Photographs from the PGG visit to Branklyn Gardens in Perth on May 14th 2016 to see the outstanding collection of plants – particularly rhododendrons, alpines, herbaceous and peat-garden plants.
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Photographs from the PGG visit on 14th May 2016 to Scone Palace in Perth, the crowning place of Scottish kings where Macbeth, Robert the Bruce and Charles II were once crowned.
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Photographs from the PGG visit to on 13th May 2016 to Bowood House and Gardens in Wiltshire set in the middle of Capability’ Brown’s grade 1 park.
Read more →Photographs from the PGG visit to Tilgate Park, Sussex. On Saturday 7th November a group of hardy PGGer’s arrived at Nymans garden in Sussex for a planned trip only to told that the garden was closed due to the high winds. So in true PGG style member Nick Hagon took
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Photos from the PGG visit to the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire on October 24th 2015. It rained all day making it a cold, miserable day. But those who braved the elements in true PGG style were impressed and moved by the grounds and all the ‘quirky’ stories and reasons
Read more →Another successful weekend where both groups of trainees were joined by trainees from the McRobert trust in Scotland. The group visited the RHS garden at Wisley where they were shown round by Sheila Daz and two Wisley students. They visited West Dean gardens and Sarah Win the Head Gardener of
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Photos from the PGG visit to Floors Castle, Roxburghshire in the beautiful Scottish Borders for their AGM on Saturday 3rd October 2015. PGG Awards Susan Russell (Culzean Castle) receives the Loyal Service Award from PGG founder Brian Hutchinson Andrew Humphris (Wollerton Old Hall) receives the Loyal Service Award from PGG
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Photos from the visit to Mellerstain arranged for the AGM weekend by Susan Russell which included a tour by PGG member, Gordon Low.
Read more →Photographs from the PGG visit to Holkham Hall, a grand palladian mansion designed by William Kent for Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester. Members were invited by PGG member and head gardener Phillip Oldham to tour the gardens, the private arboretum (only opened twice a year) and the estates forestry
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Photographs from the Southern area meeting at Eythrope in Buckinghamshire and Le Manoir in Oxfordshire on the 18th September 2015. Eythrope Le Manoir
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Photos of the PGG visit to the 42 acres of gardens at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire followed by a visit to Knebworth House gardens also in Hertfordshire.
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Photos of PGG visit to Yewbarrow House in Grange Over Sands in the south of the Lake District. The house is the home of Margaret & Jonathan Denby and their garden has plants more akin to growing conditions associated with Cornwall than Cumbria.
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Photos from the PGG visit to Leighton Hall on the 26th June 2015. Situated in the south of the Lake District the hall is the ancestral home of the Gillow family, best known as cabinet makers and upholsterers, the location is set in stunning surroundings, the garden was laid out
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Photos from the PGG visit to Sissinghurst Gradens on the 6th June 2015. The gardens are set in a series of ten separate gardens, each individually landscaped to reflect the romance and intimacy of Sackville-West poems and writings. Located in the Weald of Kent it is owned and maintained by
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Photographs of the PGG visit to the gardens and house of writer Christopher Lloyd which are under the stewardship of Fergus Garrett and the Great Dixter Charitable Trust. The garden is a centre of education and a place of pilgrimage for horticulturists from across the world. Keeping to the original
Read more →Photographs of the PGG visit to Craig Y Bwla, Crickhowell on 17th October 2014.
Read more →Photographs of the visit by the PGG to The Pant, Abergavenny on 17th October 2014.
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The 2014 AGM of the Professional Gardeners’ Guild was held at The Grove Hotel in Hertfordshire where David Roberts PGG member and Head Gardener has overseen much of the restoration work that’s gone on over recent years.
Read more →For the four days from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th September the current PGG trainees, along with the current one year HBGBS students, and four students from the McRobert Trust in Aberdeenshire, all attended the annual trainee seminar held at Dunford House Conference Centre in Midhurst, West Sussex. The long
Read more →The last week of March 2014 saw five PGG trainees fly off to Sintra in Portugal for the week, for the wonderful opportunity of visiting the area and working in the beautiful garden at the Palace of Monserratte.
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