GC Meet - Norfolk East Ruston / Will Giles !! 11-Aug-2013

Following on from the success of the GC Meeting at Shiney's Open Day this thread is in order to canvass opinion on visiting East Ruston Old Vicarage (Norfolk coast "level with Norwich") and Will Giles garden (which is in Norwich - only open on Sundays, but I think he would open "for a group") and perhaps some nurseries in the area

East Ruston Old Vicarage
Will Giles exotic town house garden

Urban Jungle exotic plant nursery
Amulree exotic plant nursery

In case helpful there are some pictures on my blog
East Ruston Old Vicarage
Will Giles and Urban Jungle

If in principle you would be interested please reply here and thus once we have an indication of numbers we could try for some mutually convenient dates

Suggestions of other venues in the area, if we are up to it!, would be welcome

There is another thread discussing a GC Meet in Gloucestershire for Hidcote Manor / Kiftsgate Court:
http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/...tershire-hidcote-manor-kiftsgate-court.51943/

List of people who have expressed interest:

Kristen
JWK
Mum (only if there is Chicken Tawar though )
LindsayH
pamdish
Armandii
Lea
mowgley
Java&Me
Madahhlia
Trunky
Shiney

 

Is there a Chicken Tawar involved? Just asking

 

I'd love to get a second chance to meet you all! Weirdly, I do have to go to Norfolk some time this summer so maybe I could kill two birds with one stone.

 

I think that applies, but Will Giles garden is well established and probably gets under way earlier than the rest of us. He's on a South facing hillside so I'm guessing the cold air slides down, and he has a good angle for any Spring / Early Summer sun to warm the ground.

But I think July would be earliest, and August probably better. The only time I've been it was the last weekend of the season so of course everything was at its maximum-est

There is also an Exotic Garden at East Ruston, albeit a very different concept.

 

I could do that if dates fit as my friend lives 4 miles from there...

 

Does she do mates rates B&B?
(Well, someone had to ask! )

 

I would love to come along and meet you all.

 

I'm up for it

 

I've added a list of people who have expressed interest to the first post

 

I am always interested in taking part in GC meetings and I will keep monitoring them. Problem with me is that my 3 kids gets unwell in turns usually when there is a booked outing! somewhere, so it is kind of impossible for me at the moment to promise anything. Distance is not usually as much of an issue. So that's all what I can say so far!

 

I would be interested in the East Ruston/Will Giles trip, I fancy a weekend in Norfolk.

I think the time I visited before was probably August bank holiday and the Will Giles garden was looking fantastic. Being tropical, it takes most of the summer to really get going. I guess he has to start putting it to bed for the winter in early October.

 

I will ask as probably only overnighters ??

 

Hows about another one for us northern sorts?

Castle Howard, just outside of York springs to mind straight off the top of my head.
http://www.castlehoward.co.uk/House-and-grounds.html