An important aspect of the Trust is our Events Programme. We run a series of lectures, visits and social events throughout the year, to which guests are always welcome. These can include visits to sites where public access is limited.
We have garden visits throughout the year, spring and autumn lectures and a “Celebrity Lecture” at Leicester University. Previous speakers at this lecture have included Kim Wilkie, Chris Beardshaw, James Alexander Sinclair and Troy Scott Smith, to name but a few.
We also have an annual garden visiting holiday and two purely social events each year. See recent past events here. These contribute to our original aim when setting up the Trust to be a welcoming group.
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22/01/2023 10:45 am - 4:00 pm |
Winter lunch and film
Hoby & District Village Hall, Melton Mowbray Leicestershire |
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25/02/2023 8:00 am - 7:00 pm |
Coach trip: Evenley Woods Garden and lunch at the Red Lion.
Coach pick outside Leicester Botanic Gardens, Leicester |
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23/03/2023 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm |
Spring Lecture : "Why wild gardening is important" by Dr Kate Moore
Leicester Bowling Club, Leicester |
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23/04/2023 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
Afternoon Lecture “Gardening for the 21st Century" followed by a full tea
Hoby & District Village Hall, Melton Mowbray Leicestershire |
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21/05/2023 - 22/05/2023 All Day |
Coach trip to RHS Bridgewater, overnight in hotel and Thornbridge Hall on the return
Coach pick outside Leicester Botanic Gardens, Leicester |
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05/07/2023 All Day |
Coach trip to Kiftsgate Court Gardens
Coach pick outside Leicester Botanic Gardens, Leicester |
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20/08/2023 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
Guided walk round Grace Dieu with The Friends of Grace Dieu |
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19/10/2023 7:30 pm - 9:15 pm |
Autumn Lecture: Chrysanthemum by Triggs Way
Leicester Bowling Club, Leicester |
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23/11/2023 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Chris Beardshaw gives our Annual Lecture on The English Garden at Leicester University
sir bob burgress building, Leicester Leicestershire |
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07/12/2023 7:30 pm - 9:15 pm |
Friends Evening
Leicester Bowling Club, Leicester |
News and Past Events
Trip to Kelmscott Manor and Buscot Park
The weather was perfect and 28 members had a very successful trip to Kemscott Manor and Buscot Park near Lechlade. It was and early start at 8:00am but this enabled us to spend more time there. Kelmscott Manor Kelmscott Manor has had a major restoration. The following is taken from the Observer on 26th March 2022 and describes some of the changes that we saw: For William Morris, the Oxfordshire village of Kelmscott was “heaven…
Annual 2022 Lecture: Bridgewater Garden: Horticulture, Landscape and Wildlife
We were very lucky to have Marcus Chilton-Jones the curator of the new RHS Garden Bridgewater giving this lecture. Around 120 people enjoyed a fantastic presentation on the development and future of Bridgewater. This is an important event for raising funds for our education programme. We have not got all the costs in yet but anticipate making at least £500. Thanks to all of you who attended and helped sell tickets. A few of his…
Village walk round Mountsorrell led by Janet Spavold followed by full afternoon tea 2022
28 friends joined this walk. The sun stayed out and Janet gave us a great explanation of the development of Mountsorrell. The town developed around a major transport route which required 32 large coaching inns to service the travellers. The town was also divided by two manors. The North Manor was gifted by William the Conqueror to his nephew who developed the manor and many very large houses remain today and were pointed out to…
Visit to Batsford Arboretum and Sezincote 2022
Batsford Arboretum Click on the photos to enlarge them: Sezincote Click on the photos to enlarge them:
Visit to Westbrooke House and Cottesbrooke 2021
Click on the photos to enlarge them: Westbrooke House Cottesbrooke
Guided walk of Thrussington 2021
I always enjoy our annual village walk and now, when I drive through some of the ones we have looked at, I feel a certain sense of satisfaction of knowing something of their past. Janet Spavold, whose background is in medieval and local history, lead us on a walk through Thrussington last Sunday. She took us to a series of cottages and houses dating from the medieval to a slightly incongruous Arts and Crafts house of the…
Visit to RHS Bridgewater
This is a very intriguing photograph of new RHS garden, Bridgewater, which the L.R.G,T. is due to on Auguest 12th 2021 . For obvious reasons this year’s visit had to be cancelled. It was also unfortunate that we we had to cancel the Hoby tea this year, when Marcus Clinton Jones, the then recently appointed Head gardener was to be the speaker. However this photograph (click on image for a full size image) has wetted…
Winter trip to Chippenham Park 2020
Our winter trip was to Chippenham Park in Cambridgeshire. This is a garden in winter which is well worth seeing, it has been said to have the best display of snowdrops in East Anglia, I can vouch for that, and there are many other species of plants and shrubs with winter interest. A good lunch at a nearby pub, tea and cake before we went home made it a perfect winter day out. Seems like…
Winter Lunch and a film
When I realised that I was going to miss the only showing of the Piet Oudolf, film, “Five Seasons”, in Leicester, in June 2019 I was determined that we would include it in our programme at some point. The winter lunch seemed a good opportunity, as it was to be held in Hoby Village Hall with Mrs Bridges as caterer. After some difficulty Steve managed to get hold of it, not easy. It was shown…
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