Beth Chatto gardens, this Saturday

[GrendelsMum]

I'm planning to visit the Beth Chatto gardens this Saturday - if anyone else feels like going and meeting up for a cup of tea etc, let me know!

Taffeta - whilst I may pass on the latin with a following wind, it doesn't make you a good gardener!

As for the next trip - where are we all based? Pannacotta and I are Norwich, GM is Cambridge - who else is interested?

I would love to tag along as an amateur. Can't be trusted to contribute anything much apart from a couple of boisterous children, but I am a good listener and would love to learn from you all.

I live in Kent. So we are all East, so far.....

Reading this with some . I'm in Glasgow, so anyone fancy a trip to Crarae or Benmore? . Would love to visit a garden with some proper plantswomen (I am not really one, sadly)

My mum went to the Beth Chatto garden last summer and bought me a gorgeous little violet with bronze tinged leaves - it's flowering madly atm and looking lovely in my very shady garden next to some pulmonarias and a tellima that has gone completely bonkers in the last two weeks.

We could always try Cambridge Botanic Gardens at some point, since it does have monthly children's activities.

www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/educevents.htm#beast

BTW, can anyone imagine what something that appears to be a variety of pulmonaria with pale yellow flowers and leaves which have an odd three dimensional surface to them might be?