This was the first PGG meeting since the easing of lock down restrictions and 20 members took the opportunity to make the trip to Weston Park in Shropshire. We arrived in the rain and left in the rain, slightly damp but in high spirits. We’d done what PGG’s love best..
Read more →Pershore trained and with over a decade of professional experience I was confident that my rose pruning was really rather good. Did I need a workshop on roses? Probably not, but there was a good lunch promised.
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Photos from the Professional Gardeners’ Guild 2019 AGM Mill Barn Cliveden Eythrope Gardens Waddesdon Manor
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Photos from the PGG Study Tour of South Wales in September 2019 which included visits to a cross section of gardens ancient and modern in the south of Wales, to see Victorian plant collecting and rockwork, high formality from Medieval and Edwardian times to the twentieth century, planting by major
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Photos from the PGG visit to Burghley House on 12th July 2019 – a Tudor mansion built by Sir William Cecil over a period of 32 years from 1563 onwards.
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Photos from the PGG visit to Auchindoune Gardens on the 6th July. Auchindoune has a Tibetan garden, a formal and vegetable gardens, an orchard and arboretum.
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Photos from the PGG visit to Cawdor Castle which boasts three very different gardens. the Walled Garden, the Flower Garden and the Wild Garden.
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Photos from the PGG Visit to David Austin Roses on 28th June 2019. David Austin Roses have created a large rose garden which many consider to be one of the most beautiful in the world with over 700 different varieties of roses the garden is divided into a number of
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Photos from the PGG visit to Tusmore Park on 26th June, 2019. These few pictures do not do the garden proud. A fantastic garden with some of the best and highest level of maintenance we’ve ever seen. With much work still in progress I can’t wait wait for a second
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Photos of the PGG visit on 7th June 2019 to Petworth House with Head Gardener Jonathan Arnold.
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Photos from the PGG visit on 7th June to Trotton Place, a privately owned working garden encompassing almost 9 acres of ornamental borders, lawns, meadows, topiary and water features, with a large walled kitchen garden at its heart producing fruit, vegetables and cut flowers.
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Photos from the PGG visit on 6th June 2019 to The Japanese Gardens at Cowden, a seven acre site in the grounds of Cowden Castle and Rumbling Bridge Nursery which has an interesting collection of rarer shrubs and plants as well as the nursery.
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Stonefield Castle A wet day on the west coast of Scotland did not deter a dedicated group of PGG members exploring this neglected but wonderful garden and plant collection on the west coast of Scotland. The garden contains a wide and varied plant collection with many original plants from the
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Photographs from the PGG visit to Deer Rudding and Askham Hall on the 24th May 2019. Deer Rudding is a private 8 acre garden set in the lee of the Northern lake District fells, the garden surrounds a former Cumbrian farmhouse and outbuildings with an excellent selection of planting.The formal
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A good visit to Renishaw Hall and an opportunity visit a garden which we’d not visited for a long while. The day started out quite chilly but turned into a great spring day. The gardens were in great condition and the Head Gardener took us round giving a great overview
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A glorious start to this year’s meetings was held at Barnsdale Gardens in Rutland, home of the late Geoff Hamilton – author, TV presenter of Gardeners World, and a real gardening gent. We were shown round in wonderful sunshine by Geoff’s son Nick who now runs Barnsdale Gardens and plant
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Photos of the awards presentations at the AGM. All were taken at Dumfries house. Margi Comeau being thanked and presented with a token of appreciation after retiring from the post of PGG Secretary a role she had held for 9 years. Claire Mountfield who works at Cholmondeley Castle in Cheshire
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Photos from the 2018 PGG AGM at Drumlandrig Castle.
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Photos from the PGG visit to Nant y Bedd in South Wales on the 21st July, a 6½ acre garden set high in the Black Mountains owned by Sue and Ian Mabberly.
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