Past Events

Imbued with Chinese philosophy of long life and health, the chrysanthemum brings colour and exoticism beloved by artists and gardeners. This talk incorporates culture and myth, artworks and design, with an overview of the development of the chrysanthemum. Twigs Way is a garden historian, writer and researcher. Twigs is fascinated by the past and intrigued by [...]

Britain is a good place for earth works. The climate, the soils and the topography encourage people to go out and build turf-castles. Since the pre-historic Avebury Ring and the chalk sculpture of the White Horse in Wiltshire, there has been a tradition in the British Isles of sculpting the land into sensuous forms, held firm [...]

Stephen Wass was commissioned by the National Trust to review the gardens and park at Baddesley Clinton in the light of new LIDAR images they had commissioned. During the course of the this work several new sites were discovered and the whole history of the gardens rewritten. The talk will provide an overview of the images [...]

Baddesley Clinton April 19th at 10.30   Baddesley Clinton is well known as a moated Manor House whose origins may date back as far as the thirteenth century and was the home of the Ferrers family for some 500 years. The house was saved from ruin by Thomas Walker, who bought the estate in 1940. The [...]

Castle Bromwich Historic Gardens May 18th at 11.00 Castle Bromwich Gardens are an almost unique survival of an Eighteenth Century garden, once part of the Earl of Bradford’s Estate. The gardens were developed by several generations of the Bridgeman family for a period of some 40 years from 1685 onwards. Remarkably, the layout survived the Nineteenth [...]

Visit to Kelmarsh Hall & Gardens June 14th Coach departure at 09.15 Kelmarsh Hall and the surrounding estate were the home of the Hanbury family from 1620 to 1860s. The present hall is the work of architect James Gibbs, who designed the house in the 1720s as a central hall with two symmetrical pavilions connected to [...]

Admington Hall Gardens   The private Pleasure Gardens at Admington Hall lie near the house to the south of the village of Admington.  The park and gardens have been developed in recent years by Mark and Antonia Davies with advice in the early days from the garden designer Mary Keen. Our visit will begin with an [...]

Guy’s Cliffe Gardens and Grounds LATEST NEWS We are pleased to announce that in addition to our main visit to Guy’s Cliffe House and Garden we have arranged a private view of Guy’s Well and Fir Avenue (once part of the Guy’s Cliffe Estate). We will meet at the carpark of the Saxon Mill restaurant on [...]