EXPLORING GARDENS of SCOTLAND
14-17 September 2026
Accommodation at the King Robert Hotel, Stirling
Approx £659 tbc. Single supplement £20 per night
Costs include: 4 nights bed & breakfast & three course menu each night, glass of wine with dinner & tea/coffee after dinner. Porterage at hotel, Luxury coach, admissions to gardens & properties. Not included: lunches, teas and drinks unless specified
Gardens planned, but subject to change:
RHS Bridgewater
Drummond Castle & Gardens
Japanese Garden, Cowden
Geilston Garden NTS
Glasgow Botanical Garden
Branklyn Garden
Queen Anne Garden and Castle
Samlesbury House
Dinner on the way home at the Wynnstay Arms, Wrexham – not included in cost.
Contact Jan Eldridge for details & expressions of interest.
MEMBERS’ PLANTS FROM PAST TOURS
Kay Edwards
Agapanthus Northern Star’, growing happily now in West Wales, remind me of the fascinating Le Jardin Agapanthe in Grigneuseville, Normandy that we visited in 2018
Barb White
Surprise Tiger lilies from scratch.
Thought I’d send you the results of the bulblets that were given to us and many members by Jean Louis Dantec of L’Etang De Launay on our Normandy trip with the CHS in 2018. Did anyone else plant theirs? Tiger lilly, I think.
Philip Ellis reports that none came up from his batch: Barbara is lucky/greener-fingered!
Judith Bray
Guernsey Lilies?
I photographed these on our trip to Guernsey in Autumn 2004, assuming that they were Guernsey Lilies (Nerine sarniensis). However when I checked in my RHS Encyclopedia, they were the wrong colour and more likely to be Nerine bowdenii ‘Pink’. Oh well, what’s in a name – they were very pretty anyway.
Kay Edwards: Coreopsis ‘Full Moon’
Le Jardin Plume Normandy 2018
I was captivated by Coreopsis ‘Full Moon’ in Le Jardin Plume when the CHS visited Normandy in September 2018. It was flowering profusely all along the base of a dark wooden barn and I bought three plants from their nursery. I hope, in time, to create a similar effect here at home.
Kay Edwards
Rose in Memory of John Corfield.
During our CHS visit to Milntown, Isle of Man, John and I came across a fragrant rose we did not recognise, in the sheltered walled garden, still in full bloom in September. A gardener identified it as ‘Wild Edric’ a David Austin rose, named after a Shropshire Lord. I told John I would grow one… and here it is, flowering for the first time on my exposed Welsh hillside.
We are looking for plants from our past tours to fill this empty pot. They may have been a generous handful of distributed propagating material like Barbara’s lily bulblets, purchased from a special garden – or sourced after the bus has gone wild with excitement after spotting something new.