Events
Our new year programme has got off to a good start and we do hope you will enjoy the rest of the 2025 programme and we look forward to meeting you at the venues and seeing you online. Most of the garden visits have already sold out but if you would like to be added to a waiting list please contact felix.lam45@gmail.com
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
Visit: 11 June, Asthall Manor Garden, nr. Burford, OX18 4HW SOLD OUT
Visit to Asthall Manor Garden, an intriguing place where the Mitford sisters lived from 1919–26 – a Jacobean manor house surrounded by a garden, woodland and meadows that blend into the glorious Windrush valley landscape [...]
Visit: 9 July, Bruern Abbey Gardens, Bruern, OX7 6QA SOLD OUT
This visit provides a unique opportunity to view an awe-inspiring garden, combining ecclesiastical symmetry with informal planting, which is rarely open to the public. The garden was re-designed by the well-known garden designer, Angel Collins, [...]
Visit: 19 July Nuneham Courtenay house and gardens (Global Retreat Centre), OX44 9PG
Join us for a rare visit to Nuneham Courtenay house and garden, by kind permission of the Global Retreat Centre. We will have the opportunity to tour some of the principal rooms of the house [...]
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 [...]
Events and lectures from other Gardens Trusts for Spring2025
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 [...]
Events, lectures and news from other organisations for Spring 2025
IHR History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes Seminars - Spring/ Summer Term 2025 The History of Gardens and Landscapes Seminar provides a forum for historians and researchers, artists, practioners and interested members of the public [...]