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Next Zoom Lecture – Monday 15th November, 6pm
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 – Coming up on Monday 6th September
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...
Garden Plans for Schools – Oliver’s Battery School, Winchester has opening ceremony for its new Edible Playground
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...
Gilbert White’s 301st Birthday Party
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 ...
HGT Pays Tribute to Sylvia Landsberg
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...
Zoom Lecture – The English Landscape Revolution by Kim Wilkie – Monday 5th July at 6pm
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...
Alan Titchmarsh becomes the new President of Hampshire Gardens Trust
Alan & Gilly pictured here at Winchester's Water Close Garden Hampshire Gardens Trust is delighted to announce that Alan Titchmarsh MBE, has become its new President, taking over from Gilly Drummond OBE, who has been President since 2010. The Hampshire Gardens...
Zoom Lecture – ‘The Renaissance Gardens of Florence and Fiesole’ by Jane Balfour
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...
Zoom Lecture – From the Nile to the Itchen: Serapis in a Winchester water garden – by Dr John Pearce
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...
Zoom Lecture – Gertrude Jekyll – ‘My Adventure in Restoring her Inspiring Garden Art’ by Rosamund Wallinger
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...
Zoom Lecture – Humphry Repton at Herriard Park by Sally Miller
Monday 15th March, 6pm - E.Ticket £5 Herriard Park lies between Basingstoke and Alton in Hampshire and has been owned by the Jervoise family since the beginning of the 17th century. In 1792 George Purefoy Jervoise inherited the estate and immediately began to...
Petersfield Physic Garden Zoom Lecture by Jenny Hill
Jenny Hill Zoom Lecture - Petersfield Physic Garden - Monday 15th February, starting at 6pm, e-ticket £5 Jenny Hill is the Garden Manager of the Petersfield Physic Garden and has been a volunteer working in the garden for the past 15 years. The Petersfield Physic...