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We are enjoying the new season's gardening at The Botanic Garden at Wollaton. Open Sundays 2-4pm and Wed/Thu/Fri am if the gate is open.
INFORMATION AND BOOKING FORM
INFORMATION AND BOOKING FORM
We have three coach Outings for our members to look forward to this summer with a huge choice of plants for sale.
Also we have a visit planned for members by car in June. Booking for this will be by email nearer the time.
We will be using with Acorn Travel again, a local firm specialising in smaller coaches.
Please refer to the Outings Information page where you will see a map with the 2 pick up points marked, They remain the same as last year. There will be 36 seats on each outing, the usual comforts but no toilet.
There is plenty of space to store all your plants.
Bookings will be via the online booking system successfully used for the last 3 years.
Here is the link to our Online Outings Booking Form
Please note this is only for paid up members of Nottingham Group.
We will open to family and friends later should seats be available - members will be informed of this by email.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The online booking form for Outings will be sent to the membership via email.
Confirmation of bookings will be sent via email or by phone for members without internet access.
Initial bookings are only accepted for Members.
If places remain available near to the date of the trip, invitations may be extended to friends/relatives.
Please scroll down to read our Cancellation Policy.
All the usual information on trip details, including the Gardens, how to book, the location of car parking and coach pick up places, are included in Spring Newsletters sent to members.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE - FRIDAY 16th MAY 2025
CAMBRIDGESHIRE - FRIDAY 16th MAY 2025
The Old Rectory, Wisbech
A classical and formal garden at the front of the Georgian House (not open) and described as friendly and a bit crazy at the back. Including a walled cottage garden style area of about an acre filled with an abundance of plants and roses leading on to wildflower meadows and paths, three different ponds in the gardens.
Level terrain.
Tea/coffee and cake included.
Photos taken from NGS website
Swines Meadow Farm Nursery
Market Deeping, Peterborough
www.swinesmeadowfarmnursery.co.uk
We had a memorable visit here in August 2017 and many of you will remember Colin and Karan Ward for their talks at our evening meetings. There have been a number of changes since our visit. We can be sure of a warm welcome and a vast selection of unusual plants for sale. Level terrain.
A light buffet lunch, guided tour of the garden, visit to the Arboretum and Nursery all included.
Please note members with specific dietary requirements please notify me by email E:sandradenham8@gmail.com
Photos by Erica Thomson
CHESHIRE - TUESDAY 10th JUNE 2025
CHESHIRE - TUESDAY 10th JUNE 2025
Parm Place, Great Budworth
The coach will need to park in the village followed by a short walk to the garden and back to board the coach.
Well stocked plantswoman's garden with stunning views towards south Cheshire. Lawns, parterre, shrubs, colour coordinated herbaceous borders, roses, water features, rockery, gravel bed with some grasses. Fruit and vegetable plots. Featured on Gardeners World.
Tea/coffee biscuits included.
Walk back to the village centre to the coach.
Photos courtesy of the owner
Stonyford Cottage, Oakmere stonyfordcottagenursery.co.uk
Set around a tranquil pool, the Monet style landscape has a wealth of moisture loving plants, including iris, and candelabra primulas. Drier areas feature unusual perennials, rarer trees and shrubs. Woodland paths meander through shade and bog plantings, along boarded walks, across wild natural areas with views over the pool to the cottage gardens. The garden is noted for its wildlife and orchids may be in flower at the time of our visit. Unusual plants available at the adjacent nursery. Some gravel paths.
Guided tour included. Seating available around the garden to enjoy your packed lunch.
Small Cafe self service tea/coffee cake at own expense.
Stonyford Cottage is an RHS Partner Garden but free entry for RHS members does not apply when on group visits.
Photos from Stonyford Cottage Nursery website
EVENING VISIT TO THE ROSE GARDEN - TUESDAY 17th JUNE 2025
EVENING VISIT TO THE ROSE GARDEN - TUESDAY 17th JUNE 2025
The Rose Garden, Stoke Lane Allotments, Gedling, Nottingham NG4 2QS
There is a walk of approximately 300 yds from the gate to the Rose Garden and back, wear sensible footwear and bring waterproofs.
We are invited to visit the Rose Garden, a community garden within the Stoke Lane Allotments site, the garden has been managed by Jed & Barbara Riley since 2013. Originally planted by a former allotmenteer on two plots with a wide variety of roses, around 90 bushes. A great many of the heavily scented old roses will be at their peak flowering period at the time of our visit alongside repeat flowering roses such as modern shrub roses, hybrid teas and hybrid musks. A feast for the eyes and senses.
Tea available.
Photos by Sandra Denham
NORTH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE - FRIDAY 25th JULY 2025
NORTH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE - FRIDAY 25th JULY 2025
This Outing is now full, but you can still book to go on a waiting list in case of any cancellations.
Morton Nurseries Old Mansfield Road, Retford.
A traditional working nursery where Gill and Gayle propagate and grow most of their plants from garden favourites to more unusual varieties. Large selection of stock available, many can be seen growing in the garden. Gill is a regular stall holder at local Plant Fairs selling a wide selection of high quality plants.
A regular medal winner for her stall at Garden Shows, Gill now concentrates on attending more local fairs.
They were thrilled to be featured in the July 2024 edition of the RHS The Garden magazine which resulted in many new visitors to the nursery.
Coffee/tea and cake included in aid of the Local Hospice.
Photos of the nursery taken by the owner from Google Maps
Norwell Nurseries, Norwell
We are well overdue a visit to Andrew and Helen Wards Nursery, the year of our last group visit was 2010. We can be sure of a warm welcome and see the inspirational garden including the sand beds described on Andrews winter talks. A guided tour is included to help with identifying some of the hundreds of plants in the borders, woodland areas and the pond. Featured in Gardens Illustrated and Gardeners World. The garden includes several National Collections of plants including Astrantia and Hardy Chrysanthemums.
You are welcome to enjoy your packed lunch in the garden and some seating is available.
Tea/Coffee and home made cake included.
Photos from Norwell Nurseries Website
CANCELLATION POLICY
CANCELLATION POLICY
To reduce the financial deficit for Outings, the Committee have agreed a Cancellation policy (see below), in effect returning to a practice used in the past. We are only requesting a small payment to be made if a member has to cancel.
Cancellations
Once a booking has been made, members cancelling will need to pay 50% of the coach hire costs if it is not possible to fill their place. (This recognises their regular contribution to the Group’s finances through the annual subscription payment)
If a non member cancels under the same circumstances they will be liable to pay 100% of the coach hire costs.
Members/Non Members who have already paid would be refunded for the refreshment costs if it is not possible to fill their place.
Members/Non Members who cancel before making a payment will be asked to contribute if it has not been possible to fill the place.
Members are encouraged to fill the coach by inviting family members and friends.
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