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SUMMARY:Visit - Woolbeding Gardens\, Midhurst\, West Sussex
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 14th May 2026 DAYTIME VISIT \nNestled in a quiet corner of West Sussex near Midhurst lies a horticultural haven bursting with colourful planting\, sensational views and a whole host of surprises. \nOne of the suprises is an amazing 10 sided glasshouse which opens like a flower\, and filled with subtropical flowers. It was designed by the Heatherwick Studio based in London. \n \nWoolbeding delights at every turn with distinctive garden rooms set against thoughtfully composed borders. Formal gardens merge into the far reaching rural landscape of the River Rother\, a perfect backdrop for the many sculptures and follies you’ll come across. A masterpiece of colour and design\, the formal garden rooms have been planned to perfection by landscape architect Lanning Roper. Julian and Isabel Bannerman meanwhile\, brought theatrical flair to Woolbeding\, producing the dramatic woodland Pleasure Ground of architectural follies. \n \nTickets to be booked individually with Woolbeding Gardens. Free entry for National Trust members. \nThere is no parking on site\, visitors to park nearby in a public car park and use a complimentary shuttle bus. \nwww.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/sussex/woolbeding-gardens \nWe will meet at 12.30pm for a spot of lunch in the cafe\, then a walk around to discover the beautiful gardens. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/woolbedinggardens/
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/visit-woolbeding-gardens-midhurst-west-sussex/
LOCATION:Woolbeding Gardens\, Woolbeding Gardens\, Midhurst\, West Sussex\, GU29 9HD
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260310T173000
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SUMMARY:Clive Nichols - Photographing Plants and Gardens PLUS AGM
DESCRIPTION:10th March 2026 @ 5.30 pm – 8:00 pm LIVE EVENT\, Stoke D’abernon Church Hall \nClive Nichols is the UK’s top garden and flower photographer. \nAfter originally starting his career in travel photography\, Clive switched his focus to gardens and has since photographed thousands of gardens for publications including Country Life and The Sunday Times\, to institutions such as the National Trust and the RHS\, and individuals including Lord Heseltine and His Majesty King Charles III. \nClive has been referred to as ‘The King of garden photophaphy’. \n \nJoin us to meet Clive and stay for our AGM which will take place afterwards. \nEntry and refreshments from 5.30pm\, talk starts at 6pm. \n  \nMembers; no charge. \nNon-members\, please book tickets below.
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/clive-nichols-photographing-plants-and-gardens-plus-agm/
LOCATION:LIVE EVENT at St Mary’s Church Hall\, Stoke d’Abernon\, Stoke Rd\, Stoke d'Abernon\, Cobham\, Surrey\, KT11 3PX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251209T150000
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SUMMARY:Christmas Social
DESCRIPTION:9th December 2025  \nAccess for members and their guests only \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/christmas/
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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SUMMARY:Visit – Member Helen Thomas’s garden in Westcott open under the NGS
DESCRIPTION:12th August 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm \nHill Farm\n1¾ acre set in the magnificent Surrey Hills landscape. The garden has a wealth of different natural habitats to encourage wildlife\, and planting areas which come alive through the different seasons. Features include a wildlife pond\, woodland walk\, a tapestry of heathers\, glorious late summer grasses and perennials\, wildflower meadow and a vegetable and cut flower garden with greenhouse. \nHelen thomas Design
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/visit-member-helen-thomass-garden-in-westcott-open-under-the-ngs/
LOCATION:Helen Thomas\, Logmore Lane\, Westcott\, Surrey\, RH4 4JY
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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SUMMARY:Marina Christopher – Thugs and wimps in the garden
DESCRIPTION:8th July 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm \nMarina Christopher is a nurserywoman who runs Phoenix Perennial Plants a small specialist working nursery that propagates and grows plants on site. It specialises in hardy herbaceous plants attractive to pollinators\, other beneficial insects and birds all grown in loam-based bespoke compost. \nArticles on the nursery have been published in The Garden\, The Telegraph and Gardens Illustrated\, and the nursery is often mentioned as a supplier for Garden Designers exhibiting at The Chelsea Flower Show\, Malvern\, Hampton Court\, Tatton Park and Chatsworth. \nMarina is an RHS Trials Chair and has been on Trials judging panels since 2000 and is currently a corresponding member of the RHS Herbaceous Committee. She gives talks using plant material as props rather than slides or Power Point and teaches for the Plant School\, KLC and previously for the English Gardening School.
