Please click on link to get full copy of Spring 2025 Newsletter: BGT Spring 2025 Newsletter Final CB Dear Members As I write on yet another January day of anti-cyclonic gloom, we can be reassured that the days are getting longer, and spring is just around the corner. My events team have organised an amazing...Read More
Please click on link to view Newsletter: BGT Autumn 2024 Newsletter draft The Newsletter of the Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust Autumn 2024 Claire, receiving her award from The Gardens Trust for Exceptional Contribution Award. The Gardens Trust Exceptional Contribution Award. The Trustees and Council of Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust are thrilled that Claire de Carle, the Chair,...Read More
Barry Smith, Head Gardener at Stowe and Founding Member of Buckinghamshire Gardens, Trust receiving his award. “We are so proud to share that Barry Smith, our Head Gardener (who has been at Stowe for 43 years!) has won the ‘Think Now and Forever’ award at the National Trust London and South East Living our Values...Read More
The discovery and celebration of Robert Marnock as a C19 garden designer is gaining momentum and the attached are a number of recent talks we now have links for. Claire de Carle and Trust Researchers have researched the three Buckinghamshire sites and produced a report and display about Marnock’s work at a cluster of...Read More
Dear Members By the time you receive this newsletter, I hope that Spring will have sprung, and we can get out in our gardens, in my case I need to replace all the plants killed by the extremes of weather we experienced in 2022. Garden visiting will also start again and if you have not...Read More
Photographs by Jackie Huntingford – Brush Hill, Whiteleaf Dear Members Well, we have made it to the end of our 25th Anniversary year and I hope that you enjoyed all our celebrations: the wonderful garden visits, the amazing tree walks and our fantastic lunch party at Hampden House. A big thank you to the events...Read More
What do I think of when I hear the name Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust? Happy memories stir within me of distant, dark, winter evenings spent in committee meetings at Waddesdon, grappling with ideas for talks and walks, day-conferences and publications, initiatives to involve schools, responding to research and planning issues, and much else besides. I have...Read More
Dear Bucks GT Picture a country lane west of Dunkirk, extensive marshalling yards to the west and soggy arable land and the retail park of Grand Synthe to the East. Through a car window, I spotted a parterre. The website of the nearby Ferme des Jésuites, an organic market garden specialising in leeks and micro...Read More
The Bicycle Boys: An Unforgettable Garden Tour exhibition has launched today 80 GARDENS 3 MONTHS 2 BICYCLES 1,500 MILES A new online exhibition by the RHS Linley Library https://www.rhs.org.uk/digital-collections/the-bicycle-boys Produced in partnership with the RHS Lindley Library, County Gardens Trusts and the Gardens Trust, the exhibition shares the adventure of Loyal Johnson and Sam Brewster,...Read More
