Membership

Surrey Garden Design Group is open to anyone with an interest in design, landscapes and beautiful gardens.  Our membership stands at around 80. We’re a friendly bunch of those interested both professionally and personally.

You can see our programme of events HERE  We arrange a mix of talks and presentations from designers, plantspeople, technical specialists and business experts. Past speakers have included Charlotte Rowe, Kate Gould, Patricia Fox, Butter Wakefield, Andrew Wilson, Ann Marie-Powell, Mark Gregory, Matt Keightley and Helen Elks-Smith.

We also arrange visits as part of our programme to gardens and other places of interest. Recent highlights include a trip to the Serge Hill project and Tom Stuart-Smith’s barn garden, the Knepp wildlife reserve and an exclusive visit to a garden designed by Acres Wild.

We have a Professional Development Group set up by members to provide peer support for those working in the industry, allowing them to share challenges and ideas on good practice.  This has become a lifeline for our many members who work on their own. Recently we have created a separate group for CAD support.

Membership of the Group is held at £40 for 2026 and renewals are every January.  As a member you can access:

• The 8 talks a year as detailed in our calendar of events are free to members and opened up to visitors if there is space. Any additional talks or special series of talks that we organise may have an additional cost.
• Visits and social events (there may be additional costs involved)
• Copies of Groundcover Magazine – our bi-monthly newsletter covering industry news, write ups of talks and more.
• A private ‘Members area’ on our website where we share resources from events including recordings of most of our past zoom events. It’s a treasure-trove!
• Whatsapp group for lively discussions and information sharing
• Professional Development and CAD support groups by zoom