Programme

Saturday 13 December 2025
Churchill College CB3 0DS
2:00pm for 2:30pm start

Live talk: hosted by the Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage Group at the Club Room, Churchill College, Storey’s Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. The owner of Spicesotic Plants, a small family business in Essex with a passion for orchids, will present Orchids by Spicesotic. Guest entry £5, payable at the door. Beverages can be purchased from the College Café Bar (Buttery) using card payment only.

Saturday 10 January 2026
Village Hall Madingley CB23 8AB
2:00pm – 4:30pm

AGM & talk: the Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage Group will hold their Annual General Meeting at the Village Hall, Madingley CB23 8AB. The AGM will start at 2:00pm and will be followed by a talk by Ángela Cano (left), Deputy Curator of CU Botanic Garden. Ángela will present Why do we need to keep exploring in the 21st century? PH members free, guests £5, payable at the door.

^{Galanthus elwesii – photo © Monksilver Nursery}
Wednesday 21 January 2026
Coton Village Hall CB23 7PL
10:30am for 11:00am

Live talk: by Joe Sharman, founder of Monksilver Nursery, on snowdrops. As well as running the nursery, Joe has written, lectured and broadcast extensively on horticulture, plant collecting and, especially, snowdrops. Doors open for tea/coffee at 10:30am with the talk following at 11:00am. There will also be an opportunity to purchase snowdrops. Entries £10 for CGT and PHS members/£12 guests.

^{Roman villa garden from the Bardo, Tunis} Tuesday 2 December 2025 Coton Village Hall CB23 7PL Doors open 11:00am	Christmas Lecture: we’re delighted to welcome the accomplished writer, broadcaster and lecturer, Gillian Hovell (‘The Muddy Archaeologist’), who will deliver our Margaret Helme Christmas Lecture, The Gardens of Pompeii Unearthed, in the Village Hall at Coton. The talk will be accompanied by seasonal refreshments. Entries £13 for CGT and PHS members; guests £15.
^{Dr Liz Lake, founder of Liz Lake Associates} Saturday 15 November 2025 Hilton VH, Grove End, PE28 9PF Coffee from 11:00am	AGM & Lecture: will be held on 15 November at Hilton Village Hall, Grove End, Hilton PE28 9PF. Click here for Google map directions, or download directions here. Parking is available outside the Village Hall. We are delighted that Dr Liz Lake (left), founder of the eponymous firm of landscape architects, will present Is there nothing new under the sun? discussing how the key characteristics of historic landscapes are reinterpreted in contemporary landscape design. Doors open 11:00am with the AGM at 11:30. The talk will start around 12:00noon followed by a light lunch. The AGM is free to attend but entry to the talk and lunch is £13 for both members and guests. Further details here.
^{Three stunning clemates bred by Raymond Evison} Saturday 15 November 2025 William Collyn Centre Girton CB3 0GP 2:00pm for 2:30pm start	Max Walters Memorial Lecture: hosted by the Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage Group at the William Collyn Centre, Wellbrook Way, Girton, Cambridge, CB3 0GP. Raymond Evison CBE VMH FLS FCI Hort., founder of the prestigious Guernsey Clematis Nursery Ltd and Vice-President of RHS, will present Clematis: Past, Present and Future. Entry £12 for PHS and CGT members, £15 for guests. Prior booking is required by email to Rosemary Buisseret; please give your membership status in the email.
^{Sir Frederick Gibberd} Thursday 16 October 2025 The Gibberd Garden 10:20am for 10:30am	Visit: to The Gibberd Garden, Marsh Lane, Harlow, CM17 0NA. Sir Frederick Gibberd was an architect, town planner and landscape designer particularly known for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and the new town of Harlow. His house and garden display his personal collection of art and sculpture. Meet in the car park at 10:20am before coffee/tea and biscuits at 10:30am. After an opening talk, we will visit the Gibberd rooms before making a self-guided tour of the sculpture garden, armed with maps and listings. Further details can be found here. Members £15/ guests £17, booking deadline 12 October.
^{National Dahlia Collection near Penzance} Saturday 11 October 2025 The Delanoy Education Room, Denny Abbey & Farmland Museum, Ely Road, Waterbeach CB23 9PQ 2:00pm for 2:30pm	Talk by Kim O’Brien: From tuber to vase: Growing dahlias as cut flowers. Kim is a gardener, grower and floral designer at a top studio in Cambridge. She has hosted floristry workshops for BBC Gardeners World and a regular speaker at Gardeners World shows. Kim is a regular contributor to local radio and a columnist for Amateur Gardening Magazine. Her passion is growing and showing dahlias; she grows over 200 varieties at her home, field and allotment. Members free, guests £3: to book please email Richard Gant by 8 October.
