Other Events

Friends of Townhill Park Gardens

Sunday March 11th at 2.30 p.m. the Townhill Park House Gardens Open Day. Entry to the gardens is free and there is a free talk being given by Jane Balfour, Hampshire-based expert on Gertrude Jekyll, entitled “Gertrude Jekyll and her Gardens. More on the Friends of Townhill park can be found on the HGT website and The Gregg School Southampton.

Broadlands: a country house in Hampshire.

This exhibition looks at the country house, its contents and context, through the Hampshire property, mainly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when these establishments were at the height of their importance. Vignettes of daily life are drawn from family correspondence and the records of domestic service, horticulture and farming.

The Garden History Society

London Winter Lectures on the theme of ‘internationalism’ to mark the year of the London Olympics

The Association of Gardens Trusts

Training programme, to help volunteers with a practical approach to planning issues .

22 February – Understanding Conservation Management Plans – Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row, nr East Grinstead

14 March – Understanding Conservation Management Plans – Denham/Langley Parks, nr Slough

21 March – Responding to Planning Applications affecting historic designed landscapes – Waterloo, London

The Association of Gardens Trusts, Yorkshire Gardens Trust and The national Trust in association with The Garden History Lecture Society.

Research and Recording Study Day. Studley Royal, North Yorkshire.

Historic Vistas, Current Perspectives, Future Prospects. Thursday 3rd May 2012, 9.45-4.30.