Thursday 16 October 2025The Gibberd Garden, Marsh Lane, Harlow, CM17 0NAThis event has now passed The man: knighted in 1967, Sir Frederick Gibberd was an architect, town planner and landscape architect, with a distinguished project record that included Liverpool Catholic Cathedral, Heathrow Airport terminals 1, 2 and 3, the Central Mosque in Regents Park andContinue reading “Visit to The Gibberd Garden”
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Visit to King’s College & Corpus Christi
Tuesday 5 August 2025 at King’s College and Corpus Christi, LeckhamptonVisits start at 11:00am and 2:30pm The visits: After our 2024 Christmas Lecture, Steve Coghill, Kings College Head Gardener, kindly offered to show us the college gardens in the summer. He has proposed 5th August for the visit, as there will be a team ofContinue reading “Visit to King’s College & Corpus Christi”
Visit to Bourn Mill and Garden Tours
Thursday 19 June 2025 at The Mill Cottage, Caxton Road, Bourn CB23 2SUThis event has now passed. Kate Armstrong writes: we took over the garden of around an acre of established shrubs and herbaceous borders, set in lawns. Over time, we enlarged and extended the beds introducing interesting plants from our travels around the country.Continue reading “Visit to Bourn Mill and Garden Tours”
Visit to Holywell Hall Park
Wednesday 21 May 2025 at Holywell, Stamford PE9 4DTThis event has now passed. The gardens: Holywell Hall park and gardens (of about 36 ha) were laid out in the 1760s within a shallow, secluded valley in a landscape style, complementing the Grade II* house. Horticultural records for the estate cover about 70 years from 1760Continue reading “Visit to Holywell Hall Park”
Visit to Impington Mill Garden
Monday 7 April 2025 at 10, Cambridge Road, Impington CB24 9NU This event has now passed. Pippa writes: we took on the garden 25 years ago, and discovered in the first year that one third of was impenetrable; that the windmill had five firm rules concerning the layout of the garden; that over 40 trees wereContinue reading “Visit to Impington Mill Garden”
Garden Tour and Social Event: Abbots Ripton Hall
This event has now passedBy kind permission of Lord and Lady De Ramsey Abbots Ripton Hall is a late 18C/ early 19C country house, set in eight acres of garden, including herbaceous borders, an old-fashioned rose circle, a Mediterranean grey border, rare trees, follies designed by Peter Foster, closely-mown lawns, a river and a five-acreContinue reading “Garden Tour and Social Event: Abbots Ripton Hall”
Guided Tour – Bridge End Garden, Saffron Walden
This event has now passed Bridge End Garden was created around 1840 by Francis Gibson, a local Quaker businessman who also built the Fry Art Gallery. Francis’ daughter Elizabeth married Lewis Fry of Bristol and, in 1918, the Fry family leased the Garden to the local council. Over time, Bridge End Garden fell into neglectContinue reading “Guided Tour – Bridge End Garden, Saffron Walden”
Fitzwilliam Museum Guided Tour
Floral and other Plant Decoration on European Pottery and Porcelain 1550-1900:a Selection from the Fitzwilliam’s Collections This event has now passed The Tour will cover pottery and porcelain in relation to gardening and flower arranging, and to the passion for botanical and other floral decoration which developed during the 17th to early 19th centuries. In this context,Continue reading “Fitzwilliam Museum Guided Tour”
Zoom Talk: Dr Twigs Way
Wednesday 18 January 2023 from 7:30pmThis event has now passed Title A Garden Historian’s Paradise: Menton and the Riviera. Abstract Since the Victorian era, Menton with its unique climate, has attracted artists, plant collectors, and garden designers. Many of their gardens survive, whilst others are currently being restored. This talk will explore a range ofContinue reading “Zoom Talk: Dr Twigs Way”
Live Talk: Dr Laura Mayer
Dr Laura Mayer – 2022 CGT Christmas Lecturer Thursday 8 December 2022 from 11:00amThis event has now passed Title The Society of Dilettanti: bacchanalian antics and building the Antique. Abstract The Grand Tour with its ancient ruins and sun-drenched landscapes became an educational rite of passage for the classically trained. This lively lecture considers howContinue reading “Live Talk: Dr Laura Mayer”
Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust 