Perennial Events

Firle, Lewes, Sussex, BN8 6LP

Plenty of inspiration to kick off your gardening year - and Perennial's stall will have a great selection of gifts, cards and gardening sundries.

Chiddingfold, Surrey GU8 4SN

Perennial will have a range of gardening sundries, gifts and cards at this spring event.

Visit our gifts and gardening stall at this Detling show.

Saturday 1st May 11am-4pm
The Miners Arms, Whitecroft, Gloucestershire GL15 4PE

IN AID OF PERENNIAL
Specialist plant nurseries, crafts, garden designers, garden supplies, b-b-q and other attractions.
FREE PARKING AND FREE ENTRY
Further information from James Hyde on 01594 560626 or 07974 425431.

We'll be selling our fab range of gifts and gardening sundries.

Perennial will have a range of gardening sundries, gifts and cards at this spring event. Do come and visit our stall and treat yourself to a gift in the knowledge that you are helping someone in horticulture in their hour of need.

Lullingstone Castle, Eynsford, Kent, DA4 0JA

Fabulous plants, the famous World Garden and the most glorious English setting - there couldn't be a better way to spend a Sunday in early summer! And of course a great selection of gifts and cards on the Perennial stall.

We'll have a range of gifts and gardening sundries at this world-famous flower show.

Venue: Poulton Hall, Bebington, Wirral, Cheshire
Date: Wednesday 26th May, 10.30 - 3.00pm
Price: £30, including a 2-course buffet lunch

The enchanting gardens of Poulton Hall form a commemoration to the work of children’s author Roger Lancelyn-Green.

The day begins with coffee and a talk about the history of the hall and gardens from the owner June Lancelyn Green, after which guests can explore the gardens with a written guide before enjoying a 2-course buffet lunch in the barn.

Venue: Bledlow, Buckinghamshire
Date: Friday 28th May
Time:10.30am - 3.30pm
Cost: £50, including lunch

A private visit to Lord Carrington's wonderful gardens, which are noted for the parterre, topiary, walled vegetable garden and unique Lyde Garden, which lies along the banks of a tributary of the River Thames. There is also a spectacular collection of contemporary sculptures.

After an introductory talk from Lord Carrington, you will be free to explore these beautiful and extensive gardens at your leisure.

A great family day out at a lovely Thames-side location - and lots of wonderful Perennial gifts and gardening sundries!

White Waltham, Berkshire

A great family event, which will be supporting Perennial.

Venue: Near Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Date: Thursday 3rd June
Time: 3.00pm - 7.00pm
Cost: £25, including afternoon tea

Join us for afternoon tea at this lovely 6½ acre Cotswold garden with mature trees, azaleas, species and hybrid rhododendrons, magnolias, mountain tree peonies, and the national collection of arbutus.

Our guided tour will take in the Japanese garden, rose garden, catalpa walk, secret
garden, Victorian kitchen garden, and the exotic garden with palms, cypresses and olive trees, which was established in 2002.

Location: Alresford, Hampshire
Date: Thursday 3rd June
Time: 10.00am - 4.00pm
Cost: £55, including lunch

Two glorious English gardens in one day!

Dean House has a magnificent seven acres of formal and informal gardens that include a symmetrical rose garden, orchard, sweeping lawns and well stocked glass houses.

After a buffet lunch at Dean House, we visit Victoria Wakefield’s Bramdean House, a
stunning six-acre garden noted for its mirror-image herbaceous borders, kitchen garden and collection of old-fashioned sweet peas.

Venue: Royal Highland Show Ground, Ingliston, Edinburgh
Date: 4th, 5th or 6th June
Time: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Cost: £30, with lunch

Gardening Scotland is Scotland's premier gardening event. In celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the show and Perennial's 170th birthday, we have created this special ticket for 2009, which includes a day pass to Gardening Scotland and a two-course lunch at the Quality Hotel, adjacent to the show ground.

