Life's about experiences. These are mine.
When browsing the events page of the RHS website recently (as you do) I noticed that they have started to do ‘behind-the-scenes’ tours of the Hilltop building so I booked us up for the earliest date we could all do. Hilltop at RHS Wisley opened in 2019 after a £35 million pound investment in the …
We love Wisley and are regular visitors. Every time we go back there is something new to see as the colours change over the seasons. It is a place for relaxation, I find it easy to switch off there, and inspiration for my own garden. So we were looking forward to our visit today especially …
More by accident than by design we have ended up visiting three RHS shows in gardens in consequtive weeks and I am not sorry! As I sit here writting this with the rain pouring down outside the window I still marvel at the fact that we managed three days over three weeks in perfect weather. …
It’s that time of the year again when we try and counter the excesses of Christmas and prove that our National Trust Membership is still worth having. This is year six and you can see the previous entries here: 2014/5, 2015/6, 2016/7 (either didn’t do it or forgot to write about it that year), 2017/18 …
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It seems that this has become a bit of a “thing”. This is the fifth year of getting out post Christmas to work off some of the chocolate consumed and make the most of our National Trust Membership. You can see the previous entries here, 2014/5, 2015/6, 2016/7 (either didn’t do it or forgot to …
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We eschewed the delights of a Premier Inn breakfast and instead chose to hit the road early and make our way from Kent to Surrey and the RHS gardens at Wisley. We are recent members of the RHS having been wowed by a previous visit to the Chelsea Flower Show. If any of this is …
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