entry £3.

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