Tickets for this event can be obtained by calling the Gardening Scotland ticket line on 0131 333 0965 (not the Perennial ticket line), quoting 'Perennial offer'.

Location: Wilton, Nr Salisbury, Wilts
Date: Tuesday 8th June
Time: 10.30am - 3.30pm
Cost: £45, including a buffet lunch

Wilton House is the family home of the Earl of Pembroke. With its history, architecture and art treasures, his 460-year-old Palladian style mansion attracts visitors from all over the world.
The grounds, bordered by the Rivers Wylye and Nadder, are a mixture of small gardens created by the 17th Earl of Pembroke, and open parkland.

There are 21 acres of gardens and parkland to enjoy in this idyllic setting, including the Woodland Walk, Old Rose Garden and Oriental Water Garden as well as the beautiful herbaceous border.

A morning guided tour of the house will be followed by a delicious 2-course buffet lunch. In the afternoon, our guests will be free to explore the beautiful gardens and other attractions.

Location: Near Thame, Oxfordshire
Date: Thursday 10th June
Time: 10.30am - 3.00pm
Cost: £50, including picnic lunch

By kind invitation of Mr & Mrs Bernard Taylor, we are fortunate to have this opportunity to see the extensive and creative restoration of this 350-acre Capability Brown park, which is not open to the public.

Mrs Taylor and her gardening team will provide a two-hour guided tour of Rycote Park, during which we will be able to admire the restoration work that has been carried out in the greenhouses and walled garden.

A visit to the Chapel of St Michael built in 1449 is also included in the tour.

After lunch in the barn, guests may revisit favourite areas of the garden at their leisure.

Ardingly, West Sussex

Perennial will be selling a range of gifts and gardening sundries.

Venue: Ripon, North Yorkshire
Date: Wednesday 16th June
Time: 10:30am - 3:30pm
Cost: £30, including a picnic lunch and tea

Edward Harland, Head Gardener at Littlethorpe Manor, will lead a tour of the 11-acre gardens. Highlights include the walled garden, sunken parterre garden, terrace and fountain lawn, hornbeam and yew hedges.

After our picnic lunch, you will be free to wander around the gardens at your leisure before afternoon tea.

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Location: Burford, Oxfordshire
Date: Wednesday 16th June
Tme: 10.00am – 4.30pm
Cost: £55, including lunch

Designed by I & J Bannerman in 1998, the
gardens of Asthall Manor blend form and freedom, open views and secret spaces.
With long tranquil walks bordered by sharp wedges of yew, vast beeches enclosing a
hidden lake, orchards sloping down to the mill stream, stone tubs overgrown with
roses and a formal box-bordered parterre, these gardens provide a wonderful setting for ‘On Form’, the exhibition of stone sculpture which you’ll discover as you explore the grounds.

After a pub lunch, we travel by coach to nearby Westwell Manor. The enclosed garden surrounding the Tudor manor house includes the Moonlight Garden, where white plants catch the moonlight in an area encircled by a yew hedge, herbaceous border, potager, rose garden, water gardens and orchard, as well as experiments in land art.

Venue: Wells, Somerset
Date: Thursday 17th June
Time: 10:30am - 3:30pm
Cost: £45, including lunch

More than simply an historic house and garden, this splendid medieval palace has been the home of the Bishops of Bath and Wells for 800 years. There are 14 acres of gardens including the springs from which the city takes its name. Visitors can also see the Bishop’s private Chapel, ruined Great Hall and the Gatehouse with portcullis and drawbridge beside which the famous mute swans ring a bell for food.

Guests will enjoy guided tours of both the Palace buildings and the gardens and a delicious 2-course lunch in the Palace Restaurant in the Medieval Undercroft.

