Nominations are now invited for two Professional Gardeners’ Guild Awards for 2015
Read more →Best wishes to you all for a very merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year and many thanks to all those who help to make the PGG such an interesting, lively and educational organisation and a great meeting point.
Read more →Order your exclusive, limited edition calendar of photographs taken by PGG members, featuring the winners of our recent photographic competition.
Read more →Following an extremely interesting and varied events schedule this year, your area Organisers have been busy planning more visits and events for 2015. Some of these are now open for booking so please have a look at the Events page and remember that places do fill up very quickly. If there’s a location you don’t want to miss you can book it now!
Read more →An event organised by the Women’s Farm & Garden Association A fantastic opportunity to learn from a master – Ian Webster is the retired Head Gardener from Chatsworth and an expert in Glasshouse Fruit and a Senior Garden Advisor. Also present will be Alan Mason retired Head gardener of Harlaxton
Read more →The major art installation ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ at the Tower of London, marks one hundred years since the first full day of Britain’s involvement in the First World War. Created by ceramic artist Paul Cummins, with setting by stage designer Tom Piper, 888,246 ceramic poppies will
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.
Read more →At time of writing, PGG Chairman Tony Arnold’s green antics to raise money for the Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Society, Perennial, has far exceeded the target and to date has raised a whopping £1,410.00. Well done to Tony and to everyone who has so generously donated. It must have taken quite
Read more →Tony Arnold, Chairman of the PGG, is very keen for everyone to get behind our ‘Go Green for HortAid’ campaign this year. And he’s willing to do his bit to go green if we can raise enough money. Lipstick and high heels If you want to see Tony wearing green
Read more →A message from Michael Walker – a serving member of the RHS Bursaries Committee – stating that there are too few ‘strong’ applications coming from historic and botanic gardens.
Read more →Shaftesbury’s Snowdrop Festival is playing host to its inaugural Snowdrop Study Day starting at 10.00am on Saturday 15 February 2014 up high in this Saxon market town.
Read more →Events are being added to the website all the time. Latest includes Mulgrave Castle which lies on the Yorkshire Coast just north of Whitby, Home of the Marquis of Normanby and the delightful sounding ‘Pleasure Grounds’. Be sure to get booked in time. Visit the ‘Events’ page for a complete
Read more →If you have news, photos, events to publicise or items of interest that you think other members will be keen to know about, then please send them to PGG Chairman Tony Arnold at chairman@pgg.org.uk and we’ll get them on to the PGG website.
Read more →We have a wonderful range of interesting and useful events lined up for you this year.
Read more →May I take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very happy and prosperous New Year.
Read more →Our latest event is a Masterclass being run by PGG member Laurie Eggerton on Garden Surveying.
Read more →The Finnis Scott Award: Staff development | Secondment | Career progression The Finnis Scott Award provides funding for professional gardener’s to spend time at other gardens in the UK. Funding covers the cost of travel and accommodation within the UK. The award is ideal for professional gardener’s looking to work
Read more →The PGG organised a meeting to two very different and very interesting walled gardens, one in West Sussex and the other in Kent. It was a great day out but only seven PGG members went – such a shame and a wasted opportunity. These meetings are organised for the members
Read more →An estate agent in Northumberland are selling a house near Berwick with a garden full of plant rarities – Trillium, Paris, Lilium, Primula, Rheum etc. and the owner has asked if any PGG members would like to take cuttings.
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