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Plant Sales at our Botanic Garden Sundays 2pm-4pm. 24th May 10am-4pm. We are gardening Wed/Thu/Fri mornings. Come in if the gate is open!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Photos from Norwell Nurseries Website
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