PGG visit to Stonefield Castle Hotel woodland gardens – a fantastic example of a striking and colourful Scottish Garden and Ormsary House on the shore of Loch Caolisport looking across to Islay and Jura.

PGG visit to Renishaw Hall and Cantley Hall . Home to the Sitwell family for nearly 400 years, Renishaw Hall and Gardens is predominantly an Italianate garden set in a traditional English countryside. Cantley Hall is a mainly Georgian house with Victorian additions set in approximately one hundred acres of parkland containing many fine specimen trees.

PGG visit to Deer Rudding and Askham Hall. 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 gardens surrounding Askham Hall are grade II listed and include terraces of herbaceous borders and yew topiary dating back to the 17th Century.

PGG visit to The Japanese Gardens at Cowden, a seven acre site in the grounds of Cowden Castle, thirty miles north west of Edinburgh. And Rumbling Bridge Nursery which houses an interesting collection of rarer shrubs and plants as well as the nursery.

PGG visit to Tusmore Park - the tour will focus on the formal gardens, part way through a major re-design by Tom Stuart-Smith.

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 smaller areas, each with its own style.

PGG visit to Cawdor Castle which boasts three very different gardens. the Walled Garden, the Flower Garden and the Wild Garden. And then on to Auchindoune Gardens which has a Tibetan garden, a formal and vegetable gardens, an orchard and arboretum.

Burghley House is a Tudor mansion built by Sir William Cecil over a period of 32 years from 1563 onwards. The gardens and wider parklands were largely designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown in the 18th century.