Kevin De-Voy and Stephen Walker opened their garden at St Wolstan’s House in Wigston Magna to raise money for the National Garden Scheme (NGS, also known as the yellow book) charity. In addition to raising money for the NGS, each year Kevin and Stephen pick another charity to benefit from the sale of homemade teas at the garden openings. Kevin De-Voy and Stephen Walker, together with Stephen’s mum Pauline Walker, presenting a cheque for £1,400 to some of the staff at Bright H

Saturday 19th September 6:30 pm to 9 pm, part of the National Garden Scheme in aid of charity. Open Gardens at St. Wolstan's House Video taken 19th September 2026 by Russell Thorpe for LM News Approx ½ acre garden divided into garden rooms with formal and informal planting featuring specimen Sequoia sempervirens and Cedrus libani. Inc formal white garden, rose garden, sunken Italian garden with Triton fountain, lawned area surrounded by mixed border and paths with rose and wi

St Wolstan's House was built in 1856 as a farmhouse and replaced a previous house. In 1839 the farm had 145 acres, with the fields laid out in a straight line behind the house stretching towards Oadby and in 1945 it had just under 100 acres. The farmyard buildings, which were behind the house where the flats in Boulter Crescent now stand, were still in existence in the 1970s. The only building left is the original laundry that is built on a vaulted brick cellar which collects