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Lawson Park and Brantwood are two gardens reasonably close to my home, regularly open to the public…so why would I want to spend the whole of a sunny Sunday visiting them with PGG members? I hear you ask. A special day After all, there’s weeding and mowing, greenhouse watering and
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Blair Castle stands as the focal point in a designed landscape of some 2,500 acres within a Highland estate. The Hercules Garden is a walled garden of about nine acres recently restored to its original 18th-century design with landscaped ponds, a Chinese bridge, contemporary plantings, vegetables and an orchard of
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Sunday the 16th April 2023. Fourteen members and friends arrived on an overcast morning in the carpark of the Backhouse of Rossie. We were shown into an old hay barn which had been converted into a wedding venue by the owners, Caroline and Andrew Thomson. Here teas, coffees, biscuits and
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Friday the 26th of May. The grounds at Wemyss Castle have been gardened formally since the 17th century, each generation introducing their own aesthetics and ideas. After the second world war the walled garden at Wemyss Castle became largely redundant. Since 1993 it has been lovingly overhauled and redesigned by
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Photos from the 2022 PGG Annual General Meeting held on 24th September at the Kingsknowes Hotel, Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.
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We had high expectations of this visit and with members from as far away as west Wales and East Anglia and as the visit unfolded we were not disappointed. After an introductory talk by the Head Gardener he took us on a magical tour of the gardens and arboretum explaining everything on the
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We arrived at Three Hagges on what looked to be a promising day and we were not to be disappointed. It began with a talk from the owner about the concept and planning of what to do with ‘reclaimed’ agricultural land concept through species selection, planting and sowing. The area now becoming established
Read more →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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