Events Search and Views Navigation
August 2021
The Folly Fellowship’s post-lockdown visit to: Chesterton and Farnborough, Warwickshire Saturday, 21 August 2021 The Windmill at Chesterton, Warwickshire [Photo: DeFacto on Wikimedia Commons] ur day will begin at 12:00 noon with a visit to Chesterton Windmill, located a few miles north of Junction 12 of the M40. Please bring a picnic and a rug or [...]
Find out more
Oxfordshire Gardens Trust have kindly extended an invitation to share their picnic day at Rousham Gardens. Some refreshments are included within the entry fee, although you are required to bring your own picnic. This promises to be a lovely day at one of the country's most spectacular gardens, as well as being a great opportunity to [...]
Find out moreSeptember 2021
Warwickshire Gardens Trust – Warmington Heritage Group A guided tour of the archaeological work undertaken by Stephen Wass of Polyalbion Archaeology at Stowe Landscape Gardens Wednesday September 15th 2021 The work carried out by Stephen for The National Trust is part of the huge NT restoration project of the parkland and its buildings that will reinstate [...]
Find out more
Oxfordshire Gardens Trust invites us to their first lecture of the autumn season when Clare Sargent will present ‘Capability Brown at Radley – Rediscovering a lost landscape’. Clare is Head of Library and Archives at Radley College. She will examine the evidence for Capability Brown’s involvement in the 18th century landscape and the attempts to reconstruct [...]
Find out moreOctober 2021
For our final trip of the season, Christine Hodgetts will guide us around Coventry's War Memorial Park. This follows on from her excellent lecture (pre-Covid). The trip is free to members but limited to 25. Booking Form
Find out moreNovember 2021
Our new president, Georgie Guernsey, has kindly invited us to hold our AGM at her home, Packington Hall, at 2:30 p.m and to tea following our annual key note lecture. We are also invited to wander the grounds from 1:30 p.m. (optional), an opportunity to see some of the works she has undertaken in the garden. [...]
Find out moreJanuary 2022
“Just an Ordinary Labourer” – such was the self-deprecating way in which by one Stoneleigh resident described himself to the census enumerator of 1871. Who were the “ordinary” estate workers of the last half of the nineteenth century, tending the lands owned by the family at the Abbey? Their home lives, as well as the work [...]
Find out moreFebruary 2022
As a last minute replacement for our cancelled trip to Hanwell, we are suggesting that members might like to enjoy the snowdrops at Evenley Wood Gardens. We will gather at 10.30 a.m outside the cafe. Admission will be payable on the day.
Find out more
March 2022
Beth Chatto. A life with Plants Beth Chatto is known as one of the great English plantswomen and a garden designer who created the iconic garden named after her in Essex, where she lived all her life. Although well known for her work on the Beth Chatto garden with its varied planting styles based on [...]
Find out more