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The Judges Choice Award For almost forty years the public have voted one of Historic House’s member gardens their favourite of the year. The award, run in conjunction with Christie’s has gone from strength to strength since then – in 2020 more votes were cast for the shortlist than ever before, and a new category...Read More
Christmas Lunch Saturday 25th November 2023, The Crown, Granborough Around 30 BGT members gathered at The Crown, Granborough for a resumption of the traditional Christmas lunch which had been on hold for a few years. It’s the sister pub of the Old Thatched Inn at Adstock which used to be our favoured venue, and the...Read More
Saturday 11th November and the first of our talks to be held at our new venue, Aylesbury’s Methodist Church Centre, proved to be very interesting. Thank you, Alison, for introducing us to the context in which Modernist architecture developed in the town. She concentrated on Amyas Connell’s High and Over in Amersham, which led the...Read More
The Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust Winter Newsletter will arrive on your door step in the next 10 days. Enclosed in the Newsletter are two Membership Interest cards for you to hand to your friends, colleagues and interested aquaintances. From the Outreach work we taken part in this year many people have never heard of the Buckinghamshire...Read More
Celebrate trees with us National Tree Week is the UK’s largest annual tree celebration. Each year, the country’s conservation sector, volunteer groups and tree-lovers come together to plant thousands of trees to mark the start of the tree planting season. The following information comes from the Tree Council https://treecouncil.org.uk/seasonal-campaigns/national-tree-week National Tree Week 2023 is taking...Read More
Don’t Dice With Ice – Winter Water Safety As colder weather begins to set in residents are reminded to stay safe in Buckinghamshires many parks this Winter. Glistening frosts and the occasional dusting of snow may look beautiful, but it’s vital to stay vigilant around cold or frozen water. When ice forms on open water,...Read More
Early in 2023 the Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust (BucksGT) reviewed its objectives and aims with Audience Engagement being a key category out of five to involve younger people through small one-off outreach activities and the Heritage Open Days New Wave scheme. The Community Champions project, iniated by Frankie Taylor of the Gardens Trust, has proved to...Read More
Advolly Richmond at Hever Castle recording of Episode 31 of ‘Gardeners World’ If you missed this recording of Advolly at Hever Castle then take some time to listen to her account of the amazing historical gardens at Hever Castle in Kent. Advolly Richmond is the presenter, and Gardeners World specialist on Garden History. About 10...Read More
It’s that time of the year again when, in most parts of the western world, shops have been stocking up on pumpkins for Halloween. David March in his blog this week for The Gardens Trust gives an insight into the history of the pumpkin. Click on the link for more detail. Read more of this...Read More
Help people in horticulture this Christmas!! On a recent trip to Herefordshire, I was fortunate to visit The Laskett the former home of Sir Roy Strong and his late wife Julia Trevelyan Oman. The garden is an artistic creation which evolved over four decades, although it is in the formal garden tradition it has elements...Read More
On Wednesday 27th September the Trust members were very priviledged to have Bekonscot, the old surviving model village in the world, completely to themselves. Many members had been before as children, then taken their children and some have taken their grandchildren but other members had never visited this time capsule of the 1930’s. We arrived...Read More
Classical motifs and garden poetry in 18th century Oxfordshire Gardens Dr Alley Marie Jordan traces the lineage of the garden grotto and its connections to wider classical motifs in poetry and myth. Drawing on her PhD in classics, she speaks on the evocation of shells, fountains, grottoes and Venus at Blenheim, Rousham and elsewhere that...Read More
