Gardens in Dorset
The National Garden Scheme gives visitors unique access to 102 of the best private gardens in Dorset.
Your visits raise important funds for charitable causes across the UK through admissions, teas and cake - and in the majority of gardens children go free!
Thanks to the generosity of garden owners who freely give their time and energy to open their beautiful gardens with the National Garden Scheme we were able to donate over £3.5 million to vital nursing and health charities last year. We hope to top this in 2026 with yet more beautiful gardens open in Dorset for you to visit this year.
Highlights
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102Private Gardens to visit in Dorset
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46Historical Gardens in Dorset
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46Dog Friendly Gardens in Dorset
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17Child Friendly Gardens in Dorset
Browse our garden map to view all the gardens opening in Dorset in the next 28 days. You can change the date range or location to help you find what you are looking for.
The gardens below are listed in alphabetical order and some may have completed their openings for the year. You can view gardens open in Dorset within a specific time range here.
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Other garden locations
- Anglesey
- Avon
- Bedfordshire
- Berkshire
- Bristol
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Carmarthenshire
- Ceredigion
- Channel Islands
- Cheshire
- Cleveland
- Clwyd
- Cornwall
- County Antrim
- County Down
- County Durham
- County Fermanagh
- County Londonderry
- County Tyrone
- Cumbria
- Denbighshire
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Durham
- Dyfed
- East Riding
- East Sussex
- East Yorkshire
- Essex
- Flintshire
- Glamorgan
- Gloucestershire
- Gwent
- Gwynedd
- Hampshire
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Huntingdonshire
- Isle Of Scilly
- Isle of Wight
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- London
- Merionethshire
- Merseyside
- Mid Glamorgan
- Middlesex
- Montgomeryshire
- Norfolk
- North Humberside
- North Yorkshire
- Northamptonshire
- Northumberland
- Nottinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Pembrokeshire
- Powys
- Rutland
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- South Glamorgan
- South Gloucestershire
- South Humberside
- South Yorkshire
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Sussex
- Tyne And Wear
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Warwickshire
- West Glamorgan
- West Midlands
- West Sussex
- West Yorkshire
- Wiltshire
- Worcestershire
- Yorkshire
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