WHEN you think of a bog garden you imagine a soggy patch of garden with bull rushes and grasses - certainly not what a nurse at St Margaret's Somerset Hospice has created at her home in Stoke-sub-Hamdon.

But her green-fingered imagination has conjured up the master of all 'bog' gardens complete with beds of potties, urinals and bedpans and they are all nestling in among the sweet peas!

Druscilla Perry's bog garden is the main feature in this year's Stoke-sub-Hamdon Village Open Gardens which from 10am to 5pm on Sunday, July 7.

Nurse Druscilla has designed her diamond shaped raised bed on the patio with electricity cleverly connected through the toilet so that that the loo seat and lid forms part of the fountain.

To raise additional funds for the Hospice a quirky competition has been designed by the gardening club committee for visitors on the day and it is all connected to the boggy theme.

All money raised during the day will be donated to the Village Sports and Recreation Fund and St Margaret's Somerset Hospice Yeovil Appeal.

More than 12 gardens will be open during the day will be open. Programmes are priced £2 for adults and free for children and available from the Memorial Hall in Stoke which will allow you entry to all the gardens.