Day visits

Join us for a visit to Sissinghurst for an evening of  'Wine and Roses' in the garden led by the Head Gardener, Troy Scott Smith, who is restoring the roses that Vita Sackville West planted in the garden. We will meet at 6pm at the Elizabethan brick entrance to Sissinghurst, to enjoy our tour with […]

We will be visiting two wonderful gardens in Wiltshire, not far from Chippenham, both of which have collections of historic roses and are enchanting. Cadenham Manor This glorious four-acre garden is made up of a series of rooms around a listed manor house and dovecot.  Divided by yew hedges and moats, the garden rooms are […]

Once again, Mrs Rose Foyle has kindly agreed to host a day for HRG members to visit Carolside near Lauder in the Scottish Borders to take cuttings from the roses in her extensive collections. The date of 22 November is around a month later than that of last year's exercise. Whilst the general lack of success […]

Historic Roses Group morning visit to The Hope, near Ledbury. Afternoon visit to Little Malvern Court, also near Ledbury.

Historic Roses Group morning visit to Morton Hall, near Redditch. Afternoon visit to Coughton Court, near Alcester in Warwickshire.

Mrs Rose Foyle has very kindly agreed to host another cuttings day at Carolside in the Scottish Borders. Whilst previous cuttings events have been much later in the year, the date this time has been set for Wednesday August 21st starting at 11.30am. This will be an opportunity to obtain cutting material to propagate from […]