New trail: explore the legacy of Campbell Park To celebrate more than 40 years of Campbell Park, The Parks Trust in partnership with Living Archive have created a new trail for visitors to discover more about the city’s central park. Supported by funding from MK City Council and MK Community Foundation, the trail includes special...Read More
The Parks Trust brand-new What’s On Guide 2025 is out now! 2025 is shaping up to be another exciting and busy year across Milton Keynes’ green spaces! The Parks Trust’s brand-new 2025 guide to what’s happening in the parks this year will be available in early February and you can pick up your copy from...Read More
BERKSHIRE GARDEN TRUST’S March & April 2025 ZOOM LECTURES If you are interested please follow the link and book , Bucks GT are charged at members price. Compton Elms on 11 March – see https://www.berkshiregardenstrust.org/march-visit-to-compton-elms for booking And St Timothee on 3 April – see https://www.berkshiregardenstrust.org/spring-visit-to-st-timothee for booking The third one to Windsor Castle...Read More
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 secluded site....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 and near Buckinghamshire 2025 It’s snowdrop time and February is the month for Galanthus nivalis, as the most common species is officially known. So, get on your walking shoes, wrap up warm and treat yourself to the wonderful sight of sweeps of snowdrops covering the parklands, woodland, churchyards and gardens of Buckinghamshire....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
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
