14.07.22
Dorneywood near Slough, is only open to the public for a limited number of days in the summer. Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust have been fortunate to obtain tickets for a tour of the house and garden which is the grace and favour residence of The Chancellor of the Exchequer. The visit is at 2pm, and includes […]
14.07.22
Join NGT & the Friends of University Park for a tour of some of the less known gardens, old and new, of University Park, Nottingham, including the Millennium Garden, Highfield House, Lenton Hall, the Firs and the Gertrude Jekyll garden. Photo: mattbuck https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:University_Park_MMB_W2_Millennium_Garden.jpg
22.06.22
The garden created by Alice de Rothschild. A private bus will take us from car park at Waddesdon Manor for a guided tour of this beautiful four-acre walled garden, with orchard and glasshouses. The visit includes lunch at the Manor Restaurant. After lunch, you will be free to enjoy the Waddedon gardens and Alice’s Wonderlands […]
27.05.22
May 27 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm £20 Wormsley is the private home of the Getty family. We shall enjoy a guided tour of the two-acre former kitchen garden. With an abundance of close planting, redesigned by Penelope Hobhouse into four garden rooms. Tickets £20 Refreshments included (50 places). Car parking.
19.05.22
These 5 zoom lectures focus on new concepts for the designed environment in diverse locations, the influences on, and careers of, the most influential designers of the era, while the final lecture focuses on Plantspeople – both amateur and professional. £15 members, £30 non-members. Individual lectures £3 and £6.
26.04.22
April 26, 10:30 am – 4:00 pm £25 Chenies Manor is renowned for its tulips which should be at their best for our visit. The 5 acres of garden include a Sunken Garden, White Garden, and Kitchen Garden. We will also visit the 15th-century manor house. Coffee on arrival and a light lunch included.
21.04.22
OGT talk. Annabel Downs, chair of the Friends of Landscape Archive at Reading (FOLAR), outlines some of the exciting years between the founding of the Landscape Institute (c.1930) and 25 years on, when the library and archive relocated to The Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading.
21.04.22
Ahead of the Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust visit on the 8th June to Turn End, Haddenham, the Trust has been given permission to show a beautiful, 45-minute, documentary by Murray Grigor and Hamid Shams about the history of Turn End House and garden. Thurs April 21 @ 7pm £5.00 Please note this event is now going […]