^{Hexham Bandstand, July 2025} Tuesday 23 September 2025 Chez Gin Warren From 2:30pm	Journals Group: the next quarterly meeting will take place at Gin Warren’s home in Newnham on Tuesday 23 September, starting at 2:30pm. This time, the group will discuss any writings you can find by the 2018 CGT Christmas Lecturer, Paul Rabbitts, on bandstands. An example is his book, but any of his writings will serve equally well as background material. If you are absolutely stuck, there is an account of his Christmas Lecture in Newsletter 46, pp3-4. Entry free but please email Gin Warren to reserve your place.
^{Gardeners in Girton Orchard, 1937 (courtesy Girton College archive ref.: GCPH 10/20/33)} Tuesday 2 September 2025 Girton College CB3 0JG from 1:00pm	Visit: to Girton College Orchard. Thomas Bayliss-Smith will lead us on a guided tour of the orchard and its bee enclosure, outlining its fascinating history and identifying the different ancient varieties to be found. There will also be a selection of fresh apples and six different apple juices to try. Afterwards, we can explore the grounds at leisure. Parking is available in the Mares Run car park, off Girton Road, CB3 0JG. The tour will start at 1:00pm from the Mares Run carpark. Entries are £7 (members) / £9 (guests). As the event is now fully booked, we will open a waiting list.
^{Sustainable mowing at Arlington Court, NT} ^{Leckhampton in 2016} Tuesday 5 August 2025 King’s College & Corpus Christi, Leckhampton	Double visit: to King’s College Lawn Cutting and the grounds at Corpus Christi’s Leckhampton: Tuesday 5 August. After our 2024 Christmas Lecture, Steve Coghill, Kings College Head Gardener, will show us the college gardens and a team of heavy horses cutting the wild-flower meadow. Meet at the Kings Parade Porters Lodge at 11:00am. Following a self-organised lunch (suggestions here), we re-convene at 2:30pm at the Corpus Christi Leckhampton carpark (location to be advised), where Corpus Head Gardener Andy Pullin will show us the Leckhampton gardens. Members £10, guests £12. Further details, including suggested logistics, can be found here. NB: a waiting list is in operation.
^{SW Front of Bourn Hall IVF Clinic} Saturday 12 July 2025 Bourn Hall CB23 2TN This event has been cancelled	We regret to say that we are not able to offer our Study Day on 12 July as previously planned. The CGT Events Group will explore possibilities for presenting elements of the programme on other occasions. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and we shall refund all pre-booked entries. Full details can be found here.
^{Bourn Mill – photo Kate Armstrong} Thursday 19 June 2025 Mill Cottage, Bourn CB23 2SU From 2:00pm	Visit: to the oldest windmill in the country and the private gardens of CGT member, Kate Armstrong at The Mill Cottage, Caxton Road, Bourn CB23 2SU. Kate and Bill took on the cottage, gardens and 6 acres of meadows 35 years ago. Kate also volunteers with the Bourn Windmill team. Meet at 2.00pm for cold drinks, then split into garden tours led by horticulturalist and garden designer Rovena Postol, and mill tours led by experienced guides, before enjoying a relaxing afternoon tea in private gardens overlooking the mill. Members £12, guests £14. See here for further information and logistics.
^{Yucca utahensis McKelvey. © C Smith} Sunday 8 June 2025 ‘Spring View’, Burwell CB25 0HF 12:00 noon to 5:00pm	Open Gardens: an open day, as part of the NGS scheme, to view the National Plant Collection of Yuccas. ‘Spring View’ will be open as one of several Burwell Village Gardens. Plant sales at some locations and home-made teas at Isaacson’s. Home-made cakes include gluten- and nut-free options. Adults £8, children free.
^{Holywell Hall – photo Hannah Duffy} Wednesday 21 May 2025 Holywell, Stamford PE9 4DT From 2:00pm	Visit: to the park and private gardens of the Grade II* Holywell Hall in Lincolnshire (Holywell, Stamford PE9 4DT). Holywell is a well-preserved 18C landscape park with many outstanding neo-Classical features. The gardens and park have been carefully renovated in recent years. We will have an introductory talk by Steffie Shields, well known expert in 18C landscape design, and the Head Gardener will talk about the gardens today. The visit will finish with afternoon tea. Members £18, guests £20. See here for full details and logistics. Booking has now closed.
