Join us on Thursday 28 June 2018 to visit Bressingham Gardens, near Diss in Norfolk. We will depart Royal Square by coach at 9.15 am and leave Bressingham at 4.15 pm.

Tickets: Members £22 / Non-Members £24.

Tickets MUST be purchased in advance and will be available at our events, as well as directly from Colin Clifford (tel. 01206 322310). The ticket includes unlimited narrow gauge railway rides and three (not consecutive) rides on the Gallopers Roundabout.

The 50^th anniversary of Bressingham Gardens was featured in BBC’s Gardener’s World in September 2017 and expert gardener Carol Klein was very complimentary. Anyone who enjoys gardening and visiting gardens need to see this one for themselves. Even if you have visited in the past, the garden has developed and changed considerably in the recent years. So it’s time to visit again!

Whether novice or expert, everyone will surely enjoy the views, planting combinations and plants shown in six distinct gardens over 17 acres. Among them:

• the 48 island beds of Alan Bloom’s Dell Garden, stretching across six acres. Alan, a renowned perennial plantsman, collected plants from all over Europe, ending up by 1962 with nearly 5,000 different species and varieties, making this an important as well as a beautiful historical collection. This garden amazes with its rolling open landscape, its colour and variety – truly a Mecca for perennial-lovers.
• planting for year round colour with conifers and heathers in the Foggy Bottom Garden. Originally planted with over 500 different conifers and 100 heathers,  today a wealth of mature conifers, trees and shrubs from all over the world add a backdrop to ornamental grasses and perennials.
• the Summer Garden, created in 2001 and planted primarily with many varieties of Miscanthus sinensis. It now represents the National Collection of Miscanthus for the British Isles and in late summer offers a backdrop to colourful summer-flowering perennials which drift among them, including a spectacular ‘river’ of Geranium ‘Rozanne’, and other innovative plantings.
• a new pathway connecting the Dell Garden with Foggy Bottom, Adrian’s Wood. Now, it is being replanted with entirely North American-origin plants including redwoods now more than 8Oft (24m) high.
• the Fragrant Garden, which is being designed and planted with an interesting range of plants with fragrant flowers and foliage. It is situated next to the picnic area, where visitors can enjoy flowers and fragrance throughout the summer.