PGG visit to Houghton Hall Walled Garden – a 5-acre walled garden divided into quarters which are sub divided again to create 23 distinct areas including a 120m long double herbaceous border, Rose Garden, Italian Garden, fruit and veg area, cut flower borders, a wisteria walkway and the unique Waterflame garden.
Read more →PGG visit to Scotney Castle, an English country house with formal lawns south-east of Lamberhurst in the valley of the River Bewl in Kent, England.
Read more →PGG visit to Antony Woodland Garden, an “International Camellia Garden of Excellence” which holds the National Collection of Camellia japonica.
Read more →PGG visit to Marwood Hill Gardens a very special 20 acre private garden with three lakes set in a valley tucked away in North Devon and Foamlea, a one acre, west facing garden full of plants with origins around the world.
Read more →PGG visit to Down House, the family home of world-renowned scientist Charles Darwin
Read more →PGG visit to Oxford University Parks – offering an escape from the hustle and bustle of the City, but conveniently located right at its heart – with something to please everyone.
Read more →PGG visit to West Lodge in Dorset. West Lodge, was bought some 9 years ago by the present owner who has been re-modelling the house and creating a brand new garden in the process.
Read more →A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a visit to the world famous Kew Gardens on Wednesday 1st July 2020 and the Head of School of Horticulture (and PGG member) has put together this fantastic programme for us.
Read more →PGG visit to Mill Barn, Weston Turville, a brand new conversion of a Grade ll eighteenth century barn sitting on a two acre plot, half farmyard and paddock.
Read more →Annual dinner followed by Ron Nettle Memorial Lecture. The speaker is Dr Mark Spencer F.L.S., Forensic Botanist, Hon. Curator (Plants), Linnean Society of London Scientific Associate, Natural History Museum, London. His talk is entitled ‘Herbariums and Garden History, the Fulham Palace Experience’.
Read more →PGG AGM 2019 – Visit to Cliveden, a large garden set high above the River Thames with stunning views to the south and west.
Read more →This year’s AGM Meeting is on the morning of Saturday 5th October starting at 10.00am including a presentation by Perennial at 12.15pm.
Read more →The garden and manor at Waddesdon are the vision of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild who purchased 2,700 acres of land in 1874 from the Duke of Marlborough. A year later he purchased for his sister, Miss Alice de Rothschild de Rothschild, the adjoining 1,400 acres at Eythrope.
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Photos from the PGG visit to Burghley House on 12th July 2019 – a Tudor mansion built by Sir William Cecil over a period of 32 years from 1563 onwards.
Read more →Burghley House is a Tudor mansion built by Sir William Cecil over a period of 32 years from 1563 onwards. The gardens and wider parklands were largely designed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown in the 18th century.
Read more →PGG visit to Tusmore Park – the tour will focus on the formal gardens, part way through a major re-design by Tom Stuart-Smith.
Read more →PGG visit to Trotton Place, a privately owned working garden and The Private Gardens of Petworth House with Lady Egremont & The Head Gardener, Jonathan.
Read more →Rutland’s Barnsdale Gardens came top in a 2018 poll to find the best 100 visitor gardens in the UK. Garden News readers voted in their thousands over the summer with Barnsdale emerging as the victor, beating hundreds of famous attractions, including Kew Gardens.
Read more →PGG visit to Croome Court Landscape Park (NT) and Croome Walled Kitchen Garden.
Read more →The visit to Canterbury Cathedral on 21st July has sadly had to be postponed until 2019
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