^{South Marine Park, courtesy Fabulous North} Thursday 24 April 2025 Chez Gin Warren From 2:45pm	Journals Group: the next quarterly meeting will take place at Gin Warren’s home in Newnham on Thursday 24 April, starting at 2:45pm. The group will discuss an article by Abigail Carr, ‘A park in which beauty and pure air could be united’: South Shield’s Marine Park and late nineteenth-century conceptions of health and wellness. Garden History, 52:2, p196-209. This was Ms Carr’s successful entry for the Mavis Batey Essay prize in 2023. Entry free but please email Gin Warren to reserve your place.
Saturday 12 April 2025 William Collyn Centre Girton CB3 0GP 2:00pm – 4:30pm	Live talk: hosted by the Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage Group at the William Collyn Centre, Wellbrook Way, Girton, Cambridge, CB3 0GP. James Smallwood, who has grown auriculas for more than twenty years, will present Meticulous Auriculas. Entry £5, payable at the door, includes tea/coffee on arrival.
Monday 7 April 2025 10, Cambridge Road CB24 9NU Coffee & biscuits from 10:30am	Visit: to the delightful garden of CGT member Pippa Temple at 10, Cambridge Road, Impington CB24 9NU (look for the windmill!). Pippa and Steve took on the garden and its windmill 25 years ago and, together with their volunteers, they will guide us on a voyage of both rediscovery and exploration. Meet at 10:30am for coffee and biscuits followed by tours of the garden led by Pippa’s volunteers. Parking on-street. Bookings have now closed. Full details, including logistics, are here.
^{East front, Raynham Hall. Sketch Edmund Prideaux, c1725. Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.} Thursday 27 March 2025 Online Zoom talk from 6:00pm	Zoom talk by Dr Louise Crawley, entitled ‘Free from all walls’: the evolution of the designed landscape at Raynham Hall, Norfolk c.1700-1735. Dr Crawley is a Historic Landscapes Research Consultant and has collaborated closely with Prof. Tom Williamson at the University of East Anglia. Online bookings can be made via Eventbrite: £6 per Zoom seat for CGT and Plant Heritage members; £8 for guests. A recording of the talk will be available to registered attendees afterwards. For further background to the talk and our speaker, please click here.
Thursday 13 February 2025 Coton Village Hall CB23 7PL From 11:00am	Talk by CGT Patron and former Director of CUBG, Prof. John Parker, entitled Trees Today: increasing delight, increasing despair. The talk will be held in a new venue for CGT: Coton Village Hall, 56 High St CB23 7PL, where there is good parking both outside the hall and on-street. The talk will be accompanied by a sale of books, kindly donated by member Marguerite Sassoon, with proceeds going to the Trust’s activities. Entry £8 members and £10 guests. For further details on the event, including travel directions, please click here.
Saturday 11 January 2025 William Collyn Centre Girton CB3 0GP 2:00pm start	Annual General Meeting: hosted by the Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage Group at the William Collyn Centre, Wellbrook Way, Girton, Cambridge, CB3 0GP. The AGM will start at 2:00pm. After the meeting, at 2.30pm, Gwen Hines, the new Plant Heritage CEO (left), and Lucy Pitman, Plant Conservation Advisor, will give an overview on recent developments, shows and updates on the conservation work. Entry £5, payable at the door, includes tea/coffee on arrival.
Tuesday 7 January 2025 Chez Gin Warren From 2:30pm	Journals Group: the next quarterly meeting will take place on Tuesday 7 January, starting at 2:30pm. The group will discuss the book Behind the Privet Hedge, by Michael Gilson. Each discussion is limited to eight people and the location of the January meeting will be confirmed by Gin Warren. Entry free but please email Gin Warren to reserve your place and to be advised of the address details.

Saturday 14 December 2024 William Collyn Centre Girton CB3 0GP 2:00pm for 2:30pm start	Christmas Social with Games: hosted by the Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage Group at the William Collyn Centre, Wellbrook Way, Girton, Cambridge, CB3 0GP. Full details to follow.
^{A bee in King’s wildflower meadow.} ^{Photo by Geoff Moggridge.} Tuesday 3 December 2024 Keynes Theatre, King’s College From 11:00am	Christmas Lecture: we’re delighted to have King’s College Head Gardener, Steve Coghill, who will deliver the Christmas Lecture, 1441 and all that, a potted history of the landscapes and gardens of Kings College, from Henry VI to Charles III which will take place in the Keynes Lecture Theatre at King’s (see 3D college map here). The talk will start at 11:00am and will be accompanied by seasonal refreshments. Members £13, guests £15. Bookings have now closed for this event.
