Events and lectures from other Gardens Trusts for Autumn 2025

Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust

New Venue: Aylesbury Methodist Church & Centre – .Buckingham Street, Aylesbury HP20 2NQ. Parking: front of the venue limited & Coopers Yard car park next door. The venue has excellent facilities including lift to first floor and wheelchair access. It is near the centre of the town with a choice of restaurants and cafes, including The Kings Head, a C15 coaching inn owned by the National Trust Inn.

Booking: Tickets from http://ticketsource.co.uk//buckinghamshire-gardens-trust or turn up on the day & pay by cash, card or cheque. Doors open 2.00 pm Members £10.00, Guests £12.50. Includes refreshments.

2025 Lectures and Visits

Talk: 18th October, 2 30pm – 5 00 pm John Adams and Thomas Jefferson’s Tour of English Gardens 1786 presented by Julian Hunt.

Talk: 10th January 2026 2 30pm – 5 00pm Small but perfectly formed: A history of Entrance Lodges presented by Dr Victoria Thomson

The Gardens Trust

This month, our online talks programme kicks off again after its summer break. We have two new series to enjoy:

Accessing the Archives – William Andrews Nesfield, presented in partnership with the Garden Museum, celebrates the Museum’s acquisition of the archives of this eminent 19th century landscape designer. Four talks, rich with archive material, will explore some of Nesfield’s most important commissions across the country. The series will conclude with a roundtable discussion reconsidering his importance and relevance today. Five Tuesday mornings from 16 September.

Yorkshire’s Designed Landscapes – A Miscellany, presented in partnership with Yorkshire Gardens Trust, explores a variety of less common types of designed landscapes across the county, examining nursery plantations, town memorials, an artificial hill and a Picturesque valley as seen by authors and artists. Four Wednesday evenings from 17 September.

Throughout September we’re also offering a rerun of our introductory History of Gardens (3) series on 18th-century gardens. Described by an audience member as ‘well prepared excellent lectures with a wealth of illustrations’ when the series first ran a year ago, access to all five recordings is available until the end of the month. The talks are a useful introduction to the themes and ideas explored in our new series Building the 18th Century Garden, which starts in October.

In-Person in October

Join us for a special London lecture on Botanical Prints in the Royal Collection. Kate Heard, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Royal Collection Trust, will explore the Royal Collection’s remarkable group of flower drawings, spanning the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. Highlights include works by Leonardo da Vinci, Alexander Marshal, and Maria Sibylla Merian. Tuesday evening 28 October. This talk also serves as a perfect introduction to our members-only November visit to Windsor Castle’s Print Room.

Please click The Gardens Trust to see all up and coming talks and events