September 17-21 2026 By Charlotte Maclean and Elizabeth HilliardIn our anniversary year of 2026, and to celebrate 30 years of the European Boxwood and Topiary Society, EBTS UK enjoyed a fantastic tour of two areas of Belgium, Flanders in the north, which is Flemish speaking, and Wallonia in the south where the main language is […]
Thirty seven members joined this two-day visit to Northamptonshire on June 25th and 26th 2025. We visited a a total of four gardens: Cottesbrooke Hall, Thorpe Malsor Hall, Kelmarsh Hall and Coton Manor.
At the end of May we were the guests of Dominic and Amanda Vail at Floriston Hall and Denny Swete at Tinkers Green Farm in Suffolk.
It’s not often that a garden tour commences with a fabulous fireworks display but this is exactly what happened to the lucky group who came on the annual foreign trip! In the heart of Copenhagen is a very famous garden, TIVOLI, which is better known for its funfair. It is also a garden which the Danes are […]
The first garden visited was Mapperton House, near Beaminster, the ancestral home of the Earls of Sandwich. According to a vote by ‘Country Life’ it is ‘the nation’s finest manor house’. The Earl and Countess’ son, Luke, and his wife, Julie, the Viscount and Viscountess of Hinchingbroke, live there and manage the estate. It has also […]
This was a new experiment for a day of garden visits in which members bring their own picnic lunch to enjoy whilst visiting two very special private gardens. The day was been organised by Charlotte Maclean, Deputy Chairman of EBTS UK, who kindly invited everyone to her garden for a lunch break and photographs were […]
Mid-May saw EBTS UK members from across the UK & USA getting together in the delights of the Cumbrian countryside for the AGM weekend of garden visits and talks
Review of the day out written by Neil Cave with photographs by Chris Redston
