CHS SUMMER DAY TRIPS FROM ABERYSTWYTH 2022

Each year, our organizers find a wide variety of public and private gardens within a day’s journey from Aberystwyth and non-members are welcome. Our bus, R J Jones Coaches, departs from depart from Plas Crug Leisure Centre, Llanbadarn Rd, Aberystwyth SY23 1HL. Pickups are negotiable en route: contact Outings Organisers. The CHS committee welcome suggestions for future venues. The spring issue of Spadework has further details of day-trip plans.
Download / Print a booking form here: DAYTRIP_BOOKING_FORM

DATE & TIME DESTINATION DETAILS & COST
ESTIMATES

Wednesday 4 May
Dep. 8.00am Ret. 7.30pm

Brobury House & Gardens, Bredwardine, Herefordshire.
Hergest Croft Gardens, Kington, Herefordshire.

Estimated cost £33.00 excluding lunch. Pre-booked lunch: £8.50)
OR members may wish to bring a picnic. 

Monday 6 June
Dep. 7.30am Ret. 8.15pm

 

Wollerton Old Hall, Market Drayton, Shropshire.
Goldstone Hall, Market Drayton, Shropshire.

 

Estimated cost including lunch £48.00. A set menu of quiche and salads will be provided by Goldstone Hall

Thursday 14 July
Dep. 8.15am Ret. 7.30pm

Maesfron Hall & Gardens, Welshpool.
Cwm Weeg, Dolfor.

Estimated cost including lunch  £37.00 Menu for pre-booking of lunch will be circulated.

Tuesday 27 Sept
Dep. 7.30am Ret. 8.15pm

 

RHS Bridgewater
Worsley, Salford.

Estimated cost £16.00
*Deposit £6 pp Members are advised to bring a picnic lunch to avoid long restaurant queues

Judith Bray
On a 2015 CHS day trip to Glebe House, Gwent, among many splendid herbaceous plants, this Eryngium was spectacular. Eryngium elegans (Miss Willmott’s ghost), is 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.

An empty pot waiting for any CHS member to fill with a special plant from a day-trip. Sometimes members on our day-long garden-visiting trips are lucky enough to be given a cutting or some seeds. More often there is a table of plants for sale, or we visit specialist nurseries – resulting in a very gaudy (sometimes even prickled) set of passengers heading back to Aberystwyth.

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