Two of Rye’s most popular gardens for fund raising events and parties go head to head this Saturday (July 18) with Rye Castle Museum’s Garden Party in Rae Festing’s garden at 11 High Street and the Music Well’s Annual Open Garden in Andy Stuart’s Little Orchard House in West Street. The museum kicks off first with a range of stalls and refreshments from 10:30am to 1pm and is hoping for better weather than last year when, at the very last minute, heavy rain switched the venue to the museum’s East Street premises. The Music Well event is 11am-4pm and features live music as well as refreshments, writes Charles Harkness.