The Professional Gardeners’ Guild

About the Professional Gardeners’ Guild

For over 30 years the PGG has been the meeting touchstone for professional gardeners employed in private gardens and estates. Our aims are to promote professional contact, share information and skills and, through our extensive ongoing learning and traineeships, to continue to provide the horticultural industry with skilled gardeners and garden managers. But it’s not all work, work, work – the PGG events are very social activities and we look forward to welcoming new members.

The objectives of the Guild are:

• To promote and encourage professional contact, communication and co-operation between gardeners.
• To promote better management and maintenance of gardens and designed landscapes, especially those of historic, horticultural and botanic value.
• To promote and encourage the exchange of ideas and information on all aspects of professional gardening, including the use of both new technology and traditional skills, by means such as meetings, conferences and publications.
• To promote training of an appropriate kind in schools, colleges and the work place, in order to provide the horticultural industry with skilled gardeners and garden managers.
• To promote gardening as a profession and to assist in the placement of professional gardeners in private employment.
• To promote and maintain close links with related organisations.

The Professional Gardener Journal

The PGG produces a quarterly journal, The Professional Gardener, with articles produced almost entirely by members of the Guild. Used frequently by members as a forum for discussion, a means of communication and a source of reference, it contains regular articles on plants and gardens, news, views and reports from both local and national meetings. There are also topical features focusing on a particular element of heritage gardening, e.g. tree planting or water management.

For more information about the journal, please click here.