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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:Paul Greenyer – Domestic garden drainage – design and construction
DESCRIPTION:11th November 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm \nPaul Greenyer is director of his landscaping company https://www.londonstone.co.uk/landscaper/insideout-home-garden-improvements-ltd/\, as well as a consultant and expert witness plus a course tutor for the London College of Garden Design Construction Diploma Course\, where he enjoys imparting his knowledge and enthusiasm for hard landscaping techniques. \nPaul is passionate about drainage; it is one of his top 10 most important and necessary elements of a garden to consider and implement. \nTime: 11th November 7.30pm – 9pm \n  \n 
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/james-steele-sargent-domestic-garden-drainage-design-and-construction/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Event
CATEGORIES:Zoom Event
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SUMMARY:John Frater – Beyond bug hotels - how garden design can support biodiversity
DESCRIPTION:14th October 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm \nJohn Frater is a planting designer and lecturer with sustainable practises at the heart of his work; he is particularly interested in planting schemes that help to increase biodiversity\, improve the urban environment and reduce carbon emissions. \nJohn combines his training in ecology with nearly 20 years experience in landscape design and a lifetime of gardening. \nHe consults for landscape architects\, garden designers\, landscape contractors\, local authorities and private clients. \nhttps://www.plantforms.co.uk \n  \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/john-frater-beyond-bug-hotels-how-garden-design-can-support-biodiversity/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Event
CATEGORIES:Zoom Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250909T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250909T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T183427
CREATED:20241217T094735Z
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SUMMARY:Darren Rudge – Sustainability and your garden. How does this work?
DESCRIPTION:9th September 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm \nDarren Rudge Landscape and Garden design is a design consultancy working throughout Wolverhampton\, Walsall\, Dudley\, The West Midlands\, Staffordshire and Shropshire. \nDarren Rudge\, also known as ’the laughing gardener’ has been a BBC radio presenter/broadcaster for over 15 years. His tips and advice can be heard on BBC Radio West Midlands\, BBC Coventry and Warwickshire and BBC Oxford. \nHis career has spanned more than thirty years as a horticultural lecturer\, assistant director of Birmingham Botanical Gardens\, garden writer and garden designer being the winner of a number of RHS show garden medals including gold and best in show awards. Darren’s talks and lecturers are packed full of advice and trivia plus he expects full audience participation!
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/darren-rudge-sustainability-and-your-garden-how-does-this-work/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Event
CATEGORIES:Zoom Event
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250812T200000
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250708T213000
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250520T200000
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250311T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250311T213000
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SUMMARY:Chris Reynolds - Specifying small to medium sized ponds
DESCRIPTION:11th March 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm \nChris Reynolds – Landscapeplus.com \nAquatic Business Development Manager \nChris has been with Landscapeplus for a good chunk of his life\, his role evolving from being part of the growing Sales team\, to now being part of the Business Development team\, concentrating specifically on the Aquatic customers. \n“I have 3 main passions in life: Golf\, Ilfracombe and Doombar. My wife and daughter are a close 4th! If I’m not in the office I will either be on site visiting customers\, on a beach or on a golf course”.
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/chris-reynolds-specifying-small-to-medium-sized-ponds/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Event
CATEGORIES:Zoom Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250211T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250211T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T183427
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SUMMARY:Andrew Mikolajski - Gardening in the 2020's - adapting to a changing climate and moving away from pesticides and weedkillers
DESCRIPTION:11th February 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm by ZOOM \nIn a change to our published schedule\, Andrew Mikolajski ‘s talk is brought forward to February and is by Zoom. \nAndrew is a gardening writer with over 20 years’ experience of writing\, editing\, lecturing and speaking and is the author of 40 gardening titles in gardening magazines and the RHS website. \nHe was a horticultural adviser on the new edition of the RHS A–Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants and more recently on a revision of the RHS Encylopedia of Plants and Flowers. He previously taught garden design and the RHS certificate at Warwickshire College\, and garden history at the English Gardening School.
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/andrew-mikolajski/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Event
CATEGORIES:Zoom Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250114T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250114T210000
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SUMMARY:Rosemary Coldstream – The Old Tennis Court – making a garden with hardcore
DESCRIPTION:14th January 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm \nRosemary Coldstream talks to us about her re-imagining of an old tennis court\, an experimental design using hardcore and gravel to make a low maintenance garden. \nRosemary is one of the UK’s leading garden designers. She is influenced by the lush flora and wide open landscapes of New Zealand where she was born\, but has a passion for English garden traditions. \n \nShe is a multi award winning garden designer and her Feels Like Home garden was awarded Gold Medal\, People’s Choice and Best in Category at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2023\, (photo above). \nRosemary regularly writes and lectures on garden design\, and is a Society of Garden Designers Registered Member\, a British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) Accredited Member and a Society of Garden Designers Registered Practice.
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/rosemary-coldstream-the-old-tennis-court-making-a-garden-with-hardcore/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Event
CATEGORIES:Zoom Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241210T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241210T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T183427
CREATED:20241105T182308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241219T111558Z
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SUMMARY:Christmas Social event in Wisley Gardens
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/christmas-social-event-in-wisley-gardens/
LOCATION:Wisley Gardens
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241112T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T183427
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SUMMARY:Working with Landscapers
DESCRIPTION:Phil Tremayne of the APL: Working with Landscapers \nJoin us for this Zoom talk with Phil Tremayne of the APL (Association of Professional Landscapers). \nPhil Tremayne acts as Secretary on the APL committee and helps form ongoing strategy for APL\, acting as the principal point of contact between the APL and its members and potential members. \nPhil will talk to us about the important working relationship between garden designers and landscapers and no doubt answer any questions we may have on the benefits of being a member of the APL and how to join. \nThis talk is FREE for SGDG members\, visitors\, please pay £5 using the link.
URL:https://www.sgdg.org.uk/event/working-with-landscapers/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Event
CATEGORIES:Zoom Event
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