Wednesday 5 July 2023
Sussex Prairie Garden is an attractive, eight-acre prairie garden, featured in The English Garden magazine. Wakehurst, “Kew’s wild botanic garden”, has 500 acres of designed gardens and landscapes. Managed by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, it is also home to the Millennium Seedbank, the UK’s largest conservation project.
Coach from the front entrance to Dulwich Picture Gallery, College Road, SE21 7BG – 8.45am for prompt 9.00am departure; back around 5.30pm. We will arrive at Sussex Prairie Garden at around 10.30am. Following a tour of the gardens we will move on to Wakehurst for lunch (not included), with an early afternoon tour. Plant sales are available at both gardens - please bring bags.
Tickets, including transport, entrance to Sussex Prairie Gardens and tours, are £35 each and may be purchased through Eventbrite - search “Dulwich Society” or by cheque (see 'Read More' below). Entrance to Wakehurst is not included in the ticket price; entrance is free to National Trust and Kew members; for non-NT/Kew members, group entrance is £13 which will be collected on the coach.
All members of the Dulwich Society and friends are welcome, and early booking is advised. Enquiries to Jeremy Prescott -
Sussex Prairie Garden is an attractive, eight-acre prairie garden, featured in The English Garden magazine. Planted in a naturalistic style, it uses flowering plants and grasses that have a close relationship in form, foliage and flower with their native or non-native counterparts. Free-flowing, generous groupings of plants give the garden impact and structure, attract and sustain a host of wildlife and are sympathetic to its landscape setting. We will be given a tour by one of its creators. Many of the plants seen in the garden can also be bought in its nursery.
Wakehurst, “Kew’s wild botanic garden”, has 500 acres of designed gardens and landscapes. Managed by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, it is also home to the Millennium Seedbank, the UK’s largest conservation project. The Mansion Gardens near its Elizabethan mansion include a walled garden, winter, water and bog garden and Iris dell, with a spectacular American Prairie-like grassland nearby. For the more adventurous, there are important living collections connected to form a “woodlands of the world” walk.
Tickets, including transport, entrance to Sussex Prairie Gardens and tours, are £35 each and may be purchased through Eventbrite (search “Dulwich Society”) or by sending a cheque (payable to The Dulwich Society) with a note of the names of those you are booking for, your email address and telephone number, and a stamped addressed envelope to Jeremy Prescott, 142 Court Lane, London SE21 7EB. No refund will be given in the event of your cancellation.
Entrance to Wakehurst is not included in the ticket price. Entrance is free to National Trust members, so please bring your membership card; for non-NT members, group entrance is £13 which will be collected on the coach.