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The vandals have been back to Hyde Abbey Garden – this time to destroy the remaining original wooden bench in the garden, designed by Kim Wilkie to represent the nave of the ancient Hyde Abbey which once stood there. Not content with already having destroyed one of...

 Talk Title:  Lady Harriett’s Ferme Ornée: The Gardening Garniers of Rookesbury, Hampshire  From serpentine paths to tree-lined rides, the Garnier family adapted the landscape of their estate at Rookesbury, Wickham to follow current trends. With publication of the...

Three generations of the Armstrong family of Hampshire - A nursery with links to Repton and Jane Austen, and a plant hunter in Australia Hampshire Gardens Trust research group is currently working on a project to locate and record the historic plant nurseries and...

 Zoom Lecture 'Glass and Eye Too' by Tracey Sheppard Monday 6th September, 6pm, E.Ticket £5 'Glass and eye too’ will encompass the seed which, when planted, grew into a Glass Engraver, the abundant growth and flowering of a career. It will illustrate and explain...

Hampshire Gardens Trust is delighted to announce the launch of its new ‘Garden Plans for Schools’ project which aims to inspire young people to take a closer interest in their surroundings by giving them an opportunity to become directly involved with growing...

You are invited to celebrate Gilbert White’s 300th birthday a year late! A free day of fun activities, stall and live performance all in celebration of Gilbert White! Open 10:30-17:00 Pre-booking recommended but not essential For more information click here  ...

Sylvia Landsberg1928-2021 Sylvia Landsberg died peacefully on 9 June 2021 at the age of 93. She was known internationally as a renowned designer and historian of gardens. But more locally – as a mother, wife, sister, aunt, neighbour and friend – we remember her for...

  The English landscape, farming and gardening have always been interwoven in practical and productive good sense. This developed boldly and rapidly at the beginning of the eighteenth century when English ideas about landscape broke away dramatically from the...

Our next zoom lecture by Jane Balfour 'The Renaissance Gardens of Florence and Fiesole' takes place on Monday 7th June at 6pm Why should such a topic be of relevance to Hampshire Gardens Trust? This talk will reveal how despite the passing of 5 centuries, the c19th...

Our next zoom lecture by Dr John Pearce entitled 'From the Nile to the Itchen: Serapis in a Winchester water garden' takes place on Monday 10th May at 6pm. The Water Close Garden in central Winchester was created in the 1950s by Sir Peter Smithers to give pleasure to...

  Monday 12th April, 6pm - E.Ticket £5 When Rosamund Wallinger moved into a derelict Manor at Upton Grey in Hampshire, she uncovered a Jekyll garden and set about restoring it. Rosamund came to Upton Grey from London in 1984, to the derelict house and garden that...