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2005 Trips

Day Trip to Pashley Manor Gardens & Spring Plant Fair, Ticehurst, East Sussex 

Sunday 15 May, £15 per person (includes entrance to plant fair and garden). Travel from three local pick-up points.

Pashley Manor, owned by James and Angela Sellick, has a 12-acre quintessentially English garden surrounding a Grade 1 listed timber-framed house with moat, dating from 1550 and enlarged in 1720. The gardens are a blend of romantic landscaping, imaginative plantings, fine old trees, fountains, springs and large ponds. There are exceptional views to the surrounding valleyed fields. A number of different gardens have been created within the 12 acres to allow the visitor to travel from blazing colour to cool creams, greens and golds. The Spring Plant Fair has rare, herbaceous and alpine plants for sale from about 30 specialist nurseries. Lunches and refreshments will be available. (www.pashleymanorgardens.com)

Please complete the slip on your newsletter and send with full payment and SAE by 29 March to John Ranson.

Malvern Autumn Garden & Country Show and Gardens of Worcestershire

4 days, 3 nights, Friday 23 September to Monday 26 September 2005

£189 (plus £45 single supplement/optional insurance, £14 per person) £30 deposit per person by 29 March. Balance by 31 July.

Please complete the slip on your newsletter and send a cheque for the deposit and insurance (if required), made payable to Ewell Horticultural Association, to John Ranson. Please enclose SAE.

NB: Entrance to the show or any of the gardens is not included in the price. You are advised to purchase your show tickets from the RHS in advance as it will be more expensive on the gate.

·          Accommodation Three nights at the four-star Bromsgrove Hilton (Tel: 0121-447-7888). The hotel has beautiful green surrounding areas and a small lake, plus a leisure complex including heated indoor swimming pool, sauna and solarium. All bedrooms have
en-suite facilities, TV, telephone, hairdrier and hospitality tray. Breakfast and evening meal included.

·          Return executive coaching.

Day 1, Friday: Travel up from three local pick-up points. Lunch stop at Webb’s of Wychbold with time to visit their show gardens and
large garden centre. Arrive at hotel in time for tea.

Day 2, Saturday: Full day visiting Malvern Autumn Garden & Country Show in the beautiful setting of the Malvern Hills.

Billed as 'the perfect end to the gardening year', this show has an enviable reputation as a plant lover's paradise with thousands of plants
for sale from the country's finest nurseries.

Day 3, Sunday: Visits to two gardens.

Morning: How Caple Court, near Ross-on-Wye, owned by Mr and Mrs Roger Lee. Eleven acres of spectacular formal gardens laid out about 100 years ago, some Italianate, others more Arts and Crafts, featuring pergolas, loggias, dramatic terraces and secret gardens with stunning views across a lushly wooded valley. A garden of national importance. Sandwich lunches, snacks and teas are available here.

Afternoon: The Picton Garden and Old Court Nurseries, near Malvern, owned by Paul and Meriel Picton.

This garden holds the National Collection of Michaelmas daisies (asters). These are also the nurseries' speciality. When the asters are in flower the banks of colour graded for height recall the grandest of Edwardian gardens and the Picton Garden becomes one of the great showpieces of English horticulture. Also includes many other perennials and cottage garden plants. (www.autumnasters.co.uk)

Day 4, Monday: Return, stopping for lunch at Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire, owned by the School of Economic Science.

The 7-acre gardens are extensive, well maintained and full of interesting plants with fine formal features including a herb garden and knot garden. Other features are a walled garden with glasshouse, small gravel garden, Virgins’ Walk with shade loving plants, a long herbaceous border with autumn interest, alpine beds and shrub borders, etc. Light lunches and refreshments available.

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