Gardening Matters

EAGG holiday 23-26 June 2025

The 2025 holiday saw a group of us depart from Lavenham for York.  We were to spend three nights away, and visit seven gardens, including a whole day at RHS

Fullers Mill Garden

EAGG Visit – 12 May 2012 and again in August 2022 Fullers Mill Garden lies down a forest road just north of Bury St Edmunds. The sombre gloom of the

East Ruston Old Vicarage

Nestled in between the pages of the current novel to laze away the summer afternoons in the shade is a snow gum leaf, already in early August, turned red and

Summer Roses

“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon, to me these are the two most beautiful words in the English language.” Henry James. I have to agree with Henry James, although I must say

Spindle

Euonymus europaeus is one of our few native shrubs. In autumn it looks dramatic with its brightly coloured leaves and vivid, lobed fruits with bright orange seeds. It can be

True Blue

If you think about it, true blue flowers are quite rare; nature seems to favour a sort of washed out magenta or lilac. The flowers listed by nurserymen as blue

Lucy Hutchings

Troy Scott Smith

Steve Edney

Childerley Hall and Gardens

The original house was built by the first Sir John Cutts in the late 15th century. What you see today is probably the remains of the south wing, much altered

Andrew Ward

Joe Sharman aka Mr. Snowdrop