Course at Department of Continuing Education Oxford

New Perspectives on Botanical Gardens

Friday 31st May to Sunday 2nd June

Further information and details here

Overview
Organised in partnership with The Gardens Trust.

This weekend will seek to explore and debate the contribution of botanical gardens to research, education, conservation, well-being and commerce from the 17th century to the present day.

New scholarship will be presented to illuminate the involvement of designers, plant hunters, gardeners, scientists, artists, governments and local communities – and to tell the forgotten stories of those who suffered as plants became commodities in global trade.

The weekend will include tours of the Oxford Botanic Garden (the oldest such garden in the country).

 

Compton Verney exhibition Landscape and Imagination

21st March – 16th June 2024

This exhibition will explores the relationship between art, gardens and landscape through a beautiful array of paintings, drawings and sculpture from across the country. Featuring paintings by Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and JMW Turner, plans by some of the greatest garden designers in history, such as Capability Brown, as well as contemporary works by Anya Gallaccio and Ian Hamilton Finlay, this exhibition will allow you to consider the enduring relationship between art and landscape up to the present day and beyond.

Further information here

 

Newsletter of Oxfordshire Gardens Open By Arrangement in 2024
As part of our effort to increase awareness of the wealth of gardens in Oxfordshire that are open under the National Garden Scheme we have produced a Newsletter featuring all the gardens that are open “By Appointment” to groups of visitors. There are 33 gardens in all with openings spread over most of the year. The Newsletter for 2024 is contained in a PDF file which contains a photograph and a brief synopsis of each Oxfordshire garden that is open for booking “by arrangement” this year. Each entry has a link back to the Find-a-Garden entry on the NGS website.
  • You can access the Newsletter by clicking on the Download button.
  • You can then save the file for your use locally.
  • We would love it if you would share this information with others

The Alpine Garden Society has a programme of events, zoom lectures, seed exchanges and regional groups

The Cottage Garden Society has a North Oxford Group

The Oxford Botanic Garden runs a series of lectures all through the year.

The Oxford Special Interest Group The Oxfordshire Flora Group specialising in plant identification meetings

Oxford College of Garden Design