Back by popular demand! Another chance for a wonderfully exciting opportunity to spend a day with some of the hugely experienced team at Pictorial Meadows.
Read more →Set in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Little Sparta is Ian Hamilton Finlay’s greatest work of art.
Read more →PGG visit to SRUC Elmwood Campus, an ideal training ground for the horticultural and wildlife and conservation students and Falkland Palace whose grounds include a physic garden with Renaissance-era herbal remedies.
Read more →With 1,000 acres of parkland to explore, Castle Howard is a haven of peace and tranquillity. Ray Wood holds an impressive botanical collection from around the world.
Read more →Northern Area dinner at the Bridge Inn Hotel, back by popular demand!
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Lawson Park and Brantwood are two gardens reasonably close to my home, regularly open to the public…so why would I want to spend the whole of a sunny Sunday visiting them with PGG members? I hear you ask. A special day After all, there’s weeding and mowing, greenhouse watering and
Read more →An autumnal visit to the beautiful gardens and arboretum of Thorp Perrow followed by lunch, great company, and a horticulturally themed quiz… with prizes!
Read more →A wonderfully exciting opportunity to spend a day with some of the hugely experienced team at Pictorial Meadows.
Read more →An autumnal visit to the beautiful gardens at Little Thorpe Manor followed by lunch, great company, and a horticulturally themed quiz, with prizes!
Read more →PGG visit – North Yorkshire trio. Nunnington Hall, Sleightholmedale Lodge and Ness Hall.
Read more →PGG visit to York Gate Garden – lovingly created by the Spencer family from the early 1950s, and in 1994 bequeathed to Perennial. Followed by a visit to Golden Acre Park the gardens of which contain National Plant Collections of Chrysanthemum, Delphinium, Deutzia, Hemerocallis, Hosta (large leaved), Philadelphus, Phlox paniculata and more.
Read more →PGG visit to Yewbarrow House and Matson Ground in the Lake District
Read more →RHS Garden Bridgewater is the fifth RHS garden and one of the largest gardening projects undertaken in Europe in recent years. The transformation of this 154-acre green space will enrich the lives of local communities and their environment for the future.
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 →PGG visit to Holker Hall in Cumbria. With an eye for detail, sense of fun and love of exotic plants, the present owners have given the garden its unique character. The gardens have won numerous awards, most recently BBC Countryfile Garden of the Year 2016.
Read more →PGG visit to Weston Park Walled Garden including the Kitchen Garden, where the Maze and Orchard now stand. For many years the garden fed both the family and their staff, with its own three full time gardeners.
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Stonefield Castle A wet day on the west coast of Scotland did not deter a dedicated group of PGG members exploring this neglected but wonderful garden and plant collection on the west coast of Scotland. The garden contains a wide and varied plant collection with many original plants from the
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Photographs from the PGG visit to Deer Rudding and Askham Hall on the 24th May 2019. 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
Read more →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.
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