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, […]
A Short Course of six sessions to be led by Kate Harwood Three aspects of Victorian Gardening: Pteridomania, the Fern Craze, swept Victorian England. It stimulated plant collecting, technological advances and added new features to homes and gardens. Pineta, and their close cousins, arboreta were the product of the mania for exotic trees. Driven by […]
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 […]
HGT members and friends are invited to explore the historic Repton landscape of Panshanger Park in the company of Anne Rowe and Kate Harwood. The start point will be the Panshanger stables at TL290 133, off the B1000 between Hertford and Digswell where we have permission to park. Free, no need to book. If you […]
Meet at 11.45am at Farringdon Station Please bring a packed lunch Walk to be led by Deborah Spring Using a 16th century map of the area, we will explore the origins of the gardens of the Inns of Court: Gray’s Inn, Lincoln’s Inn, Middle Temple and Inner Temple. These secluded and spacious gardens, hidden from […]
Coffee and cake will be served on arrival at Fullers Mill, West Stow. This enchanting 7 acre garden, created over 50 years by its owner, Bernard Tickner, is managed today by Perennial - The Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Society. The garden is situated on the banks of the River Lark and comprises woodland and a plantsman’s […]
Meet at 2.00pm at The Old Fighting Cocks Inn Walk to be led by Sally Pearson This walk will require imagination! Very little remains of the mediaeval monastery buildings in St Albans, let alone the garden areas which we know lay between them. But, as with other historic landscapes, by walking the ground, and hearing […]
Our first visit is to Deene Park in Northamptonshire, the home since 1514 of the Brudenell family, whose most famous member was the 7th Earl of Cardigan, who led the Charge of the Light Brigade. The contents and furnishings of Deene Park are exceptionally interesting, so after coffee we start the day with a private […]
Meet at 10.30am at the Jellicoe Water Gardens, Hemel Hempstead Walk to be led by Kate Harwood This walk will take in the restored Water Gardens designed by Geoffrey Jellicoe as the centrepiece of Hemel Hempstead new town. The influences behind its final shape, the changes in the design and concept, the dereliction into which […]
Our first visit will be Hillesden House, the home of Mr and Mrs Faccenda. With five acres of formal gardens and eighty acres of deer park, there is room for carp lakes, fountains and waterfalls, in addition to rose, alpine and herbaceous borders. Coffee/Tea will be taken on arrival. After lunch at The Old Thatched […]