A COUNTY stately home will play host to the British Red Cross' annual fundraiser in April next year.

The Great Spring Gardening Event will return for its seventeenth year, taking place in the private gardens of Hampton Court Castle near Leominster.

The gardens will be opened to the public to host more than 80 exhibitors with funds raised for local Red Cross services including support at home after a stay in hospital, wheelchair loans and transport to medical appointments.

The event will run from 10.30am to 4.30pm on Wednesday April 30 2014.

Admission is £7.50 per person on the day or £6.00 in advance – tickets can be bought online from January 2014 at redcross.org.uk/gardeningevent.