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
Ticketsource – Say Goodbye to Service Fees on Phone Bookings! Free Telephone Box Office Service Great news – from 30th March 2024, when customers book their tickets over the phone with Ticketsource, they won’t have to pay any extra service fees. They pay exactly the same as someone booking online! Now is the perfect time...Read More
The Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust – photographs of Gardeners’ Network – CdC Gardeners’ Network Update – visit to Claydon The Bucks GT Gardeners’ Network (GN) was started in October 2022 (with advise from Bedfordshire GT who have run a successful GN for 9 years) with the inaugural meeting hosted by Barry Smith, Head Gardener(HG) at Stowe,...Read More
Gardens Trust Volunteer Award 2024 nominations now open We’d like to invite you to submit nominations for our annual Volunteer Award, intended to celebrate and showcase volunteers and the invaluable contribution they make each year. County Gardens Trust volunteers are incredibly impressive and are absolutely essential to the work of the historic designed landscapes sector...Read More
March and April is brightened up by the yellow trumpets of daffodils on roadsides and in parks but these are generally the planted or escaped garden varieties. Spotting a Wild daffodil, especially in Buckinghamshire, in the shade of an ancient woodland, or pushing up through the grasses of a damp meadow is becoming rare as...Read More
The Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institute a talk by Francesca Murray Thirty plus members of Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust and their guests enjoyed a most informative talk last Saturday by one of our members, Francesca Murray. The talk was inspired by her current research for a PhD at Queen Mary University, London, on Nineteenth-century gardeners, nurserymen, and...Read More
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust has for a number of years supported International Women’s Day. In 2022 we featured Forgotten Buckinghamshire Women in Gardening: Margaret Ursula Mee ( 1909-1988), Alice de Rothschild (1847-1922) and Kay Naylor Sanecki (1922-2005). In 2023 it was Women Head Gardeners in Buckinghamshire: Franzi Cheeseman at Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens, Jackie Hunt at...Read More
On Tuesday 6th February a group of Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust members met at the Royal Horticulture Society to have a tour of the historical archive collection that is held by the Linley Library having negotiated the challenging train service! We were able to view a large range of archives including an amazing photographic record of...Read More
New Research Symposium The Garden’s Trust New Research Symposium is an annual opportunity to share new and unpublished interdisciplinary research relating to garden history. It is open to all researchers and scholars, regardless of whether they are attached to an academic institution, and we welcome submissions from international scholars as well as those based in...Read More
Jacob, 4th Baron Rothschild 1936 – 2024 The Trust was saddened to hear of the death of Lord Rothschild aged 87, whose financial acumen, philanthropic sensibility, unstinting support for culture and the arts made him an eminent figure in British life. He was Chairman of Trustees of the National Gallery from 1985 and 1991 and...Read More
