To be held at the Mercure Shrewsbury Albrighton Hall Hotel and Spa, a beautiful 18th century manor house nestled in 15 acres of grounds with an ornamental lake. Highlights will include guided tour of Hodnet Hall gardens and Dingle Gardens in Shrewsbury’s Quarry Park.
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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.
Read more →Kingsknowes Hotel, Galashiels (left), Abbotsford [Photo: Abbotsford Trust] (centre), Mertoun walled garden [Photo: Rupert Norris] (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
Read more →Nestled within historic parkland the 70 acres of beautiful gardens offer magnificent displays through the seasons and are filled with colour and botanical delights.
Read more →Drinks reception and Annual dinner (including wine) followed by Toast, speeches followed by Michael Walker, PGG Member who will give the Ron Nettle Memorial Lecture.
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Photos from the Professional Gardeners’ Guild 2019 AGM Mill Barn Cliveden Eythrope Gardens Waddesdon Manor
Read more →PGG visit to Mill Barn, Weston Turville, a brand new conversion of a Grade ll eighteenth century barn sitting on a two acre plot, half farmyard and paddock.
Read more →Annual dinner followed by Ron Nettle Memorial Lecture. The speaker is Dr Mark Spencer F.L.S., Forensic Botanist, Hon. Curator (Plants), Linnean Society of London Scientific Associate, Natural History Museum, London. His talk is entitled ‘Herbariums and Garden History, the Fulham Palace Experience’.
Read more →PGG AGM 2019 – Visit to Cliveden, a large garden set high above the River Thames with stunning views to the south and west.
Read more →This year’s AGM Meeting is on the morning of Saturday 5th October starting at 10.00am including a presentation by Perennial at 12.15pm.
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Photos of the awards presentations at the AGM. All were taken at Dumfries house. Margi Comeau being thanked and presented with a token of appreciation after retiring from the post of PGG Secretary a role she had held for 9 years. Claire Mountfield who works at Cholmondeley Castle in Cheshire
Read more →Photos from the 2018 PGG AGM at Drumlandrig Castle.
Read more →The 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.
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The Yorkshire Arboretum at Castle Howard is a stunning landscape of parkland, lakes and ponds and is the backdrop for a collection of more than 6,000 trees from around the world.
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Photos from the 2017 AGM meeting at Forest and Vale Hotel in Pickering, North Yorkshire. Awards ceremony Gala Dinner
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Photos from the PGG 2017 AGM visit to Helmsley Walled Garden, at the foot of the North York Moors.
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Photos from the PGG visit to Sledmere House, East Yorkshire. The garden at Sledmere House has become a place to explore and discover different planting areas that have an emphasis on form and colour and overall impact on the eye. The expansive range of plants used and different naturalistic gardening
Read more →The 2017 AGM long weekend starts on Friday 22nd September with a visit to Yorkshire Arboretum at Castle Howard and then Rogers Nursery near Pickering. On Saturday morning we meet at Forest and Vale Hotel for the AGM followed by a trip to Helmsley Walled Garden in the afternoon. Back to
the Forest and Vale Hotel in the evening for our Gala Dinner. Sunday we meet at Sledmere for a tour in the morning before saying our final farewells.
The PGG AGM was held this year at Hyde Hall near Chelmsford, Essex. The stunning location with rolling hills and fantastic panoramic views was explored by the PGG Members during the morning, led by two very knowledgeable RHS gardeners.
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Many congratulations to the Award Winners Loyal Service Awards: Ian Stephenson for the major contribution he has made to the quality and development of the highly renowned gardens at Monteviot House in Roxburghshire. John Ellis for developing and maintaining to the highest of standards the wonderful gardens at Wallington in
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