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Although all the garden visits for the year are now concluded we are pleased to announce the date of the

AGM plus social meeting

19 September at 6pm, at St Hugh’s Centre, Woodstock.

Following the formal, customary brief AGM, we will have a talk by the Head Gardener at Estelle Manor, the former Eynsham Hall – now a private club hotel and not open to the public or even groups such as OGT. Anton Blackie will give a talk on ‘Horticulture in Hospitality’ where he will talk about the highs and lows of working in Hospitality with a horticultural focus. From estates open to the public to hotels, how the public and colleagues react and understand the role of horticulture and how we can play the game too! It should be very entertaining, as well as being ‘live’.

The AGM papers will be distributed three weeks before the meeting and we warmly welcome you all, including those of you who have been asking for in person meetings. Booking will be available in due course.

Autumn Lectures

All lectures are online. Zoom links will be sent a few days before each lecture takes place; please enter the zoom ‘room’ by 5. 45pm, for lecture commencement at 6pm.

Registration for each talk will be EventCube: https://ogtevents.eventcube.io, or via OGT events page. Cost: £4 members (inc other GTs), £5 non-members.

Most lectures will be recorded and available for one week after the lecture. Normally booking will close at 3 00pm on the day of the lecture.

The OGT committee

AGM, social event and talk, 19th September 2025

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Online talk: 16 October, Cornard Wood to Fangorn Forest: British Trees in Art and Literature, 6 00pm

Trees have always caught the human imagination and nowhere more powerfully than in Britain. We descend from tree-worshippers, and that sense of the sacred has always remained to make trees, and especially forests, at once alluring [...]

Online talk: 13 November, ‘One of the most Beautiful Landscapes in the World’: Nuneham Courtenay Gardens, House and Village.

The talk will explore the significance and beauty of the estate in the creative hands of successive members of the Harcourt family over the last three centuries during which it attracted poets, artists, statesmen and [...]