Saturday 9 November 2024 William Collyn Centre Girton CB3 0GP 2:00pm for 2:30pm start	Max Walters Memorial Lecture: hosted by the Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage Group at the William Collyn Centre, Wellbrook Way, Girton, Cambridge, CB3 0GP. Bunny Guinness, landscape architect, broadcaster and panellist on Radio 4’s GQT, will present Plants in my Best Garden Designs. Entry £12 for PHS and CGT members, £17 for guests. Prior booking required via this ticket application form (please state if CGT member); further details from Rosemary Buisseret.
Saturday 2 November 2024 Hilton Village Hall PE28 9PF AGM at 11:30am	AGM & Lecture (new venue): will be held at Hilton Village Hall, Grove End, Hilton PE28 9PF. Click here for Google map directions, or download directions here. Parking is available outside the Village Hall. The AGM will start at 11:30am and will be followed by a talk, A Renaissance Garden in Bassingbourn, Cambs. by our new Patron, Prof. Susan Oosthuizen, at about 12:00 noon. AGM papers will be sent out prior to the event. AGM free; talk and light lunch £13 for members and guests. Please book by email here.
Saturday 12 October 2024 William Collyn Centre Girton CB3 0GP 2:00pm for 2:30pm start	Live talk: hosted by the Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage Group at the William Collyn Centre, Wellbrook Way, Girton, Cambridge, CB3 0GP. Dr Gwenda Kyd (pictured left) will present Incredible Edible (and Drinkable) Plants. Dr Kyd is both a chemist and a writer with a passion for plants. She loves learning about new plants and sharing their stories through writing and giving talks. Gwenda has studied herbal medicine and other plant-based therapies, and has written two books about plants and their uses. Entry £5, payable at the door, includes tea/coffee on arrival. Please note new venue!
Wednesday 9 October 2024 Hilton Village Hall PE28 9PF From 2:30pm	Live talk: by CGT Council member and avid researcher, Gin Warren entitled Meet the Book Manufactory of Bayswater. The talk will deliver everything you wanted to know about JC Loudon, his family and his enterprises but were always too afraid to ask. Gin will deliver her talk at Hilton Village Hall, PE28 9PF starting at 2:30pm. The talk will also trial simultaneous live-streaming by Zoom. Entries £6 for members and £7 for guests. Full details may be found here.
^{Carte de visite of Alexander Forsyth.} ^{J. Greer/RHS Lindley Collections, Public domain} Monday 23 September 2024 Chez Gin Warren From 2:45pm	Journals Group: the next quarterly meeting will take place at Gin Warren’s house to discuss an article by Jonathan Pointer from Garden History, 2024, 52(1), 60-76: I looked out for my materials in case I should want them another day’: Alexander Forsyth (1809-1885), gardener and prolific contributor to the 19C horticultural press. Each discussion is limited to eight people. Entry is free but please email Gin Warren to reserve your place and to be advised of directions to the venue.
Thursday 5 September 2024 Darwin College gardens From 11:00am	Visit: to the gardens of Darwin College, Silver Street CB3 9EU, the final college garden in Charles Malyon’s series of articles, featured in the May 2024 Newsletter. Named after the family of Charles Darwin, the college became the first to be founded, in 1964, exclusively for graduate students. Darwin backs on to an attractive part of the river Cam, where two small, picturesque islands give it a uniquely charming atmosphere. Meet at 11:00am at the Porter’s Lodge for a tour, led by Head Gardener Derrienne Bell, of the grounds and islands made famous by Gwen Raverat in her book A Cambridge Childhood. Members £6, guests £8.
Thursday 1 August 2024 Elgood’s Brewery, Wisbech PE13 1LW and Peckover House gardens From 11:00am	Visit: to Elgoods’ Brewery Garden in Wisbech PE13 1LW. Ample parking. Meet at 11:00am for cakes (with coffee/tea available to purchase), followed by a guided tour of the 4-acre garden, incorporating specimen trees, herbaceous borders, a lake, rockery, water features, exotic house and herb garden. Enjoy a bring-your-own picnic lunch in the garden at Peckover House (NT) and a tour of the Victorian gardens led by the Head Gardener. Cost: £12.50 members/ £15 guests to include both tours and cakes at Elgoods. Optional Peckover house entry: free to NT members, £10 for non-members.
Wednesday 10 July 2024 Abbots Ripton Hall PE28 2PQ 4:00pm – 7:30pm	Visit and summer social: in the gardens of Abbots Ripton Hall PE28 2PQ at the kind invitation of Lord and Lady De Ramsey. A tour of the gardens, designed by Humphrey Waterfield and Lanning Roper, will be led by Head Gardener Gavin Smith, and followed by a bring-your-own picnic on the lawn by the lake. Cost: £20 for members and guests to include garden tour and a glass of Prosecco/ soft drink. For full details, please click here.
