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.
Read more →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.
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Photos from the PGG visit to RHS Garden Bridgewater at Worsley New Hall in Salford and Charcoal Woods a newly designed contemporary garden area surrounding a family town estate near Altrincham on the 6th July 2018.
Read more →PGG visit to RHS Garden Bridgewater at Worsley New Hall in Salford, the largest gardening project in Europe. And Charcoal Woods a newly designed contemporary garden area surrounding a family town estate near Altrincham.
Read more →PGG visit to Bodnant Garden and Plas Cadnant. Bodnant Garden is a National Trust property near Tal-y-Cafn. Plas Cadnant Hidden Gardens are historic gardens under restoration, situated between Menai Bridge and Beaumaris on the Isle of Anglesey.
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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.
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.
Photos from the PGG visit to Yorkshire Plants, a wholesale nursery in North Yorkshire growing ornamental and fruit trees, shrubs and conifers.
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Photos from the PGG visit to Early Ornamentals near Thirsk in North Yorkshire on July 20th, 2017.
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Photos of the PGG visit to Mount St John, a private garden not usually open to the public and privately owned by Chris Blundell, one of the partners in the Provenance chain of Inns.
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Photographs from the PGG visit to Trentham Gardens – formal Italianate gardens set within a large area of woodland, covering some 300 acres. The gardens were designed as a serpentine park by Capability Brown from 1758 onwards, overlying an earlier formal design attributed to Charles Bridgeman.
Read more →PGG visit to Mount St John, Earley Ornamentals and Yorkshire Plants all in Thirsk, Yorkshire
Read more →Trentham Gardens are formal Italianate gardens set within a large area of woodland. Together these currently together cover some 300 acres. The gardens were designed as a serpentine park by Capability Brown from 1758 onwards, overlying an earlier formal design attributed to Charles Bridgeman.
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