The Essex HPS Group is planning a four day coach trip for next year, and plan to come to the west country in early June, with Hestercombe and Iford Manor among their destinations.  

Their members (like ours!) are much more keen on visiting private gardens, partly because the scale is closer to their own, and partly in the hope of buying rare and interesting plants ridiculously cheaply.

Tom Fenton, who’s organising the trip, has asked if I could recommend any of Somerset Group’s members’ gardens, or others, that might fit that bill and would take a coachload (about 30) of plantaholics for a modest fee.

Any ideas to me please.

Stuart

(stuart_senior@msn.com)