The fabulous scenery and benign climate of the northern Italian lakes have attracted aristocrats and the wealthy for years, and today their elegant villas and lush gardens perfectly complement the natural landscape.
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Photos from the PGG Study Tour of South Wales in September 2019 which included visits to a cross section of gardens ancient and modern in the south of Wales, to see Victorian plant collecting and rockwork, high formality from Medieval and Edwardian times to the twentieth century, planting by major
Read more →The Professional Gardeners Guild Study Tour of South Wales. Staying in a country house hotel near Usk and an old coaching inn in Carmarthenshire Wales has a long history of garden making, just like its neighbour England, and many a Welsh garden, both now and in the past, has been
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Photographs from the Professional Gardeners’ Guild Study Tour to Scotland in 2017 including Drummond Castle and Branklyn Gardens in Perth
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Trainee expedition to Parques de Sintra On the 12th of March, six lucky PGG trainees boarded a plane for Portugal. We were not entirely sure what to expect or what exactly we would be doing however, as the week went on we became more enlightened. The places that we visited
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Photos from the recent Professional Gardeners’ Guild Study Tour of The Gardens of Northern France.
Read more →An 8 day coach tour of some of the most spectacular gardens of Northern France. Highlights include Mont St Michel, Château de Brécy, Chateau de Canon (a classical formal French garden), Le Vasterival (one of the finest private gardens in Europe) and The Palace of Versailles.
Read more →A three day Professional Gardeners’ Guild mini tour of private and National Trust gardens in Ireland.
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PGG visit to The Geographical Arboretum of Tervuren, Leuven, Belgium to view the stunning collections of rare trees and shrubs.
Read more →Photographs of the recent PGG Study Tour to Belgium including the botanical garden of Leuven, a visit to Arbor nursery, Arboretum Wespelaar and two private gardens.
Read more →The PGG Study Tour to Belgium will take place between Friday 10th May 2013 and Sunday 12th May 2013. The visit begins on 10th to the little botanical garden of Leuven together with the city of Leuven. Then on Saturday 11th to the Arbor nursery and a private garden. Finally
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