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Enrich the List has a new name. Welcome to the Missing Pieces Project. Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust, with the expertise of Clare Butler, a member, has supported English Heritage listed places for a number of years by adding the research reports/dossiers and photographs to the List each year. Today (Thursday 11 May) Historic England launched...Read More
Blossom Week was celebrated by Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust with a walk at Batsford Arboretum, Moreton in Marsh led by Michael Hunt. The Japanese cherries were out in full bloom and the rain stayed away. Batsford Arboretum is open to the public and details can be found on their website www.batsarb.co.uk Read More
Wisteria & Azalea Walk Wednesday, 10th May, 10am A guided walk through our beautiful gardens with the Head Gardener. The Big Help Out Thursday, 11th May, 11-15.00 Will you join us? We’ll be meeting at the Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens on Thursday, 11th May from 11.00 to 15.00 and help...Read More
Georgian Arcadia: Architecture for the Park & Garden -Roger White Roger White is one of the leading authorities on Georgian Landscape architecture and his recently published new book includes a fascinating selection of garden architecture in Buckinghamshire as shown in the gallery below. The Telegraphs review of this “magnificent book” https://books.telegraph.co.uk/Product/Roger-White/Georgian-Arcadia–Architecture-for-the-Park-and-Garden/26875325 Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust members...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
FORTHCOMING EVENTS LIST See The Gardens Trust website for further information and booking https://thegardenstrust.org/events/ Wednesday, 7 June 2023, 6-7pm. London Talk: Neighbours of the more famous Lord Burlington: The walled gardens of Sir Stephen Fox (1627-1716) and Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1674-1743) at Chiswick. A talk by Sally Jeffery at The Gallery,...Read More
Clare Butler and John O’Dwyer have been out in search for spring flowers in Evenley Wood and have found the elusive British wild daffodil but it is in Northants, just over the Buckinghamshire border. Here are some of John’s photos from Evenley Wood. A lot of daffs not out yet but here are some Lent...Read More
Nationally and locally important sites an explanation There are a total of 46 nationally important sites in Buckinghamshire, Grade I (6), Grade II* (11), and Grade II (29) these are all included on the Historic England Register of Parks & Gardens. They are therefore not being considered for inclusion on the Buckinghamshire Council Local Heritage...Read More
Pamela Lambourne, a Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust member and researcher, has been out early this morning ( Friday 17th March ) to photograph the unique “stream” of daffodils wending its way through the woods and round the church of St. Thomas. Here are some photos of daffodils taken this morning in the village in MK where...Read More
21st Century Women Gardeners Franzi Cheeseman MHort (RHS) CHort Head Gardener of The Stoke Poges Memorial Garden I was lucky enough to grow up in central Switzerland in a small town near Lake Lucerne. From age five I knew that I wanted to be a gardener. We didn’t have a garden as...Read More
Spring has arrived and with it the wonderful displays of spring flowers. These are a small list of places you can visit. Please check opening times. Snowdrop walks in Buckinghamshire Stowe Landscape Gardens. Not only is the site itself a brilliant day out, the snowdrop walk is beautiful too! Cliveden, near Taplow is another top...Read More
Winter & Spring Flowering Shrubs and Trees It is starting to warm up and the days are definitely lengthening. Michael Hunt, our tree guru, has been out with his camera hunting down examples of “witch hazel” including Hamamelis X Intermedia “Glowing Embers” Michael’s research shows that the hamamelis, witch hazel originated from three species found...Read More