Monday 24 June Trumpington Hall CB2 9LH 2:00pm	Visit: to Trumpington Hall Gardens, Grantchester Road CB2 9LH at the kind invitation of Victoria Pemberton. The Hall is grade II listed and features an early-19C landscaped park associated with a country house built in 1710 and remodelled around 1826. The gardens comprise a large kitchen garden enclosed by walls, of which some are crinkle-crankle built before 1830, formal rose beds and three canalised fishponds. Ample parking available. CGT members £6, guests £8.
Sunday 9 June 2024 ‘Spring View’, Burwell CB25 0HF 12:00 noon to 5:00pm	Open Gardens: an open day, as part of the NGS scheme, to view the National Plant Collection of Yuccas. ‘Spring View’ will be open as one of several Burwell Village Gardens. Home-made teas available at Isaacson’s. Adults £8, children free.
Tuesday 4 June Location to be confirmed 2:00pm – 3:00pm	Journals Group: the next quarterly meeting will discuss an article from Garden History, 2023, 51(2), 167-182: ‘Collegiate Prospects’: the University of Oxford’s experiments in the ’natural’ taste, 1739-82, by Toby Parker and Mark Laird. Each discussion is limited to eight people and the location of the June meeting will be confirmed by Gin Warren. Entry free but please email Gin Warren to reserve your place and to be advised of the venue. Contact Gin or admin for a copy of the article.
Wednesday 15 May 2024 Bridge End Garden, Saffron Walden Meet 1:45pm for 2:00pm start	Guided tour: of Bridge End Garden, Saffron Walden, by Garden Trustee and CGT member Liz Lake. Tour will start at Close Garden, at SW end of St Mary’s Churchyard, opposite 5 High Street. The tour lasts about 75 mins and ends at The Maze, after which there is an opportunity to visit the Fry Gallery (closes 5:00pm). If there are more than 20 attendees, we will organise two alternating groups (garden and gallery). CGT members £5, guests £7, payable by BACS (see below) with email to admin. Further information here.
Saturday 13 April 2024 Madingley Hall, Madingley CB23 8AQ 2:00pm for 2:30pm start	Live talk: hosted by the Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage Group at Madingley Hall. Philip Oostenbrink will present The Jungle Garden from his eponymous book, focusing on hardy jungle plants and leaf combinations. Philip is Head Gardener at Walmer Castle, where he has planted a jungle garden in the moat. His home jungle garden has featured on BBC Gardener’s World. Philip holds five National Plant Collections and has exhibited at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show. Entry £3, payable at the door, includes tea/coffee on arrival.
Thursday 11 April 2024 Corpus Christi College CB2 1RH Tours begin 10:30am	Two guided tours: at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Tour 1: of the Parker Library and a selection of its important manuscripts led by one of the librarians. Tour 2: of the gardens in the college courts, led by the Head Gardener Andy Pullin. Meet at the Porters’ Lodge from 10:15am for a start at 10:30am prompt. CGT members £12, guests £14, payable by BACS (see below) with email to admin.
Saturday 9 March 2024 Madingley Hall, Madingley CB23 8AQ 2:00pm for 2:30pm start	Live talk: hosted by the Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage Group at Madingley Hall. Anne Tweddle will present Englehart’s Daffodils. One of the greatest daffodil breeders of all time, the Rev. Engleheart introduced some 700 named varieties between 1889 and 1923. Although most of these have been lost over the years, a brand new National Collection in England is hoping to find and preserve as many as they can. Entry £3, payable at the door, includes tea/coffee on arrival.
^{‘Watering Place, Juan Fernandez’ from Maria Callcott’s book ‘Journal of a Residence in Chile’ (1824).} Thursday 7 March 2:15pm – 3:30pm	Live talk: Dr Twigs Way will add flesh to our set of Newsletter articles featuring female gardeners with ‘I narrowly avoided becoming a slattern’ – an exploration of female plant-hunters. The lecture will take place in Hemingford Abbots Village Hall; doors will open at 2:00pm for a start at 2:15pm. CGT and PHS members £12/ guests £14, to include tea and cake after the talk. Please note we are trialling Eventbrite for this event, so please book through this link and contact admin if you have any issues. Further details on the event can also be found here.
Saturday 10 February 2024 Madingley Hall, Madingley CB23 8AQ 2:00pm for 2:30pm start	Live talk: hosted by the Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage Group at Madingley Hall. Tim Fuller will give a talk titled Unexpectedly Hardy, tempting you with a range of plants that you wouldn’t think are hardy, but are (or at least are with a good mulch!) Tim is a member of both RHS Floral Trials Panel and Stipa Trial Panel, which recommend plants for the Award of Garden Merit. Entry £3, payable at the door, includes tea/coffee on arrival.
