TWO Cornish gardens are opening as part of the National Garden Scheme (NGS) on Sunday, June 1.

Taking place at Gardens Cottage, near St Blazey, between 10am to 5pm, visitors can enjoy delicious teas and coffee, cakes, light lunches, cream teas and ice creams and Plants will also be for sale.

Toby Buckland's BBC Radio programme will be broadcast live from the garden from 10am. Dogs on leads are welcome.

Formal and informal areas of the garden are enhanced with sculpture, and with its abundant herbaceous borders, dry terraces, courtyard garden, woodland glade, wildlife pond, beehives, orchard, fruit and kitchen garden.

Meanwhile, Boscrowan garden, near Penzance, is offering a riot of colour between 2pm to 6pm.

With a love of colour and a passion for plants, David and Elizabeth Harris have transformed Boscrowan from a derelict market garden into a wildlife-friendly garden full of colour.

Roses, poppies and alliums all jostle for position followed by hydrangeas and salvias as the colour palette changes throughout the summer.

Brought up on her parents’ Cornish nursery, Elizabeth has inherited the horticultural genes, as there’s nothing she likes more than sowing seeds and propagating plants in her greenhouse.

Light refreshments will be on offer and dogs are welcome.

The NGS gives visitors unique access to 71 of the best private gardens in Cornwall and every visit from members of the public supports the work of amazing health and nursing charities.

For more information on NGS, visit: findagarden.ngs.org.uk