Sheila Meekums: A Memorable Visit Every February tiny green shoots push through a crisp layer of leaf litter. Within a few days encouraged by spring-like sunshine, a mass of nodding white miniature bells magically appear. Great Brickhill Manor opens its wrought iron gates on only two days every year to allow a glimpse into this...Read More
MEDIA RELEASE 23rd January 2025 New bug homes arrive in city park If you go down to the woods today, you… may see some unusual trees? There’s a new addition of deadwood poles, installed to create vital habitat for bugs, birds and other wildlife. Over the last few years, The Parks Trust with support...Read More
Snowdrop walks in Buckinghamshire 2025 Its snowdrop time and February is the month Galanthus nivalis as the most common variety is officially known. So, get on your walking shoes, wrap up warm and treat yourself to the wonderful site of sweeps of snowdrops covering the parklands, woodland, churchyards, and gardens of Buckinghamshire. Snowdrop time also...Read More
Gardens and Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects The proposed Fens Reservoir, in Cambridgeshire. Image: Anglian Water. https://fensreservoir.co.uk/ The Gardens Trust is launching a new volunteer training project examining Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPS) – large scale projects in England and Wales that are deemed critical to our national economic sustainability and climate resilience. It will research...Read More
BERKSHIRE GARDEN TRUST’S FEBUARY 2025 ZOOM LECTURE Wednesday 26 February 2025 at 7pm (book by 23rd January please see below) £7 for BGT Topiary: a history of creative use. Talk by Bruce Ginsberg We are very pleased to welcome Bruce Ginsberg, a founding member of the European Boxwood and Topiary Society in the 90’s and...Read More
BERKSHIRE GARDEN TRUST’S ZOOM LECTURE Wednesday 22 January 2025 at 7pm Great British Parks – A Concise History Talk by Paul Rabbitts We are very pleased to welcome Paul Rabbitts, a Landscape Architect and current Parks and Open Spaces Manager for Norwich City Council, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of...Read More
6th January 2025 The Parks Trust’s accessible events dial up a notch for 2025! As we shake off the cobwebs and head into a brand-new year, there are plenty of activities to enjoy across the city’s parks. This year, The Parks Trust are pleased to announce many new accessible events and activities that enable more...Read More
Happy New Year to all Gardens Trust followers on Eventbrite! We have two great online series starting next week: The fourth series of A History of Gardens will kick off on Tuesday 7th January, examining Nineteenth-Century Gardens. We look forward to welcoming you back if you joined us for some or all of the previous...Read More
Fagus Sylvatica Dawyck—-The Dawyck Beech This columnar tree grew as a chance sapling at Dawyck in Peebleshire in Scotland at the home of Colonel Balfour, a cousin of J F Roxburgh who was the first headmaster of Stowe School taking up the post in 1923. Like Balfour, Roxburgh originated from Scotland but was to stay...Read More
Monty Don’s new BBC series is set to launch this month. In his new project he visits Chatsworth, Battersea Power Station, Little Sparta and St Just Church and featuresm classic British topics including gnomes and the Chelsea Flower Show. According to the BBC, the series will show “what gardens can tell us about the country’s...Read More
