Those members who have booked for this trip should meet at The Mount car park at 9.00am on Friday, August 6th.  The journey will last for about 2.25 hrs and we hope to return by 6.00pm. There is a large restaurant and a regular buggy service up the hill to the main part of the […]

There have been many new developments at Wisley including the new visitor centre, the newly laid out pinetum area and the fabulous new RHS Hilltop, the Home of Gardening Science.  This new area has research laboratories, a library, interactive education area and three new gardens (Wildflower, World Food and Well-being) plus a big restaurant. Wisley […]

Coughton Court, near Alcester in Warwickshire, has been the home to the Throckmorton family for more than 600 years. You can discover their story including their link to the Gunpowder Plot, by visiting the house and walking in the lovely gardens which include a riverside walk and a beautiful display of roses in the walled […]

Batsford Arboretum near Moreton in Marsh in the Cotswolds, is a renowned collection of beautiful trees and in Autumn it becomes a wonderful riot of leaf colour and berries. There is a Garden Centre and a Garden Terrace cafe and snack hut for refreshments,

Bourton House Garden is a beautiful garden which features luxuriant terraces and wide herbaceous borders with stunning plant, texture and colour combinations. National Trust (NT) Snowshill Manor is a sixteenth-century country house, best known for its twentieth-century owner, Charles Paget Wade, an eccentric who amassed an enormous collection of objects that interested him. The Arts […]

NT Buscot Park is a country house in Buscot near the town of  Faringdon in Oxfordshire within the historic boundaries of Berkshire. The house is set within a large park, of over 100 acres (0.40 km2), containing woodland, lakes and formal gardens. Millett's Farm Centre at Frilford is a family run farm shop and plant centre. Cost:  […]