Thursday 8 Febuary 7:30pm – 8:45pm Zoom doors open at 7:15pm	Zoom talk: Mark Newman, NT archaeological consultant for Yorkshire and the Northeast, rediscovers enigmatic 17C/early 18C formal gardens at the important baroque mansion of Beningbrough in Finding lost gardens at Beningbrough Hall, while making a modern one. The talk is free to members of CGT and the Cambridgeshire group of the Plant Heritage Society. Guests are most welcome but we ask £4 per Zoom seat, payable by BACS (see below). Would members and guests please register with admin to receive the Zoom joining link. Further details here.
Tuesday 30 January Emmanuel College CB2 3AP 2:00pm – 3:30pm	Journal Discussion: a new CGT initiative – a Journals Group, meeting quarterly to discuss an article from the recent issue of Garden History. The first meeting will dig over Robert Marnock’s retirement project: Alexandra Park, Hastings, 1876-82. ’Superior to any park in any other seaside resort’ by Jan Woudstra. Each discussion is limited to eight people and the first will be held in Fiona’s, the cafe inside Emmanuel College. Entry free but please email Gin Warren to reserve your place.

Tuesday 12 December 2023 Storey’s Field Centre, Eddington From 11:00am	Live talk: the 2023 CGT Christmas Lecture will be held at Storey’s Field Centre, Eddington Avenue, Cambridge CB3 1AA. Prof. Richard (Dick) Selley, globally experienced geologist and author, will tell us about The Winelands of Britain: past, present & prospective, starting in Roman Britain and ending in Scotland, with a focus on how viticulture is affected by geology and climate. Abstract, speaker notes and parking information are here. Tickets, to include samples of English wines, are £12 for members/ £15 for guests, payable by BACS or at the door. To help us cater please email bookings by 8 December to admin.
Saturday 11 November 2023 Madingley Hall, Madingley CB23 8AQ 2:00pm for 2:30pm start	Live talk: hosted by the Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage Group at Madingley Hall. A leading arborist and broadcaster, Tony Kirkham MBE VMH FICFor is the former Head of Arboretum, Gardens & Horticulture Services, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and a widely published author. Tony will present the 10th Max Walters Memorial Lecture: Plants from the Edge of the World. Entry £12 for PHS and CGT members, £15 for guests. Prior booking required via this ticket application form (please state if CGT member); further details from Rosemary Buisseret.
Hugh Belsey, MBE Saturday 4 November 2023 Hilton Village Hall PE28 9PF From 11:00am	AGM & Margaret Helme Lecture: will be held at Hilton Village Hall, Grove End, Hilton PE28 9PF. Click here for Google map directions, or download directions here. Parking is available outside the Village Hall. Doors open 11:00am, the AGM will start at 11:30am followed by the Margaret Helme Lecture at approximately 12:00noon. Our speaker will be the curator, broadcaster and Gainsborough expert, Hugh Belsey MBE, who will present on An Artist’s View of Landscape Gardening. For a synopsis and speaker background, please click here.
Saturday 14 October 2023 Madingley Hall, Madingley CB23 8AQ 2:00pm for 2:30pm start	Live talk: hosted by the Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage Group at Madingley Hall. Nabil Ali is the Artist in Residence at Cambridge University Botanic Garden and is engaged upon a 14-month project, funded by the Arts Council England, entitled Dye – Nature, Myth and Climate. Nabil will talk about his project to rediscover mediaeval plant dyes using material from CUBG and the Madingley Hall Dye Border. Entry £3, payable at the door, includes tea/coffee on arrival.
Monday 14 August 2023 Elton Hall & Gardens PE8 6SH 10:45am for 11:00am	Guided tour of Elton Hall and self-guided tour of gardens. This is a complimentary event for CGT members and their guests by kind permission of Lady Proby. The magnificent hall dates from 1475 and has been the Proby family seat for 400 years. The current gardens are based on a 1911 design by A.H. Hallam Murray and have been completely restored and enhanced with new borders, hedges, topiary, an Orangery, Shell Seat, modern fountain and many interesting plants.
Thursday 13 July 2023 Churchill College CB3 0DS 2:00pm at the Porter’s Lodge	Guided tour of Churchill College gardens, led by John Moore, local broadcaster, author and Head of Grounds and Gardens at Churchill. John will show us courts, a parterre, wildflower areas, orchards, an orchid house, a garden named after alumna Xiaotian Fu, mixed beds and a large herbaceous border, pointing out en route the 20C sculptures and the collection of plants named after Churchill. Meet at the Porter’s Lodge at 2:00pm. Members £8, guests £10. Access and parking details can be found here.
