scotland
Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Westerhall Gardens
Kagyu Samye Ling Eskdalemuir, Langholm, United KingdomPGG visit to Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery, Eskdalemuir and Westerhall gardens, Dumfries and Galloway
Beatrix Potter Garden, Torwood House and the Mill of Forneath
Birnam Arts & Conference Centre Station Road, Birnam, Dunkeld, Perthshire, United KingdomPGG visit to Beatrix Potter Garden, Torwood House and the Mill of Forneath by Dunkeld, Perthshire
PGG AGM weekend 28–30 September 2018
Dumfries House Cumnock, East Ayrshire, United KingdomThe 2018 AGM long weekend starts on Friday 28th September with a visit to Drumlanrig Castle Gardens and Dabton Garden. On Saturday 29th we meet at Dumfries House for the AGM followed by tour of the gardens. Saturday evening will feature the Ron Nettle Memorial Dinner and Lecture. Sunday 30th details will follow shortly.
Stonefield Castle Hotel and Ormsary House
Stonefield Castle Hotel Tarbert, Loch Fyne, Argyll,, Scotland, United KingdomPGG 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.
The Japanese Gardens at Cowden and Rumbling Bridge Nursery
The Japanese Gardens at Cowden Cowden, Clackmannanshire, United KingdomPGG 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.
Cawdor Castle and Auchindoune Gardens
Cawdor Castle Nairn, United KingdomPGG 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.
Daffodil Festival, Backhouse Rossie Estate, Fife – CANCELLED
Backhouse Rossie Estate Backhouse Rossie Estate, Fife, United KingdomPGG visit to Scotland's Daffodil Festival - visitors will see these extraordinary daffodil breakthroughs as well as hundreds of different varieties of Narcissi including heritage, modern, scented as well as varieties most suited to rock gardens and pots.
Geilston Garden and Glenarn, Argyll – CANCELLED
Geilston Garden Main Road, Cardross, Dumbarton, United KingdomPGG visit to Geilston Garden, a classic garden with a vibrant feel, and then on to Glenarn, a west coast garden with rhododendrons, magnolias, eucryphias, and a host of other plants.
Mountain Walk, Perthshire – CANCELLED
Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve Killin, United KingdomPGG mountain walk, Ben Lawers, Perthshire - the mountain of Ben Lawers (Gaelic -“the hoof”) by the side of Loch Tay in Perthshire is one of the best sites for alpine and arctic plants in Britain.
Cambo and Wormistoune Gardens
Cambo The Stables Visitor Centre, Cambo Gardens, Kingsbarns, St Andrews, Fife, United KingdomPGG visit to Cambo, a 2.5 acre walled garden dates from the 1800’s; and Wormistoune Gardens, a 17th century Scot’s tower house and gardens.
Scotland’s Daffodil Festival
Scotland's Daffodil Festival Backhouse Rossie Estate, Fife, United KingdomScotland's Daffodil Festival - visitors will see these extraordinary daffodil breakthroughs as well as hundreds of different varieties of Narcissi including heritage, modern, scented as well as varieties most suited to rock gardens and pots.
Achamore Gardens
Achamore Gardens Isle of Gigha, United KingdomAchamore Gardens are to be found on the idyllic Isle of Gigha, some three miles from the western peninsular of Kintyre. Gigha is seven miles long and a mile wide. The community-owned island has a population of 160. With stunning views to the Paps of Jura, Ben More on Mull and Goatfell on Arran. Blessed with fertile soil, acid sandy loam with either a clay or gravel subsoil. Influenced by the Gulf Stream frosts are rare and snow rarely seen.
MacRobert Trust and Crathes Castle
The MacRobert Trust Cromar, Tarland, Aberdeenshire, United KingdomPGG visit to The MacRobert Trust and then on to Crathes Castle in the afternoon
Gordon Castle Walled Garden & Glen Grant Distillery Victorian Gardens.
Gordon Castle Walled Garden A96, Fochabers, United KingdomPGG visit to Gordon Castle Walled Garden and Glen Grant Distillery Victorian Gardens.
PGG AGM 2022
Kingsknowes Hotel Selkirk Road, Galashiels, Scottish Borders, United KingdomKingsknowes Hotel, Galashiels (left), Abbotsford (centre), Mertoun walled garden (right) or send payment by cheque made payable to ‘The Professional Gardeners’ Guild’ to Colin Carmichael, Selma, Old Crieff Road, Aberfeldy, Perthshire, PH15 2DH The committee are pleased to announce that this year the Annual General Meeting will be held on
Backhouse Rossie Estate
Backhouse Rossie Estate Backhouse Rossie Estate, Fife, United KingdomCome to the Spring Festival featuring the only National Scientific Collection of Narcissus in the UK.
Wemyss Castle Gardens
Wemyss Castle Gardens Wemyss Castle, Fife, United KingdomPGG visit to Wemyss Castle Gardens - ‘One of the horticultural wonders of Scotland’. 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 became largely redundant but since 1993 it has been lovingly overhauled and redesigned by Charlotte Wemyss.
Blair Castle Gardens
Blair Castle Gardens Blair Atholl, PitlochryBlair Castle stands as the focal point in a designed landscape of some 2,500 acres within a Highland estate.
Pitmuies Gardens and Hospitalfield Gardens and Fernery
Pitmuies Gardens Guthrie, By Forfar, Angus, United KingdomPGG visit to Pitmuies Gardens and Gardyne Castle, one of the most attractive small castles in Angus
Keltneyburn Nature Reserve and Frennich, Foss
Aberfeldy Aberfeldy, United KingdomPGG visit to Keltneyburn Nature Reserve and Frennich, Foss near Aberfeldy, Perthshire.