Day Trips

CHS SUMMER DAY TRIPS FROM ABERYSTWYTH 2024

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 Plas Crug Leisure Centre, Llanbadarn Rd, Aberystwyth SY23 1HL. Pickups are negotiable en route: contact Outings Organisers. All costs exclude meals. Menus for optional prebooked meals will be circulated in due course, or bring a picnic. The CHS committee welcome suggestions for future venues. Details of gardens are in the spring issue of Spadework.
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DATE & TIME	DESTINATION	DETAILS & COST ESTIMATES
Tuesday 14 May Dep. 8.45 am Ret. 6.30pm	Rock Mill Garden Montgomery Gregynog Hall Newtown .	Estimated cost £25.00 per person. Range of meals to pre-order at Gregynog.
Thursday 13 June Dep. 8.30 am Ret. 6.30pm	Dyffryn Fernant Fishguard Pont Trecynny Fishguard	Estimated cost £32.00 per person. Optional refreshments to be ordered separately. Further information to follow.
Wednesday 17 July Dep. 8am Ret. 7.30pm	Plas Cadnant Anglesey	Estimated cost £31.00 per person. Food may be purchased from cafe at garden.
Friday 16 August Dep. 2.30pm Ret. approx 8pm	NGS Garden Tanffordd Evening meal TBA	Estimated cost £20.00 per person. Wide range of meals available for pre-order. Further information to follow.
Wednesday 4 September Dep. 8.15am Ret 7pm	Tranquility Haven Knighton The Hymns Presteign	Estimated cost £34.00 per person. Optional refreshments to be ordered separately. Further information to follow.

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!