EVENT CANCELLED – Stansted Park stands in 1800 acres of parkland and ancient forest within the South Downs National Park. In 1983 the 10th Earl of Bessborough gave Stansted Park, the Arboretum, his family home and its beautiful contents to the public.
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.
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Photos from the PGG visit to Auchindoune Gardens on the 6th July. Auchindoune has a Tibetan garden, a formal and vegetable gardens, an orchard and arboretum.
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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 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.
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Photos from the PGG Visit to David Austin Roses on 28th June 2019. David Austin Roses have created a large rose garden which many consider to be one of the most beautiful in the world with over 700 different varieties of roses the garden is divided into a number of
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Photos from the PGG visit to Tusmore Park on 26th June, 2019. These few pictures do not do the garden proud. A fantastic garden with some of the best and highest level of maintenance we’ve ever seen. With much work still in progress I can’t wait wait for a second
Read more →David Austin Roses have created a large rose garden which many consider to be one of the most beautiful in the world with over 700 different varieties of roses the garden is divided into a number of smaller areas, each with its own style.
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.
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Photos from the PGG visit on 6th June 2019 to The Japanese Gardens at Cowden, a seven acre site in the grounds of Cowden Castle and Rumbling Bridge Nursery which has an interesting collection of rarer shrubs and plants as well as the nursery.
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 Trotton Place, a privately owned working garden and The Private Gardens of Petworth House with Lady Egremont & The Head Gardener, Jonathan.
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Stonefield Castle A wet day on the west coast of Scotland did not deter a dedicated group of PGG members exploring this neglected but wonderful garden and plant collection on the west coast of Scotland. The garden contains a wide and varied plant collection with many original plants from the
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Photographs from the PGG visit to Deer Rudding and Askham Hall on the 24th May 2019. Deer Rudding is a private 8 acre garden set in the lee of the Northern lake District fells, the garden surrounds a former Cumbrian farmhouse and outbuildings with an excellent selection of planting.The formal
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 →PGG visit to Deer Rudding and Askham Hall. Deer Rudding is a private 8 acre garden set in the lee of the Northern lake District fells, the garden surrounds a former Cumbrian farmhouse and outbuildings with an excellent selection of planting.The formal gardens surrounding Askham Hall are grade II listed and include terraces of herbaceous borders and yew topiary dating back to the 17th Century.
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A good visit to Renishaw Hall and an opportunity visit a garden which we’d not visited for a long while. The day started out quite chilly but turned into a great spring day. The gardens were in great condition and the Head Gardener took us round giving a great overview
Read more →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.
Read more →PGG visit to Anne’s Grove Gardens and Little Bridge Flowers Ltd in County Cork, Ireland.
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.
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