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/marina-christopher-thugs-and-wimps-in-the-garden/
LOCATION:LIVE EVENT at St Mary’s Church Hall\, Stoke d’Abernon\, Stoke Rd\, Stoke d'Abernon\, Cobham\, Surrey\, KT11 3PX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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SUMMARY:Visit - Serge Hill Project\, Barn Garden and Plant Library
DESCRIPTION:10th June 2025 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm \nThe Serge Hill Project for Gardening\, Creativity\, and Health\, was set up as a Community Interest Company (CIC) in 2021 by Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith. The project draws on Sue’s work as a psychiatrist\, psychotherapist and author of the best selling book\, The Well Gardened Mind\, which investigates the power of gardening to transform lives\, as well as Tom’s horticultural expertise as an internationally renowned Landscape Architect. \nThe Serge Hill Project is a not-for-profit initiative based on the understanding that working with nature can radically transform people’s health and wellbeing. The aim is to foster community inclusion through gardening and other forms of creativity. \nThe project is based in an old orchard at Serge Hill in Hertfordshire with an educational resource centre\, The Apple House\, at its centre. It offers resources to local primary and secondary schools\, youth organisations and mental health charities\, as well as local residents who want to get involved in gardening. \nThe Plant Library is set out in a grid system which holds more around 1500 different varieties of mainly herbaceous plants\, serving as an interactive catalogue and community of plants that can be walked through and studied from all angles. Varieties and species can be compared\, and combinations of form\, texture\, foliage and flower can be observed and appreciated. \nThe Barn courtyard garden\, designed by Tom Stuart- Smith was entirely redeveloped in 2007. It uses materials left over from the 2006 Daily Telegraph Chelsea show garden\, which won a gold medal and was voted ‘Best in Show’. \n \nThe tanks and wall of corten steel are reminiscent of the old corrugated iron buildings that once filled this former farmyard. \nEnclosed by alternating sections of hornbeam hedge and corten steel wall\, a thirty metre long rill traces the garden’s boundary. Raised water tanks provide markers leading into the garden\, paved with oak boarding and stone cobbles. This simple structure contrasts with richly coloured herbaceous planting. The garden is framed by two groups of Viburnum rhytidophyllum\, pruned to display its angular branches against the rusted steel walls. \nThe day will consist of a 2 hour tour of the Barn garden and the Plant library plus a 1 hour tour of the Serge Hill project.  \nThe cost of the tickets will be subsidised for SGDG members only; a price of £48 reduced from £65.  \nThe £48 ticket cost includes refreshments in the form of tea / coffee and cake. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/visit-serge-hill-project-plant-library/
LOCATION:The Serge Hill Project\, The Orchard\, Featherbed Ln\, Abbots Langley\, WD5 0RZ
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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SUMMARY:Visit - Millwaters Garden designed by Acres Wild
DESCRIPTION:20th May 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm \nMill Waters\, Still Waters is an extensive garden transformation in the romantic tradition\, uniting a refurbished former mill house on the banks of the River Wey in rural Surrey\, to a refurbished lake with boathouse and jetties\, via a series of linked garden rooms\, open spaces and avenues. \nJoin us for this private tour for the Surrey Garden Design Group. \n 
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/visit-millwaters-garden-designed-by-acres-wild/
LOCATION:Mill Water\, Mill Lane\, Surrey
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250408T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250408T213000
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SUMMARY:Nigel Philips - Water gardens\, both large and small
DESCRIPTION:8th April 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm by ZOOM \nIn a change to the previously published schedule\, we will be hosting an event by award winning garden designer Nigel Philips. \nhttps://www.nigelphilips.co.uk \nNigel trained at Merrist Wood College\, and has worked as a landscape and garden designer since 1981. \nNigel’s talk will be about the use of water in both large and small gardens\, from large gardens with vast lakes to more compact gardens with small areas of water. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/nigel-philips-water-gardens/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Event
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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CREATED:20241105T182308Z
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SUMMARY:Christmas Social event in Wisley Gardens
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URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/christmas-social-event-in-wisley-gardens/
LOCATION:Wisley Gardens
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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