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.
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 →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.
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 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.
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 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 →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 →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.
Read more →PGG visit to Croome Court Landscape Park (NT) and Croome Walled Kitchen Garden.
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Photos from the PGG visit to Nant y Bedd in South Wales on the 21st July, a 6½ acre garden set high in the Black Mountains owned by Sue and Ian Mabberly.
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Photos from the PGG visit to the garden of Stephen Anderton, PGG member, garden journalist and former National Gardens Manager for English Heritage.
Read more →PGG visit to New Inn Farm and Nant y Bedd, Abergavenny, South Wales.
Read more →The visit to Canterbury Cathedral on 21st July has sadly had to be postponed until 2019
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Photos from the PGG visit to RHS Garden Bridgewater at Worsley New Hall in Salford and Charcoal Woods a newly designed contemporary garden area surrounding a family town estate near Altrincham on the 6th July 2018.
Read more →PGG visit to RHS Garden Bridgewater at Worsley New Hall in Salford, the largest gardening project in Europe. And Charcoal Woods a newly designed contemporary garden area surrounding a family town estate near Altrincham.
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Photos from the PGG visit to the historic gardens under restoration at Plas Cadnant, situated between Menai Bridge and Beaumaris on the Isle of Anglesey. Pictures by John Barber
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Photos from the PGG visit to Bodnant Garden, a National Trust property near Tal-y-Cafn. All photos: John Barber
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