Hertfordshire Gardens Trust

Further details and a programme for this event may be found in the 2017 Spring Newsletter.

‘Ulting Wick’, Maldon, Essex: Coffee and biscuits will be taken before we view this beautiful, spring garden especially significant for tulip lovers. The colourful arrangements stand out from a backdrop of listed, black barns. There are 8 acres of innovative plantings, plus a pond overhung with golden weeping willow trees. ’The English Garden’ magazine listed […]

A short history of the project to restore the Jellicoe Water Gardens and a presentation by the Friends will be followed by a tour of the newly restored and refurbished Water Gardens.

‘The Old Vicarage’, Whissendine: We head north to Whissendine, Rutland, where after coffee and biscuits in the historic church we visit The Old Vicarage, where Dr. Sarah Furness has filled her garden with unusual plants, shrubs and topiary. We will see the herbaceous borders, the rose covered pergola, the hidden white walk, the terrace designed […]

Sonja has used her wide experience to plan an ambitious programme of garden visits, based on two nights at the splendidly situated 4* Blakeney Hotel at Blakeney on the north Norfolk coast.  The cost of a coach and driver would be prohibitive, and Sonja suggests using our own cars, doubling up where appropriate.  The cost […]

This year’s AGM will be held on Thursday, 13th July, 2017 at ‘Garratt’s Farm’, Benington, by kind permission of Mrs Sarah Bott. The garden will be open from 6.00pm when a glass of wine will be served. The meeting will start at 7.00pm and members are invited to stay for picnics — please bring tables […]

Margie Hoffnung is the Conservation Officer with the Gardens Trust. As a horticultural student at Writtle College, Margie was given a work placement with Rosemary Verey and following qualification continued to work for her on a part-time basis until Verey’s death in 2001. Margie’s friendship with Rosemary Verey and her close association with Verey’s professional […]

Please note that this event is now fully booked. Anne Rowe is a landscape historian and co-ordinates the research work of the HGT. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Humphry Repton in 1818, Anne and a team of HGT researchers have reviewed every site with which Humphry Repton was associated in Hertfordshire, […]

The book launch for ‘Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire’ featuring a talk by Professor Tom Williamson. This is an opportunity to meet the authors, to see the Red Books owned by Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, and to purchase copies of the book, which will be on sale at the RRP of £25 Tickets at £5 […]