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 […]
19.04.22
This lecture, on the Art and Engineering of Water in the 17th century, is about the beauty and ingenuity of water features, principally in gardens of the 17th century, presented by Steve Temple. It will be given over Zoom on 19 April at 7.00 pm. Tickets £4 for BGHG members and £6 for non-members. Booking […]
02.04.22
The Folly Fellowship invite you to join with their Zoom talk on Saturday at 20.00hrs
20.03.22
Sunday 20 March 2022 2.30pm ON ZOOM Speaker Sarah Gray will talk about the gardens of the Borromeo family. Powerful in Milan, they have long owned strategic castles and estates surrounding the lake and, from the 17th century, fantastical palaces and gardens on the islands, Isola Bella and Isola Madre.
