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A Short Course: Three aspects of Victorian Gardening: Pteridomania, Pineta and Parks

The Village Hall, Woolmer Green The Village Hall, Hall Lane, Woolmer Green, United Kingdom

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 […]

£36

Book launch: Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire

HALS County Hall, Hertford, United Kingdom

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 […]

£5

Explore the historic Repton landscape of Panshanger Park

Panshanger Park Hertford, United Kingdom

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 […]

A Guided Walk around the Inns of Court

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 […]

£5

Garden Visit to Suffolk

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 […]

£49

Garden Visit to Northampton and Rutland

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 […]

£52.50

A Guided Walk around the Jellicoe Water Gardens

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 […]

£5

Garden Visit to Buckinghamshire

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 […]

£49

Herts Gardens Trust AGM 2018

Thundridge House, Cold Christmas, Ware, SG12 0UF Thundridge House, Cold Christmas, Ware, United Kingdom

This year’s AGM will be held on Thursday, July 12th 2018 at Thundridge Hill House, by kind permission of Christopher and Susie Melluish. 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 and […]