Events
OGT are pleased to share the Spring lectures series for 2022.
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.
Register for each talk on EventCube: https://ogtevents.eventcube.io, or via OGT events. Cost: £4 members (inc other GTs), £5 non-members.
Some lectures will be recorded and available for one week after the lecture. Booking will close at 4 00pm on the day of the lecture.
An exciting programme of visits has been finalised and we are delighted that booking is already available for some dates. We are pleased that details of more visits will be posted in due course!
Please accept our good wishes for the season.
The OGT committee.
24 February lecture: Collingwood ‘Cherry’ Ingram and the Japanese Cherry Tree
Naoko Abe is a London-based journalist and non-fiction writer. Her first English-language book ‘Cherry’ Ingram, The Englishman Who Saved Japan’s Blossoms was published in March 2019 to critical acclaim. The book focuses on the [...]
17 March lecture: Classical motifs and garden poetry in 18th century Oxfordshire Gardens
Alley Marie Jordan speaks about classical illusions in Oxfordshire gardens including Rousham and Blenheim, the subject of her PhD in Classics from the University of Edinburgh. Zoom lecture: Thursday 17 March 2022, 5 45pm [...]
21 April lecture: From Planting Plans to Power Stations: The Landscape Institute Archive
The visionary founder members of the Landscape Institute recorded in their first constitution (c.1930) that they wanted to establish a library and a collection of lantern slides with which to inform their members and [...]
30 April: Visit to Little Peacocks, Filkins, West Oxfordshire
Hal Moggridge, OBE, will introduce Brenda Colvin’s small (half an acre) garden, the Colvin & Moggridge practice and its history with one or two drawings shown. The garden at Little Peacocks, now Colvin & [...]
21 May: Visit to the private park and gardens surrounding Faringdon House
Led by Sarah Couch, Historic Landscape Consultant. We shall see evidence of the early origins of the site, overlain with landscape features from the 18th to 20th centuries including those from the time of [...]
Garden Archaeology taster sessions with Stephen Wass
An opportunity to get out in the fresh air and get your hands dirty! Learn about research, hands on archaeology, recording and storing finds. Sessions at Enstone, Hanwell and Stowe. Contact Stephen direct for [...]