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Updated: March 17th 2023
March 29th 2023 - 10.00 - 12.30
Location: Luton Hoo Estate Walled Garden
Location: Swiss Garden
Updated: March 16th 2023
Location: Howbury Hall
Location: Southill
Location: Swiss Garden, Old Warden
Last Update: January 1st 2023
Location: Swiss Garden
Updated: June 10th 2022
Location: Luton Hoo Walled Garden
Updated: June 5th 2022
Location: Howbury Hall
Location: Southill
Location: Luton Hoo Walled Garden
Location: Swiss Garden
Updated: June 5th 2022
Location:Swiss Garden
Photography by Darren Harbar Photography.
Updated: May 17th 2022
Location: Howbury Hall
Location: Zoom Online
Started on Tuesday March 2nd 2021 and various other days depending upon which suite of lectures you wish to attend.
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Updated: April 22nd 2021
Location: Webinar [Online]
Updated 22/04/2021
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Updated: March 28th 2021
Location: Zoom Online
Starting Tuesday January 5th 2021, Wednesday January 6th 2021, Thursday January 7th 2021, or Monday January 11th 2021 depending upon which suite of lectures you wish to attend
Updated 02/01/2021
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Updated: December 16th 2020
Added 18/12/2020
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Location: Zoom Online
Added 07/11/2020
Announced on August 18th 2020, The Improvement Garden at Stockwood Park, Luton now has protected status.
The Improvement Garden at Stockwood Park, Luton, Bedfordshire © Historic England Archive DP247684
The Improvement Garden was designed in the 1980s by Ian Hamilton Finlay. It’s the only complete garden remaining in England by the artist, poet and landscape designer.
The garden’s six sculptures and their setting integrate poetry, history and nature. Inspiration ranges from Greek mythology and Roman architecture to the grand landscape gardens of the 18th century.
Sculpture of Aphrodite at the Improvement Garden at Stockwood Park, Luton, Bedfordshire © Historic England Archive DP247690
The design is an example of Finlay’s collaboration with the sculptors and carvers he used in his later career.
The Improvement Garden is accessible via the Stockwood Discovery Centre.
The NGS is now offering Garden Tickets to various gardens across the country, currently releasing dates on a weekly basis.
The Gardens Trust is now offering online talks on topics and dates in August 2020 via the Zoom platform.
Location: around Bedfordshire
Steve Morris, Swiss Garden Andrew Grout, Woburn Abbey Gardens
Gary Hines, Stockwood Richard Webb, Jordans Mill Gardens
Added 10/05/2020
RHS members offered qualified free entry to the Swiss Garden from January 2nd 2020.
Location: Sandridge
Added 15/01/2020
Friday January 24th 2020.
Location: Swiss Garden
Location: London
Added 15/01/2020
Location: Stockwood Park, Luton
Added 15/01/2020
The Orchards East Project has extended its activities through to August 2020.
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Updated 11/03/2020
The Gardens Trust, in association with the Garden Museum, is offering a new nine week INTRODUCTION TO GARDEN HISTORY course starting in October 2019. Full details are below and by clicking on the link here to their website.
Named as Finalist at 2019 Horticulture Week Custodian Awards in the Best Partnership Category
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"Round and Round the Garden" - A Celebration of Horticulture in Art
Saturday April 6th 2019 until Sunday September 29th 2019 at The Higgins, Bedford, Castle Lane, Bedford, MK40 3XC
Entry free
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Also at The Higgins, Bedford a lunchtime lecture with Twigs Way - "Art and the Suburban Garden"
Wednesday May 22nd 2019 12 - 1pm; £5.90 [£4.70 concessions], booking essential
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As a member of Bedfordshire Gardens Trust, you will get a copy of the quarterly newsletter -
The Spring 2017 Newsletter is available now
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