Loseley Park, Godalming Surrey

LAST FEW TICKETS REMAINING
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Location: Morville, Shropshire
Date Saturday 19th June, 10.30am - 3.00pm
Cost: £45, including a buffet lunch

Dr Katherine Swift, creator of the Dower House Garden and author of the bestselling book ‘The Morville Hours’, will reveal the meaning behind the many different elements in this evocative garden. Within the garden’s one and a half acres, Dr Swift has sought to illustrate the sorts of garden that might have existed at Morville Hall since the days when a Benedictine monastery stood on the site, including a herbalist’s cloister garden (c.1450), a knot garden (c.1580), a canal garden (c.1710), a New Flower garden (c.1780), a Victorian rose border, and an Edwardian fruit and vegetable garden. A fascinating lesson in garden design history!

There will also be a guided tour of the interior of Morville Hall, by kind invitation of the tenants, Dr and Mrs Douglas. Other tenants on this National Trust property will also be opening their gardens for Perennial guests.
We will have a buffet lunch in the village hall.

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Location: Near Oundle, Northamptonshire
Date: Wednesday 23rd June
Time: 10.30am - 3.30pm
Cost: £50, including lunch and tea

Respected garden writer Ursula Buchan will be welcoming Perennial’s guests into her private garden for this very special visit.

The garden extends to more than three acres although only one acre is intensively cultivated. It is a country garden with flower borders,lawns, kitchen garden, orchard, fruit cage, meadow, nuttery, native hedging and trees.

In addition to the garden tour, broadcaster Nigel Colborn will provide a talk - ‘Gardening in a Changing World’ - in the morning, and Ursula will talk about wildlife in the garden during the afternoon.

Location: Dronfield, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Date: Thursday 24th June
Time: 10.30am – 3.00pm
Cost: £30, including 2-course buffet lunch

The design of the garden at Fanshawe Gate Hall is inspired by natural materials and historical associations of the house and its surroundings, where the mellow Derbyshire sandstone of the 16th C hall is repeated in the imposing stone gateposts and dovecote, relics of a once large house.

Over the past decade these wonderful gardens have been substantially redesigned to reflect more closely the style of the Tudor era, when the Fanshawe family was at the height of its influence.

A guided tour with the owners Mr and Mrs Ramsden will be followed by lunch in the Hall.
Plants and exclusive garden history book sales on the day.

Venue: Belgravia, London
Date: Thursday 24th June
Time: 11am - 2.00pm
Cost: £30 or £75 for all three London walks (to book all three please select the 'All three London walks' item on the events shopping page)

These mysterious, shady squares and leafy open spaces make an enduring contribution to the quality of life in London and provide a haven for wildlife.

Our leisurely walk (approx 2 miles) around the Grosvenor Estate gardens will be led by Stephen Smith, the Estate's Landscape Manager, and will include a variety of formal and informal gardens and squares.

Location: Adel, near Leeds
Date: Tuesday June 29th
Time: 10.45am - 4.00pm
Cost: £25, including buffet lunch

It will be a real pleasure to welcome guests to this event at Perennial’s very own York Gate. A garden of immense style and craftsmanship and widely recognised as one of the most innovative small gardens of the mid 20th Century, York Gate is brimful of wonderful detail.

Divided by yew and beech hedges into ‘garden rooms’, York Gate packs so much into its single acre – the White and Silver Garden, the Old Orchard, Sybil’s Garden, the magnificent Yew sails and immaculate topiary throughout.

After morning coffee there will be guided tours of the garden, followed by a buffet lunch. In the afternoon, garden writer Andrew Mikolajski will provide a lively talk, and will be signing copies of his latest book, ‘1001 Gardening Questions’.
Guests will then be free to enjoy the garden at leisure.

Location: Perch Hill, East Sussex
Date: Wednesday 30th June
Time: 10.30am - 4.30pm
Cost: £65, including lunch

The glorious gardens at Perch Hill are a flourishing testament to Sarah Raven’s gardening philosophy, achieving a perfect balance of productivity with respect for the natural environment, and a seemingly effortless beauty.

Sarah will provide an introductory talk on the gardens, where everything grown is used for cutting or for the kitchen.

A fabulous two-course lunch will include produce from the farm and gardens. Guests are then welcome to return to the gardens.

