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Campbell Park turns 40! Campbell Park in the heart of the city turns 40 on 4th May 2024, and to celebrate this milestone birthday The Parks Trust have rounded up 40 facts about the city’s central park! Discover more about the public art located in this 100-acre park, be surprised at the famous faces...Read More
Our outreach activities are extremely important as we need to recruit new members and inform the wider public about our work to protect parks and gardens. We already have several events planned across the county this summer and would very much like members to volunteer for a few hours to staff our stand and chat...Read More
Charles Bridgeman (1690-1738) Pioneer of the Naturalistic Landscape May 18th 2024 10am – 5pm. Hastoe Village Hall, Tring, Herts Despite being a popular designer in the early 18th century, Bridgeman’s place in garden history and many of his landscapes remained neglected over time. Although not so well-known as his illustrious successors, Capability Brown and...Read More
Date: Saturday May 18th 2024, 2pm Venue: Stony Stratford Library An Almost Impossible Thing follows the fortunes of six women gardeners in the years before the First World War, including their battles to change expectations of what women gardeners could do. It examines their lives in the context of suffragism, collectivism and Empire....Read More
Bluebell time in the ancient woodlands of Buckinghamshire. Bluebells are a good indicator of ancient woodland and fortunately, we still have a number of those in Buckinghamshire especially in the Chilterns. Many of the sites we mention below have links so you have more information and ideas for walks. Now there is a slight improvement...Read More
County Archives Relocation You may have seen this recent report on the BBC website about the potential relocation of the County’s Archives in Aylesbury to the Tesco site in the Eden Centre in High Wycombe. For those to the north of the county this would make access challenging. Milton Keynes, as the article indicates would...Read More
Online Events Early Gardens is the first in our six series of talks on A History of Gardens. We’ll be looking at themes and styles from the ancient world through to the Elizabethan era. Completing all six series will provide a thorough grounding in garden history – or you can sign up for individual sessions that...Read More
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