Friday 23 June 2023 Hilton Village Hall PE28 9PF Picnic from 6:00pm in the hall if wet. Talk will start at 7:30pm	Summer Talk and Social: The CGT summer event will be held on Friday 23 June 2023 in the Village Hall, Grove End, Hilton, Huntingdon PE28 9PF. CGT Patron, Prof. Beverley Glover will provide members and guests with a fascinating talk at 7:30pm on Why are Flowers Different Colours? Bring a picnic to enjoy on the green from 6:00pm, or earlier if fine, with opportunities to visit the turf maze and the CGT-supported community garden. £12 for members and guests, to include a glass of summer sparkle or soft drink. Further details and maps are here.
Thursday 8 June 2023 Glebe House, Southill SG18 9LL From 10:30am	Visit to Glebe House, Southill, Biggleswade SG18 9LL. The garden, designed by Tom Stuart-Smith, contains large herbaceous borders, an old walled garden, an enclosed rose garden with thatched summer house, a shrub border area and a woodland area. There is also a sunken garden within a large, mature, yew hedge. The water feature has eight standard wisterias. Meet for coffee and home-made biscuits at 10:30am with garden tour to follow. Members £10, guests £12; bookings now closed.
Wednesday 19 April 2023 Fitzwilliam Museum CB2 1RB Meet at 10:45am	Guided visit: to see some of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s fine collection of floral and botanical decorated pottery and porcelain, from early Iznik ware, through 17C-19C English and Sèvres place settings, jardinières and pots-pourris. Our tour, entitled Floral and other Plant Decoration on European Pottery and Porcelain 1550-1900 – a selection from the Fitzwilliam’s Collections, will be led by curator Julia Poole and will include an opportunity to handle some of the items. Numbers are limited to one or two groups of 15: members £12/ guests £14: please book early to avoid disappointment. Further details here.
Saturday 15 April 2023 Madingley Hall, Madingley CB23 8AQ 2:00pm for 2:30pm start	Live talk: hosted by the Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage Group at Madingley Hall. Colin’s Choice by Colin Ward will be a hands-on talk with a selection of some of his rarities. Colin is a specialist nurseryman selling rarities, hardy exotics, tree ferns, bamboos, woodlanders and much more, at shows and fairs as well as on-line. Entry £3, payable at the door.
Monday 3 April 2023 Ousden House, Suffolk CB8 8TN 2:00pm – 5:00pm	Visit to Ousden House, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 8TN. Large garden with fine views over the surrounding country. Herbaceous borders, rose garden and lawns leading to Spring woodland and lake. Special features include a double crinkle-crankle yew hedge and a Moat Garden densely planted with hellebores, flowering shrubs and moisture-loving plants. Members £16/guests £18, to include a delicious tea.
Sustainable mowing at Arlington Court Saturday 18 March 2023 Hemingford Abbots Village Hall 10:00am – 3:30pm	Study Day at Hemingford Abbots Village Hall, High Street, PE28 9AH. Four experts will take our theme Garden Game-Changers: People and Climate to explore how game-changing people impacted gardens (and possibly the converse too!) over the past two hundred years, and how gardens might cope with 21C climate change. Take advantage of our uninflated entrance fees to hear the insights of our eminent speakers and enjoy a buffet lunch. Members £25, guests £30. For full details please click here.
Saturday 11 February 2023 Madingley Hall, Madingley CB23 8AQ 2:00pm for 2:30pm start	Live talk: hosted by the Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage Group, Michael Brown will present A Bouquet of Weeds. Mike Brown, a noted gardener, designer and college lecturer, has been involved in a number of garden projects, including the gardens at the Menagerie at Horton, Northants. He is especially noted for his research to recreate the mediaeval garden at the Prebendal Manor in Nassington. The talk is at Madingley Hall starting at 2:30pm. CGT members and guests are warmly welcome – entry £3, payable at the door.
18 January 2023 From 7:30pm	Zoom talk: if you feel in need of a January gloom-chaser, Dr Twigs Way will transport you to A Garden Historian’s Paradise: Menton and the Riviera free of any carbon footprint except for the electrons in your computer! Full details can be found here. To book, please send £4 by BACS to the CGT account (see below), and confirm by email to admin. The deadline for bookings is 12:00noon on Wednesday 18 January, and joining details will be sent shortly after.

