Wednesday 7 April 2010
Marks Hall Gardens and Arboretum, Essex
East Bergholt Place & Nursery, Suffolk

This event is for members only and must be pre-booked.

Our morning visit is to Marks Hall at Coggleshall, the main purpose of which is to see the arboretum. We will have a tour conducted by the arboretum team. The development of the arboretum is an ongoing project to achieve a vast collection of shrubs and trees from all over the temperate world. The collection is planted on a geographical theme, so plants from the principal regions of the world are grouped together. There are areas representing Europe, Japan, China, Asia, the Americas and Gondwanaland (Southern Hemisphere).

www.markshall.org.uk

After lunch we will take the short journey to East Bergholt Place, where there is an excellent spring garden, listed by the Daily Telegraph as one of the 50 best spring gardens in the UK. Again we will have a guided tour with time left to browse in the nursery, which comes highly recommended by some of our members.

www.placeforplants.co.uk

You will find full details and booking form in the Autumn Newsletter.