Photos from the recent PGG visit to Walmer Castle and Gardens, set within eight acres of magnificent gardens and woodland.
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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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Photos of the PGG visit to Matson Ground Garden, a small, private family garden that is part of the wider Matson Ground Estate.
Read more →PGG Southern area visit to Bowood House and Gardens in Wiltshire. Bowood House itself is set in the middle of Capability’ Brown’s grade 1 park. The upper terrace was designed by Sir Robert Smirk in 1818, the lower terrace by George Kennedy in 1851.
Read more →PGG Southern area visit to The Manor House, Alwalton and Castor House, Cambridgeshire on Friday 24th June 2016
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I’ve always wanted a little bit of woodland as part of my garden. Living in tied accommodation however, means you get what you get and keep it tidy and maintained. It was nice when we moved to find that our new garden abutted an untidy, overgrown orchard; not ours but a nice compromise.
Read more →PGG Southern area visit to Somerleyton Hall, Suffolk – the grandest estate in East Suffolk. The walled gardens house an exceptional range of original Joseph Paxton glasshouses including the recently restored peach ‘cases’ which run the length and width of one of the walls.
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Following an extremely interesting and varied events schedule this year, your area Organisers have been busy planning more visits and events for 2015. Some of these are now open for booking so please have a look at the Events page and remember that places do fill up very quickly. If there’s a location you don’t want to miss you can book it now!
Read more →Veddw House, Monmouthshire – an interesting if somewhat controversial garden managed by Anne Wareham in a very naturalistic way. The Guild visited this garden a couple of years ago but later in the year and it was fascinating to see in the spring. Well worth a visit if you’re in
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Well, I promised to look at some of the species we began to see around the garden of our new tied cottage; So let’s start with our little feathered friends.
Read more →A three day Professional Gardeners’ Guild mini tour of private and National Trust gardens in Ireland.
Read more →Professional Gardeners’ Guild Southern Area visit to Minterne House and gardens and Sherborne Castle, Dorset. The Minterne Valley was landscaped in the manner of Capability Brown in the 18th Century. Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown created the lake at Sherborne Castle in 1753, giving Sherborne the very latest in landscape gardening.
Read more →This is a private visit to garden designer Arne Maynard’s garden at Allt-y-Bela, Wyndcliffe Court Gardens and Veddw House in Monmouthshire.
NB – This event is now fully booked
A Growing Garden with Room for Visitors. Time has moved on so quickly since we moved, it’s nearly six years already, and much has changed since the rough plan in ‘Bug Man #3’, so here’s a plan of what it looks like now… The garden layout It’s a garden that
Read more →A great garden nestling at the side of Dartmoor and one of the great gardens used on our trainee scheme.
Read more →Plants part 2…The move Maintaining memories Living in our previous tied accommodation had left us with many lovely memories of time spent in the garden, part of these memories was impacted on by the plants we had, and the thought of leaving everything behind could not be entertained. The biggest
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An estate agent in Northumberland are selling a house near Berwick with a garden full of plant rarities – Trillium, Paris, Lilium, Primula, Rheum etc. and the owner has asked if any PGG members would like to take cuttings.
Read more →On May 19th the PGG visited three notable private gardens in the Ipswich area of Suffolk not normally open to the public.
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