CHS SUMMER DAY TRIPS FROM ABERYSTWYTH 2026

We visit a wide variety of public & private gardens within a day’s journey from Aberystwyth. Non-members are welcome. We use R J Jones Coaches, departing from the Park & Ride Carpark in Aberystwyth. Please note parking charges apply. Pickups are negotiable en route: contact Outings Organisers. All costs exclude meals. Menus for optional prebooked meals will be circulated in due course. The CHS committee welcome suggestions for future venues. Details of gardens are in the spring issue of Spadework, or download/print a preview here: 26_CHS_DayTrips_Preview
Download / Print the 26_CHS_DayTrip_Booking_Form

DATE & TIME DESTINATION DETAILS & ESTIMATED COST PER PERSON £10 deposit pp

Thursday 21 May
Dep. 8.15 am
Ret. 6.30pm

Cold Comfort Farm
& Treffgarne Hall Pembrokeshire

 £41pp

Thursday 16 June
Dep. 8am  Ret. 7pm

Ness Botanical Gardens,
Cheshire

 £27pp

Wednesday 8 July
Dep. 8.15am  Ret. 7pm

Stockton Bury Gardens & Westonbury Mill Water Gardens. 

£61pp 

Thursday 30 July
Dep. 2.00pm
Ret. 8pm

Cae Hir Gardens,
 Cribyn, Lampeter
Evening Meal: Tregaron

£25pp

Friday 4 September
Dep. 8.30am Ret. 6pm		 Hampton Gardens, Hope under Dinmore, Leominster

£29pp

Judith Bray, on a 2015 CHS day trip to Glebe House, was struck by Eryngium elegans (Miss Willmott’s ghost). ‘A memorable name and evidently a memorable person too. A 19th century gardener, she secretly scattered seeds of this plant in other people’s gardens.’

Can anyone fill this empty pot with a special plant from a CHS day-trip? Members are  sometimes given a cutting or seeds, there’s often a table of plants for sale and we visit nurseries: resulting in a leafy, gaudy and possibly prickly bus back to Aberystwyth.

Alison Swanson
My David Austin ‘Blue Rose ‘ from CHS Trip July 2018 one stem has 20 buds!