Renishaw Hall and Cantley Hall

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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Bodnant Garden and Plas Cadnant

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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Photos: Trentham Gardens July 2017

Photos: Trentham Gardens July 2017

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.

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PGG AGM 2017 – Yorkshire

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.

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South Cumbria gardens

PGG visit to 3 gardens in the south of Cumbria: Matson Ground Garden a small, private family garden; Peter Rabbit Garden which recreates garden scenes from some of the books using plant varieties available to gardeners of Beatrix Potter’s era; Holehird Gardens, totally run by dedicated volunteers.

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Trentham Gardens

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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