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26
Aug

Robert Marnock : Berry Hill

Robert Marnock in Buckinghamshire:    BERRY HILL Robert Marnock worked in South Buckinghamshire throughout the 1860s, the gardens he is known to have been involved with are: Hitcham House (formerly Blythewood), Berry Hill and Taplow Court. Which form a cluster to the East of the River Thames, all three sites changed hands around 1852 due to...
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05
Aug

Visit to Lindengate, Wendover Road, Aylesbury – Wednesday 12th July

If you missed this visit to a truly amazing and unique garden then put it on your bucket list. Their aim is better health and wellbeing through nature Lindengate is a community garden based next to Dobbies Garden Centre, Wendover and is an amazing ordered patchwork which actively contributes to the wellbeing and health of...
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05
Aug

Can you help? Greensand Country Landscape Partnership & Missing Pieces Project

Welcome to the Missing Pieces Project. As members know at the moment Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust has put the Research and Recording on hold after 10 years to take stock of future work, and catch up with outstanding projects. So at the moment the R & R are only undertaking urgent essential research and report or...
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04
Aug

AGM & Talks: John Nash, local artist by Joanne Mirzoeff, Historic St Dunstan’s Church by Rev. Peter Godden and an AGM

Claire de Carle welcomed  Trust members to St Dunstan’s Church, Monks Risborough for the 26th AGM of Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust on Saturday 22nd July. This was a rather unusual venue but its central location in Buckinghamshire, in the oldest recorded parish in Britain between the ancient roads of the Upper Icknield and Lower Icknield Way...
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08
Jul

Chesham Cemetery “positive feedback for Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust Cemetery…”

  Chesham Cemetery  is now a Non-designated Heritage Asset (NDHA) During the covid lock-down the Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust researchers, led by Dr Sarah Rutherford, continued to produce reports on public parks and cemeteries  in the historic county as they were accessible. This recent article, printed in the local free monthly publication”Your Chesham” features a report...
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29
Jun

Discovering the Gardens of Mallorca – Claire de Carle

Discovering the Gardens of Mallorca I recently had the opportunity to visit a wide variety of gardens on the island of Mallorca. It was a two-centre holiday with two nights in the capital Palma and the rest of the week in the lovely resort of Port de Soller on the mountainous north side of the...
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17
Jun

Marnock in Bucks

Marnock in Bucks. This is an extract from the Marnock in Bucks research for the Sheffield Botanical Garden and Garden Trust joint project, which is now available at this link https://www.sbg.org.uk/celebrating-marnock/marnock-in-bucks Reports on Hitcham and Berry Hill  (work in progress on Taplow Ct) will be published shortly.   Commissions The Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust has taken...
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13
Jun

Triceratops at Peartree Bridge

      Press Release:  7th June 2023 ROAR-SOME NEW DESIGN FOR ICONIC PUBLIC ARTWORK The Parks Trust has officially unveiled the stunning new design that now graces MK’s much-loved Triceratops at Peartree Bridge. Earlier this year, the charity launched a competition to find a budding local designer who could create a new ‘skin’ for...
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02
Jun

Munstead Wood private sale to National Trust

Press release Home and garden of pioneering garden designer and writer, Gertrude Jekyll, acquired for the nation Published:01 June 2023 Gertrude Jekyll’s house and garden at Munstead Wood | © National Trust Images/Megan Taylor The National Trust has announced the purchase of Munstead Wood, the internationally important Surrey home and garden of influential plantswoman, designer...
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20
May

Garden History Lucky Dip event at Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens

Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust has taken up The Gardens Trust (GT) challenge of sharing garden history stories with new audiences and helping to promote the importance and wonder of historic spaces with more members of the public. Louise Keil and I ticked and completed the GT online course and received a box of of goodies to...
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