Venue: Bourne, Lincolnshire
Date: Thursday 1st July
Time: 10:30am - 3:30pm
Cost: £45, includes buffet lunch & cream tea

Led by the Head Gardener, our tour of these glorious gardens will include the ornamental kitchen garden, stately formal rose parterre and herbaceous border, which is a riot of colour throughout the summer months.

After a buffet lunch in the Head Gardener's private garden (weather permitting), there will be an opportunity to revisit favourite parts of the garden at your leisure and see a willow weaving demonstration from John Shone and Louise Keeley. The visit will conclude with a cream tea.

Grimsthorpe Castle is part of Hidden England

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Location: Near Wellington, Somerset
Date: Friday 2nd July
Time: 10.30am - 3.30pm
Cost: £45, including lunch

Said to be the finest example of a small
medieval manor in England, Cothay dates back to the 14th Century. 12 acres of magical gardens surround the manor, which is still in private ownership.

Many garden rooms, each a garden in itself, are set off a 200-yard yew walk. In addition there is a bog garden with azaleas, fine trees, a cottage garden, courtyards, and a river walk.

Guests will enjoy a guided tour of this historic manor followed by a delicious lunch. In the afternoon guests will be free to explore the beautiful gardens.

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Location: Near Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire
Date: Friday 9th July
Time: 10.30am - 3.00pm
Cost: £55, including home-cooked lunch

Restaurateur, TV cook, author of countless cookery books and successful novelist Prue Leith OBE is most generously hosting this visit to her beautiful 5-acre Cotswold garden.

With breathtaking views across the surrounding countryside, the gardens at Chastleton Glebe boast a lake, Cotswold terraces (including one red), a rose tunnel, woods, and - naturally - well stocked vegetable and flower parterres.

Prue will introduce you to her garden, which you will then be free to wander around at leisure. The visit includes a wonderful home-cooked lunch specially prepared for us by Prue and her team.

TICKETS ONLY AVAILABLE TO PERENNIAL SUPPORTER SCHEME MEMBERS UP UNTIL 28/2/10 – PLEASE CALL 0845 676 0636. AVAILABLE TO ALL ONLINE FROM 1/3/10.

Location: Brailsford, Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Date: Thursday 15th July
Time: 10.30am - 3.00pm
Cost: £40, including lunch

The Burrows is set in five acres of rugged Derbyshire countryside and is a comparatively new garden. Designer/owner Craig Dalton has transformed fields into old and new formal areas, including Italian and Roman gardens. Vistas take in urns, pools and fountains whilst walkways snake around mature trees and traditional and modern planting schemes.

After a welcome drink, guests will be taken on a tour of the gardens by Mr Dalton and will hear the story of its creation. Following the tour a hot 2-course lunch will be served in the garden.

Mr Dalton will then be on hand to answer questions as guests are welcome to revisit favourite parts of the garden at their leisure.
Plant sales on the day

Location: Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway
Date: Thursday 15th July
Time: 6.30pm - 9.30pm
Cost: £30, with wine and canapés

Home of the renowned Scottish colourist and “Glasgow Boy” E A Hornel, Broughton House, an elegant 18th C building with pink lime washed exterior, stands in the heart of Kirkcudbright.

We have arranged an exclusive evening opening at which Head Gardener Nick Hoskins will be giving guided tours of the garden, which bursts with blooms and tumbles down toward the River Dee.

Guests will also have the chance to tour the house and enjoy the many examples of Hornel’s glorious artwork that still line the walls.

Venue: Meeting at St. Paul's tube station
Date: Sunday 18th July
Time: 1.30pm - 4.30pm
Cost: £30 or £75 if you book all three London walks. (To book all three online please select the 'All three London walks' item on the events shopping page)

This guided walk around some of the city’s historic gardens and public spaces will include a variety of gardens several ancient City churchyards including that of the Cathedral, and a modern vertical garden.

This fascinating, leisurely walk of around 3 miles long will finish at the Cathedral.

