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· Members can book a ticket for themselves & up to 2 tickets for non-members/guests
· Price of tickets: we operate a price differentiation with guests paying 25% more
· Cancellations – full refund if BGT cancel
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· Cancellations of less than a week will be noted but refunds at discretion of the Event Organiser
· No refunds will be given on day of the event or retrospectively.
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The Plant Heritage winter Zoom talks for 2024 are available to book now. These are free to members of Plant Heritage - just register now to join. Non-members can join for a ticket of £5. Thur 11 Jan 6.30pm 'Woody plants that should be better known and grown' by Jack Aldridge Thur 25 Jan 6.30pm 'You spent how much?…living with a galanthophile' by Helen Rushton, National Collection Holder in Aberdeenshire Sat 10th Feb 2.30pm 'The Social History of…
Find out more »Events Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885-6, Tate Britain, London New Online Talks Starting Next Week We’ve just launched a pair of online talks on Two 19th Century Gardening Pioneers. The first, on Scottish landscape gardener Robert Marnock, will be on Tuesday 16th January and the second the following week on George Glenny and the Gardening Press. These replace the postponed series on Queer Gardens, which we hope to rearrange later in the year. Tuesdays, 16 & 23 January, 10am. Tickets: £14 for both or…
Find out more »Wednesday 17th January 2024 8pm Hedgerley Memorial Hall Lesser known Grand Houses in South Bucks – Mike Dewey What have a heart-throb film star, an apothecary to royalty, a British Army General, and a Minister in a Labour government got in common - they all feature in our talk on January 17 by Mike Dewey. For his talk 'The Lesser Known Grand Houses of South Bucks and Their Occupants' Mike will select three historic mansions and tell us about the…
Find out more »BERKSHIRE GARDEN TRUST’S January 2024 ZOOM LECTURE Monday 22nd January 2024 @ 19.00 Flowers and Gardens in Historic Portraits Talk by Anne Haworth an independent scholar and historian with extensive experience as a lecturer in art history. We are very pleased to welcome Anne Haworth, who delivered three popular lectures last year for The Garden Trust series Paradise on Porcelain. Anne has worked for more than two decades within some of the world’s greatest museums and most prestigious collections of…
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Puzzle Pictures This talk looks at a series of paintings from the 16th to 18th centuries which feature gardens, and helps the audience see beyond the obvious. Are the pictures useful evidence for the history gardens? Are they “accurate” depictions? What else might they be telling us? It might sound a bit heavy but it’s intended to intrigue the audience and make them think why the painting was made, and understand a bit more of the mind-set of the period,…
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By courtesy of RHS Collections up Close Visit Visit to the RHS Lindley Library The Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library is in the beautiful Edwardian headquarters of the Royal Horticultural Society at 80 Vincent Square, London SW1P 2PE. The Society has had a library for more than 200 years and their collections reflect this longstanding passion for gardens and garden plants. Today the collections are a treasure trove for anyone interested in learning more about the history and art of…
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Plants, Medicine and Magic Sue Burge , former Director of Clinical Studies at Oxford University and retired consultant dermatologist, briefly reviews the history of herbal medicine, discusses some of the plants that underpin modern medicines and throws in a little magic for good measure. Thursday 8th February, via zoom 6 00pm Ticket - £4 for members of any GT, this includes Bucks GT - £5 for guests Booking https://ogtevents.eventcube.io/
Find out more »Garden Museum Talk: Tuesday 6th February: The Lost Gardens of London by Todd Longstaffe Gowan Tickets for in person, on line access see below. https://gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/talk-todd-longstaffe-gowan-the-lost-gardens-of-london/
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A Concise History of our Great British Parks This talk gives a really fascinating insight into the history of one of our greatest ever institutions - our great British public park. We have all enjoyed them at some time in our lives but what do we really know about them? their origins? did they really start in the Victorian period or do they go even further back? This talk illustrates their origins, talks about the need for parks, the Victorian…
Find out more »Our next talk is on 14 March and is entitled “Brenda Colvin and the Women of the Welfare Landscape”. Professor Csepely-Knorr will discuss the work and legacy of women landscape architects and garden designers working in the post-war period in Britain and beyond. By looking at the networks of Brenda Colvin (1897-1981) the first woman to be elected president of the Institute of Landscape Architects, Professor Csepely-Knorr will highlight the impact she and a wider network of women had as…
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Francesca Murray is a gardener and garden history enthusiast. She is currently studying for a PhD at Queen Mary University of London on Nineteenth-century gardeners, nurserymen, and the associations that came to their aid. She has a Masters in Garden History from the University of Buckingham and is a contributor of garden history articles and guest speaker for Perennial, the modern day Gardener’s Royal Benevolent institution, and a trustee of the Gardens Trust. She has co-written a history of Exbury Gardens with Lionel de…
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