Events and Outings
HGT's next event:
THE TRAVELLING SOUK
Coming to Stanstead Bury
Monday 30th November, 9.30 am – 3.30 pm
This is a very special day and a great fundraising event for the Trust where there will be an amazing selection of stalls with something for everyone and, with Christmas round the corner, it really is a wonderful opportunity to pick up a few presents. Please come and bring your friends, children most welcome.
The money raised at this event will support HGT’s educational work and our School Grounds Awards Scheme, open to all primary schools and which offers funding to help with setting up or further developing an outdoor classroom, school gardening club or a project which enhances school grounds for learning, for enjoyment and for wildlife.
Entry Fee is £5. Coffee and tea will be served throughout the day and a light lunch will be available. Directions: Stanstead Bury, Stanstead Abbots, Nr. Ware, SG12 8JZ. Follow B181 through Stanstead Abbots along the High Street and veer right into Roydon Road, Continue over the bridge with the A414 underneath, follow the special signs and take first left after the church.
Recent visits to gardens for Members have included:
Coton Manor Northamptonshire, Abbot's Ripton Hall and Childerley Hall Cambridgeshire, Great Fosters Surrey, Waltham Place Berkshire, Fermyn Woods Hall in Northamptonshire, Rousham Gardens in Bicester, Pettifers at Banbury, Chippenham Park near Newmarket, Great Comp in Sevenoaks, Squerryes Cout in Westerham, The Priory Stoke by Nayland and Hemingham Hall in Suffolk.
Fundraising events
We have musical evenings both indoors and out, bridge days in the winter months and plant fairs with stunning open gardens – as at Serge Hill, Abbots Langley, held jointly with the Hospice of St Francis, Berkhamsted. View pictures and write up
Lectures are held twice a year – at Ashridge near Berkhamsted and at Haileybury near Hertford with some exceptionally distinguished speakers :-
Jane Roberts, Librarian and Curator of the Print Room, The Royal Collection Windsor Castle, "Royal Landscape: The History of the Royal Parks at Windsor"
Dr. Peter Burman, Director of Conservation & Property Services, The National Trust for Scotland, "New Art, Old Landscapes. The Role of Contemporary Craftsmanship in Historic Gardens and Designed Landscapes"
James Bolton, Garden Designer and Historian, "From the Picturesque to Paxton: The Changing Style of Gardens in the early 19th Century"
Tom Stuart-Smith, Award winning Landscape Architect (six times gold winner at Chelsea and designer of the Queen's Jubilee Garden at Windsor Castle, "New Gardens Historic Landscapes. Articulating between old and new with inspiration from music, cell biology and cultural history to create new gardens that are contextual and modern"
Anna Pavord Gardening Correspondent of the Independent, "The Tulip"
Jennifer Potter, Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund King's College London and Reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement, "The Curious Gardeners: The lives and times of the John Tradescants"