Location: White Waltham, Berkshire
Date: Tuesday 27th July
Time: 10.30am - 3.30pm
£55, including lunch and tea

Home to the Oppenheimer family, the estate at Waltham Place has been created and is maintained using strictly organic methods. These beautiful and extensive gardens range from the formal and ornamental to the naturalistic; everywhere a delight in nature exudes and much is done to protect and encourage wildlife.

The Head Gardener will be our guide as we take in areas such as the quiet garden, long borders, butterfly garden and kitchen garden – the source of many of the ingredients of our lunch, which will be served in the restaurant.

In the afternoon guests may wander at leisure, enjoying the peace and tranquility of these lovely gardens.

Location: Near Oakham, Rutland
Date: Saturday 7th August
Time: from 7.30pm
Cost: £15, including light supper

A summer evening in Nick Hamilton’s glorious Barnsdale Gardens with a live jazz band and hog roast.

Location: meet at Hampstead tube station
Date: Sunday 8th August
Time: 1.30am - 4.30pm
Cost: £30 or £75 for all three London Walks (To purchase all three tickets please select the 'All three London Walks ' item on the events shopping page.)

This gentle walk of around 3-4 miles will take in Hill Garden and Pergola on Hampstead Heath. The garden was developed in two stages - both designed by Thomas Mawson (1861 - 1933) beginning in 1906 with the conversion of a very steep site with magnificent views over the Heath. The creation of the raised, 800 foot long Pergola was completed in 1925, and gave the garden its wonderful atmosphere of 'a garden in the air'. Recently renovated by the Corporation of London at a cost of almost £1.5 million, this garden is one of London's hidden treasures.

This visit will end at Fenton House, a National Trust property with a delightful 18th Century garden.

TICKETS ONLY AVAILABLE TO PERENNIAL SUPPORTER SCHEME MEMBERS UP UNTIL 28/2/10 – PLEASE CALL 0845 676 0636. AVAILABLE TO ALL ONLINE FROM 1/3/10.

Venue: Nr Dorchester, Dorset
Date: Tuesday 22nd September
Time: 10.30am - 3.30pm
Cost: £45, including lunch

Athelhampton House is a magnificent 15th Century manor house whose interiors feature heraldic glass, linenfold panelling and antique furnishings.

The House is surrounded by the Grade 1 listed gardens - the famous 30 foot high topiary pyramids dominate the Great Court and water forms a recurring theme with pools, with fountains and the River Piddle running through the grounds. The ancient dovecote still houses a dozen white doves.

A morning guided tour of the house and garden will be followed by a home-cooked lunch. In the afternoon guests can revisit favourite areas of the house and gardens.

TICKETS ONLY AVAILABLE TO PERENNIAL SUPPORTER SCHEME MEMBERS UP UNTIL 28/2/10 – PLEASE CALL 0845 676 0636. AVAILABLE TO ALL ONLINE FROM 1/3/10.

Location: Great Saling, Essex
Date: Thursday 7th October
Time: 10.30am – 3.30pm
Cost: £50, including a hot picnic lunch

Hugh and Judy Johnson have been restoring and enlarging the work of Isobel Lady Carlyle, who moved to Saling in 1936. Hugh has created open spaces in the garden each with a mood of its own. Some are bright, airy, high-coloured, others romantic with the play of water in shadow, or tranquil with the patterns of trunks and leaves.

Sculpture provides reference points to memories of the classical world of the orient, and plants are used for their intrinsic beauty and botanical interest, but also for the many different senses of place and mood they can contribute to an escapist horticultural excursion.

Venue: Oatridge College, Broxburn, Edinburgh
Date: Saturday 20th November
Time: 10.30am - 4.00pm
Cost: £30, including lunch

Join us at Oatridge College for a fabulous day of seasonal fine foods, festive flowers and plants. From flower arranging to gourmet food, our day includes everything that you will need to make Christmas extra special this year, as well as a sumptuous buffet lunch.