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08/06/2025 – 12/06/2025 @ All Day – Our holiday next year is to East Yorkshire, a part of the country which is perhaps less well-known. However, it has some interesting and varied gardens – some of these may be familiar to our members, others will be a surprise. There is also the added attraction of staying by the seaside in Scarborough. The […]
15/07/2025 @ 11:45 am – 4:00 pm – Elton Hall and Gardens near Peterborough, PE8 6SH By own transport, meeting in the car park of Bosworth’s Garden Centre 11.45am “The gardens are fabulous and the house, with that beautiful drawing room, quite breathtaking” Norfolk Gardens Trust 2022 Elton Hall lies in unspoilt parkland, where a house has stood since the 12th century. Since […]
07/09/2025 – 08/09/2025 @ All Day – The trip involves an overnight stay, in Abbey Hotel, Malvern. This enables us to see gardens further away without too much coach travel. Last year we had a very successful trip to Suffolk gardens. This year we are heading to the Malverns: Please note, departure time from Leicester Bowls Club is 07:45 on Sunday 7th […]
14/09/2025 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – “Leicester Old and New” A walk lead by the Trust’s Chairman, Stephen Barker looking at features from Roman Times to the Present Day. Sunday, 14th September 2025 Starting from Magazine Square by the Magazine. (The Magazine stands opposite the junction of Southgates, Oxford St and Newarke Street) I am sure you will all have favourite places […]
16/10/2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Timothy Mowl’s lavishly illustrated lecture looks at the ornamental grounds that were laid out around the skirts of Regency houses, their eclecticism – classical, Gothic, Indian, Chinese – reflected in the exuberant gardens that surrounded them. The gardens are characterised by exuberant formal parterres, jewelled island beds of graduated flowers, frothy basket-work borders, shrubberies laced […]
13/11/2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Message from our Chairman As we are heading to the end of October bringing Halloween and then Bonfire Night it is a reminder that we are fast approaching the end of our programme for 2025 with the Friends Evening on Thursday, 13th November at Leicester Bowls Club meeting at 7.30pm. As many of you will know, […]
18/01/2026 @ 10:45 am – 4:30 pm – Hoby Village Hall (LE14 3DT) Sunday, 18th January 2026 Own transport – please do not park in the pub car park Following the success of the Winter Lunch and Film, we have decided to repeat the format of a film and lunch, in Hoby Village Hall, catered by Mrs Bridges. Last time the film, Swede […]
24/02/2026 @ 10:25 am – 5:25 pm – Departing by coach from Glebe Road, LE2 2LD at 10.25am “Lord and Lady Heseltine have created a garden of major importance at Thenford, one of the most impressive, varied and interesting to have been made over the last forty years anywhere in the world” Charles Quest-Ritson, Country Life, 2019 Michael and Anne Heseltine have been […]
12/03/2026 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm – Image: Bradgate House as it may have looked. Reconstruction by De Montfort University Almost everyone in Leicestershire is familiar with Bradgate House & the story of the ill-fated Lady Jane Gray, the nine-day Queen. In this talk Rachel Small introduces us to the Grey family of the 18th century & more particularly their diet. Using […]
19/04/2026 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Afternoon Lecture Sir Roderick Floud on “Water, Fire, Light and Air: What Garden Technology has done for us”, followed by a full English tea Sunday 19th April 2025 2.00pm Hoby Village Hall (LE14 3DT) (Please do not park in the pub car park) Image: Archer Pavilion, Wrest Park Sir Roderick Floud, author of An Economic […]