COMMEMORATIVE trees have been planted in a hotel garden to celebrate it opening its grounds for charity for more than 30 years.

Luxury hotel Tylney Hall is situated on 66 acres of parkland and gardens in Hook.

Its grounds feature an Italian garden, rose gardens, a boathouse lake, a tea house and vita, Dutch gardens, orchards, water gardens and more. 

Several times a year it holds an open garden event as part of the National Garden Scheme where visitors are invited in to wander around the grounds in exchange for a donation.  

Louise Gerard, hotel administrator, said: "The National Garden Scheme gives visitors unique access to over 35,00 exceptional private gardens in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Channel Islands and rises money for nursing and health charities.

"Tylney Hall was being presented with two cork oak trees for Tylney Hall’s recognition of opening the gardens for charity for over 30 years."

The garden team at Tylney Hall was presented with the trees on Friday, March 3 by Mark Porter, the county organiser of the National Garden Scheme.

The National Gardens Scheme started in 1927. It asks people to open up their gardens to raise money for charity, and each year more than 3,500 places do exactly that. 

Since its foundation, the National Gardens Scheme has donated over £67m to its beneficiary charities, with £3.11m being raised last year alone. 

Core beneficiaries include Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie, Hospice UK and The Queen’s Nursing Institute.

Tylney Hall’s next open gardens events will be on Sunday, April 16, Sunday, May 14 and Sunday, June 11.

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Tylney Hall opened as a hotel and restaurant in 1985. A mansion has been on the site since 1561, with the first Tylney Hall being built in 1700. 

The estate has a long and interesting history and even serves as a hospital during the First World War. During the Second World War it became the headquarters for the shipping line, the Clan Line Steamers. Then in 1948 it became a school. 

For more, go to tylneyhall.co.uk.