Blair Castle stands as the focal point in a designed landscape of some 2,500 acres within a Highland estate. The Hercules Garden is a walled garden of about nine acres recently restored to its original 18th-century design with landscaped ponds, a Chinese bridge, contemporary plantings, vegetables and an orchard of
Read more →Blair Castle stands as the focal point in a designed landscape of some 2,500 acres within a Highland estate.
Read more →PGG visit to Wemyss Castle Gardens – ‘One of the horticultural wonders of Scotland’. The grounds at Wemyss Castle have been gardened formally since the 17th century, each generation introducing their own aesthetics and ideas. After the second world war the walled garden became largely redundant but since 1993 it has been lovingly overhauled and redesigned by Charlotte Wemyss.
Read more →Come to the Spring Festival featuring the only National Scientific Collection of Narcissus in the UK.
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 →PGG visit to Gordon Castle Walled Garden and Glen Grant Distillery Victorian Gardens.
Read more →PGG visit to The MacRobert Trust and then on to Crathes Castle in the afternoon
Read more →Achamore Gardens are to be found on the idyllic Isle of Gigha, some three miles from the western peninsular of Kintyre. Gigha is seven miles long and a mile wide. The community-owned island has a population of 160. With stunning views to the Paps of Jura, Ben More on Mull and Goatfell on Arran. Blessed with fertile soil, acid sandy loam with either a clay or gravel subsoil. Influenced by the Gulf Stream frosts are rare and snow rarely seen.
Read more →Scotland’s Daffodil Festival – visitors will see these extraordinary daffodil breakthroughs as well as hundreds of different varieties of Narcissi including heritage, modern, scented as well as varieties most suited to rock gardens and pots.
Read more →PGG visit to Cambo, a 2.5 acre walled garden dates from the 1800’s; and Wormistoune Gardens, a 17th century Scot’s tower house and gardens.
Read more →PGG mountain walk, Ben Lawers, Perthshire – the mountain of Ben Lawers (Gaelic -“the hoof”) by the side of Loch Tay in Perthshire is one of the best sites for alpine and arctic plants in Britain.
Read more →PGG visit to Geilston Garden, a classic garden with a vibrant feel, and then on to Glenarn, a west coast garden with rhododendrons, magnolias, eucryphias, and a host of other plants.
Read more →PGG visit to Scotland’s Daffodil Festival – visitors will see these extraordinary daffodil breakthroughs as well as hundreds of different varieties of Narcissi including heritage, modern, scented as well as varieties most suited to rock gardens and pots.
Read more →Photos from the PGG visit to Cawdor Castle which boasts three very different gardens. the Walled Garden, the Flower Garden and the Wild Garden.
Read more →PGG visit to The Japanese Gardens at Cowden, a seven acre site in the grounds of Cowden Castle, thirty miles north west of Edinburgh. And Rumbling Bridge Nursery which houses an interesting collection of rarer shrubs and plants as well as the nursery.
Read more →PGG visit to Cawdor Castle which boasts three very different gardens. the Walled Garden, the Flower Garden and the Wild Garden. And then on to Auchindoune Gardens which has a Tibetan garden, a formal and vegetable gardens, an orchard and arboretum.
Read more →PGG visit to Stonefield Castle Hotel woodland gardens – a fantastic example of a striking and colourful Scottish Garden and Ormsary House on the shore of Loch Caolisport looking across to Islay and Jura.
Read more →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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