Thursday 8 December 2022 From 11:00am	The 2022 CGT Christmas Lecture will be given at Hemingford Abbots Village Hall, High St., Hemingford Abbots PE28 9AH. We are delighted to welcome Dr Laura Mayer, garden history researcher and lecturer, whose talk The Society of Dilettanti: bacchanalian antics & building the Antique will no doubt intrigue both the serious garden historian and the dilettante. Full details here. Tickets, to include our traditional seasonal refreshments, £12 for members/ £15 for guests, payable by BACS or at the door. To help us cater please email bookings by 3 December.
Saturday 5 November 2022 From 11:00am	Annual General Meeting will be held at Fen Drayton Village Hall, Cootes Lane, Fen Drayton CB24 4SL. Coffee from 11:00am, the AGM will begin at 11:30am. We are pleased to announce that the acclaimed designer, writer and lecturer Andrew Sankey will give the post-AGM talk entitled The History of the Cottage Garden. A buffet lunch will follow at about 1:15pm. The AGM is free to attend; the lunch and talk are £12, payable by BACS or at the door.
Tuesday 11 October 2022 From 2:00pm	Visit to Ramsey Walled Garden. Park at Ramsey Rural Museum, Wood Lane Ramsey PE26 2XD. Enjoy the autumn colours at the walled garden, whose restoration was initiated by CGT and now features a magnificent glasshouse built with a legacy from former chair, John Drake. Tea and cake will be served in the garden. Entry £5 (pay on the day by card or by cash): please book by email to treasurer@cambridgeshiregardenstrust.org.uk.
Saturday 17 September 2022 From 1:45pm: tour(s) from 2:00pm, teas from 4:00pm	Visit, by bicycle if possible, to Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge CB2 3AP. Celebrate the arrival at Emmanuel College in 1928 by bicycle boys, Loyal Johnson and Sam Brewster, on their cycling tour of unforgettable British gardens. Cambridge Cycling Campaign members will join us for a tour of Emmanuel College gardens led by Brendon Sims, the Head Gardener. There will be tea and cake in the Old Library afterwards. Entry £5 (BACS payment details below): numbers are limited to 50 for this very special event.
Monday 18 July 2022 from 10:00am	Visit to Newnham College, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DF. Herbaceous borders, sunken rose garden, woodland nutwalk, knot garden, wildflower garden in the lovely setting of Basil Champneys’ red-brick ranges. Meet at Porter’s Lodge (no onsite parking). Guided tour of the gardens with opportunity to view archival material. Iris café available for those who would like refreshments. Entry: no charge for members, but £5 for guests as numbers are limited to 25.
Monday 18 July 2022 from 10:00am	Social evening at The Manor, Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon PE28 9BN. House built 1130’s. Gardens with moat, topiary, old roses, award-wining irises, herbaceous borders. Members and guests are invited to bring a picnic to enjoy in the grounds. Some rooms will be open for guests to explore. Entry, including a glass of wine or soft drink, £12 before 20 May, or £15 after 20 May, with last booking on 8 June. For full details on booking and parking, please click here.
Thursday 9 June 2022 From 11:00am	Visit to Easton Lodge gardens, Dunmow CM6 2BB. Harold Peto’s 1902 formal Italian garden design with tree glade and now-restored tree house. Well-stocked walled kitchen garden; ten champion trees, stumpery, Japanese rill and garden. Refreshments and guided tour, including the history of the garden and visit to the archive room. Entry £8.50. For details on booking and access, click here.
Tuesday 10 May 2022 From 11:00am	Visit to Titchmarsh House, Titchmarsh Northants NN14 3DA. Four-acre family garden developed over 45 years with collections of spring bulbs, magnolias, cherries, crab apples, peonies, irises and shrub roses. Refreshments on arrival and guided tour of the gardens, Members and guests £10 (going to charity). For further details on booking and how to find the garden, click here.
Tuesday 5 April 2022 From 11:00am	Visit to Moggerhanger Park, Park Road, Moggerhanger, Bedford MK44 3RW. Tour of Soane-designed house and of 33 acres of parkland and woodland, originally landscaped by Repton and extensively restored, with Head Gardener Tim Kirk. Meet for refreshments at 11:00am. Optional lunch (£10 on the day) may be pre-booked by 27 March 2022, followed by garden tour at 2:00pm. Member & guest entries £10. Please click here for full details on booking entry and lunch.
Saturday 12 March 2022 10:00am – 3:00pm	Study Day at Storey’s Field Centre, Eddington Avenue, Cambridge CB3 1AA. Our Study Day, inspired by the late Christopher Taylor, will explore the impact of archaeological methods in elucidating Garden History. Come and enjoy a lively discussion with our eminent speakers and relax over a light lunch. Members £25, guests £30. For full details click here.